Two Daily Caller reporters were arrested while covering the protests in downtown Louisville

Two Daily Caller reporters — Jorge Ventura and Shelby Talcott — were arrested while covering the protests in downtown Louisville on Wednesday night:

Just got arrested by #Louisville PD. I will update everyone when I'm released.

— Jorge Ventura Media (@VenturaReport) September 24, 2020

Shelby Talcott captured the police moving in on video before getting arrested:

Police are corralling everyone in pic.twitter.com/e8IfsUSQpE

— Shelby Talcott (@ShelbyTalcott) September 24, 2020

It’s weird how this isn’t a bigger story, right? Where’s CNN and the other media outlets?

They have us all on the ground right now

— Shelby Talcott (@ShelbyTalcott) September 24, 2020

We are all on the ground right now and police are taking people and putting them in zip tie cuffs pic.twitter.com/eIJJF1t1Ub

— Shelby Talcott (@ShelbyTalcott) September 24, 2020

Current situation. #Louisville pic.twitter.com/jVH4xn4bZw

— Jorge Ventura Media (@VenturaReport) September 24, 2020

Daily Caller editor-in-chief Geoffrey Ingersoll was unsuccessful at getting the pair released and was told they will be “charged with two misdemeanors related to breaking curfew & unlawful assembly for their alleged failure to comply with police orders to disperse and for press to relegate themselves to an ‘observation area'”:

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I’ve now notified @LMPD that both @shelbytalcott and @VenturaReport were reporting for an accredited media outlet and were operating in the capacity of press. My expectation is that they will be swiftly released. https://t.co/BBa1b8yF1W

— Geoffrey Ingersoll (@GPIngersoll) September 24, 2020

Update: The Louisville doc tells me @ShelbyTalcott and @VenturaReport will be processed and charged like everyone else, despite my best efforts to alert official channels that they were operating in the capacity of press at a live news event. @LMPD

— Geoffrey Ingersoll (@GPIngersoll) September 24, 2020

Another update: @LMPD tells me @ShelbyTalcott and @JorgeVentura05 will be charged with two misdemeanors related to breaking curfew & unlawful assembly for their alleged failure to comply with police orders to disperse and for press to relegate themselves to an “observation area”

— Geoffrey Ingersoll (@GPIngersoll) September 24, 2020

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