Phoenix bank employee's 911 call adds to questions about role of race in reporter's detention

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Phoenix bank employee's 911 call adds to questions about role of race in reporter's detention
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Four months after a Wall Street Journal reporter was detained by Phoenix police, questions remain about the role his race played in the encounter.

Phoenix police release bodycam footage of the arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Dion Rabouin in November 2022 outside a Chase bank in Phoenix.A Chase bank employee in Phoenix, Arizona, who called 911 in November to report a person"harassing clients outside" revealed near the end of the call that the person had identified himself as a journalist.

"I have somebody that's been harassing clients outside, and asking them personal information, and we've asked them to leave the premises, and he refuses," the caller says."Is there a way I could have an officer come out and escort him off premises?"Your browser does not support theAfter being asked if the person is white, Black, Hispanic or Native, the bank employee says,"He's, like, Black. Maybe Native. I'm not sure. It's kind of hard to tell.

That investigation"is not yet completed," according to a statement from Donna Rossi, the Phoenix Police Department's communications director. He said he made an official complaint with the Phoenix Police Department immediately after the incident. Rabouin is one of 15 journalists nationally who were arrested or detained by police in 2022, according to theOf the 15, 12 — including Rabouin — were detained and then released without being processed, according to the database, which is maintained by Freedom of the Press Foundation and tracks attacks on the media.

Black people"don't get to relinquish their Blackness just because they own a press pass," Brown said."I don't think that we ever separate our Blackness from our journalism." "When I watch that interaction, it's hard not to see someone in Dion who's behaving completely reasonably, asking reasonable questions, trying to figure out what's going on, and an armed agent of the state refusing to engage with him in a kind of normal, human way," Lowery said.

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