While covering the protests — and the Trump administration’s out-of-proportion response to them — in Los Angeles on Monday, CNN’s national correspondent Jason Carroll was briefly detained by LAPD live on the air without any apparent reason.

At one point during the network’s live coverage, Carroll could be heard explaining who he is to officers with his hands behind his back. Eventually one officer said, “We’re letting you go. You can’t come back. If you come back, you will be arrested.”

That at least appears to be a violation of a 2022 California law that specifically protects the rights of journalists to cover protests in areas closed by police.

Watch that moment below:

CNN’s reporter on scene in Los Angeles: I’m being detained.. — Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-06-10T04:15:06.581Z

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