article_snippet.sent: J.M. Giordano, a photo editor at Baltimore's City Paper, said Baltimore police beat him as him covered one of the protests in west Baltimore.
article_snippet.sent: A video posted to the newspaper's website Sunday shows at least two police officers in riot gear hitting and kicking him as the person filming screams, 'him's a photographer!
article_snippet.sent: Sait Serkan Gurbuz, a photographer with Reuters, said police detained him as him was shooting photographs of the scuffle.
article_snippet.sent: A statement from Reuters said police also cited Gurbuz for failure to obey orders. '
article_snippet.sent: We hope that Baltimore Police Department will dismiss the citation and, going forward, respect the First Amendment right of the press to lawfully take images in the public interest,' Reuters said.