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Placing him in chokehold and putting a gun to his head is a bit extreme, no? Security people seizing journalists' phones and deleting pictures seems to be pretty much routine. https://twitter.com/sethharpesq/status/1519849084286386177#m

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It’s war time there. The Russians may call it by other words, but hopefully we’d know better.

He may have been responsible for helping target and kill many civilians. He was asked to stop and he didn’t. Why didn’t they politely ask again, while maybe offering a cup of tea or something? It would be nice if they would have, but like we said it’s war time there.

> He may have been responsible for helping target and kill many civilians. He was asked to stop and he didn’t. Why didn’t they politely ask again, while maybe offering a cup of tea or something? It would be nice if they would have, but like we said it’s war time there.

Exactly. It's a luxury to treat a bratty punk with kid gloves, and some people don't have that luxury.

He's lucky he didn't get shot, I take it everybody is by now aware that there is a war going on there. The difference between 'Russian spy' and 'Dutch journalist' is in this case small enough that he should have been grateful at the restraint shown, especially given that he had ignored multiple summons to remove the content.

But it's not like he just took the pictures, he immediately posted them on the internet. The damage was already done and their anger was somewhat justified.

Given that he's a professional and supposed to know better, what he did is difficult to distinguish from spying.

I assumed they would have shot him on the spot. Chokehold seems mild. You're in a war zone. Shooting people who put you in harm is a thing.

They don't really do "stand around and argue for 10min and then finally bust out the tazer when you still won't get in the damn car" enforcement in war zones.

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