[hncommenter13]

I believe your reading is incorrect. The police are not allowed to order journalists to leave the area or to "round them up." The police were given a legal order by a judge not to do this. They did it anyway, issuing an unlawful order as applied to journalists.

If the police can't themselves operate within the law they're sworn to uphold, why do they deserve any deference or respect?

[rogerdickey]

I’m saying the conversation should focus on whether or not the police were allowed to do this, not colorful language like “journalists being rounded up.”

[ub99]

You advocate not using colorful language while calling journalists “journos”?

[kergonath]

You might want that, but you can’t change the fact that they were.