The Life and Times of a Black Lives Matter Protester

The New York Times published an op-ed by Senator Tom Cotton that called Black Lives Matter protesters rioters and argued the US military should attack them. Harper: The piece violated a widely understood, though unwritten rule at the paper not to be used as an instrument to incite violence or malign an entire group of people. Reporters are banned from criticizing the paper publicly, so these staffers risk their jobs by speaking out. More than 800 of the paper staff members sent a letter to management in protest of the op-ed's publication.