Minnesota police zip-tied Asian-American CNN producer, asked if she spoke English, says lawyer

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The producer was jailed for more than two hours before attorneys could find her and secure her eventual release, according to her lawyer.

producer Carolyn Sung was reportedly thrown down, zip-tied and arrested by Minnesota state troopers last Tuesday evening while covering protests, and one trooper asked if she spoke English, her primary language, according to a letter by her lawyer Leita Walker.

"Despite repeatedly hearing Sung identify herself as a member of the press and tell the troopers that the zip ties were too tight on her wrists, one trooper yelled at Sung, 'Do you speak English?,'" Walker's letter said, noting that Sung never resisted the police. While in jail, Sung reportedly was patted down and searched by a female officer who put her hands down her pants and in her bra. Then she was fingerprinted and electronically body-scanned before being ordered to undress and change into an orange prison suit before her release.

 

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