St. Charles County in Missouri will pay three Al Jazeera jounalists who were tear-gassed during their coverage of the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, Missouri.The three were covering the aftermath of Michael Brown’s death in that community when they were caught up in the tear gas deployed by the county’s SWAT team.St.
Charles County agreed to pay $280,000 in total to the three, according to the law firm Lathrop GPM, which represented the journalists.The Al Jazeera America journalists — correspondent Ash-har Quraishi, producer Marla Cichowski and photojournalist Sam Winslade — were preparing for a live broadcast when confronted by the SWAT team.
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