Minnesota police arrest CNN reporter on air covering Minneapolis protests

Protesters use a barricade to try and break the windows of the Third Police Precinct yesterday in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during a protest over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, who died after a police officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes. Photo: Kerem Yucel / AFP via Getty Images

The Minnesota State Patrol arrested a CNN reporter reporting live on television early Friday morning while covering the Minneapolis protests, without giving any reason, and led him and three crew members away in handcuffs.

Black reporter Omar Jimenez had just shown a protester being arrested when about half a dozen white police officers surrounded him.