Snapshot · The Bulwark Podcast
Paul Johnson, a Minnesota protester, reportedly lay shackled in a hospital bed for 5 days, unable to communicate with anyone, after receiving head blows from federal agents.
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Briefly pivoting to a parallel story, Tim Miller raises a New York Times piece about Paul Johnson, a Minnesota protester who says federal agents struck him in the head and then left him shackled in a hospital bed for five days with no ability to reach anyone — woozy from pain medication, alone, incommunicado. Miller describes it as 'horrific' and 'monstrous,' an example of a pattern of government brutality against protesters that is flying below the mainstream media radar. Coaston ties it back to the broader theme of the episode: the same people who couldn't stop talking about the untrustworthiness of the Biden administration are completely credulous about DHS accounts of these incidents.
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