Bodycam footage of Ohio police officers arresting NewsNation reporter Evan Lambert was released, showing officers directing Lambert to leave a news conference.
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Harris later told police the reporter was coming at him in an aggressive manner and he felt threatened."I instinctively put my hands on his chest to keep him from bumping into me, which I felt was inevitable if I had not protected myself," Harris said in a statement made to investigators and provided by his office. He declined Thursday to comment beyond his statements to police.
"This is what it’s like to be a Black reporter in 2023," Lambert said while he was being held down, according to the footage.who handcuffed Lambert are white as is the Columbiana County sheriff who ordered Lambert to leave. Both Lambert and Harris, the national guard commander who is a member of the governor's cabinet, are Black.
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