Suddenly a nearby riot police officer yelled: “Let’s get to work,” and a group of them began grabbing people, including me. Inside the vehicle, I showed officers my Russian foreign ministry accreditation and said I was there doing my job. “Maybe you are accused of killing Kennedy,” the lieutenant in charge told me sarcastically when I asked on what grounds they had detained an American journalist. Many of the people arrested with me were in their late teens or 20s, a new generation of protesters. An engineer named Albert Komissarov told me he had just been passing by when he was detained on Sunday.

Source: The Guardian March 27, 2017 11:59 UTC