The National Association of Black Journalists(NABJ) condemns the arrest of the CNN crew members who were simply doing jobs and covering protests in Minneapolis this morning. They were handcuffed and carried by the state police during a live shoot as CNN mentioned that.In the retaliation for the murder of George Floyd the Anonymous Hacktivist Group collective and disabled the Minneapolis Department website on late Saturday night.
According to the multiple reports, the Minneapolis PD Site as well as the parent city of Minneapolis site are not accessible online due to some hacktivists taking the website down.
Till Sunday, the sites were still experiencing the access problems and this was confirmed because the visitor had to clear the “captcha” verification. This happens when a site faces a Distributed denial of services(DDoS) attack then the internet security firm Cloudflare automatically active this function to check whether the user a human or a bot. This function is also designed to render an internet service unusable by flooding it with bogus traffic.
A site except the Minneapolis Police department has separate sites insidempd.com is not affected by the attacks.
On May 28, a warning video released from the anonymous group ” They will exposing many crimes to the world and this time the brutal killing of George Floyd – that was mainly the small part of the wrongful death but there are a list of cases which are basically done without the law”
The Video is watched around more than 1.8 million times and this video is also trending on twitter using #anonymous hashtag but after a few hours, twitter started deleting the videos.
The @latestanonnews twitter handle, claimed to run the multiple anons but they don’t take credit for the outrages of the Minneapolis Police Department and government sites, but when we follow the footprint the retweets of others suggest those were the result of an attack carried by the group.
