disturbing news from Minnesota.

within the past 24 hours, i've gotten word that my friends, the glassbeed collective, were detained and their equipment subsequently confiscated. as the story has trickled in from multiple phone calls, txt messages and emails. my other citizen journalism friends, the uptake, were there to capture the first press conference detailing the illegal actions taken by the Minneapolis Police Department.

the glassbeed collective is known around the world for documenting police brutality. over the past month, one of their videos was wrongly removed from youtube on a false copyright claim. they have also published a video of a cyclist being assaulted by an NYPD officer in Times Square. last week, they published another video of a brutal arrest in WIlliamsburg, Brooklyn. you can find more links within this Gothamist Article.