camacho

@bencamach0.bsky.social

journalist, photographer ✍️ inadvertent.news 🎥 westsidestorytellers.com 🧱 @iwwfju.bsky.social managing editor @thesouthlander.com signal: bencamacho.01 portfolio: bencamacho.com

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The Southlander@thesouthlander.com · 7d ago

⚠️ Content Warning: The Southlander previously reported that GEO Group, a billion-dollar private prison company, was ordered by the judge to share unsealed footage of the June 12, 2020 incident at the Adelanto ICE processing center… 🧵1/5

Journalism is not easy. Here are different conflicts I’ve had to go through just to do journalism, ranked from most annoying to most enjoyable: 1. @groundgamela.bsky.social’s hostile takeover of a newsroom and subsequent lawsuit against me and other journalists for demanding editorial independence

Same over here. @groundgamela.bsky.social is trying to claim they wrote my deputy gang series, and fighting that bullshit is taking everything I got.

camacho@bencamach0.bsky.social · 3w ago

I would be reporting more but @groundgamela.bsky.social’s retaliatory lawsuit against me and other journalists continues to force me into prioritizing other work so I can pay an attorney to defend their frivolous lawsuit. Don’t believe any of them when/if they ever say they support a free press.

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camacho@bencamach0.bsky.social · 3w ago

GEO Group forced to hand over videos related to brutal attack on detained people at Adelanto Dispatch from me over at @thesouthlander.com: thesouthlander.com/geo-group-re...