Shanghaiist: ‘Undercover’ Police Block CNN, BBC, and AFP Cameras with Umbrellas on Tiananmen Square (with Video)

The Shanghaiist has collected several videos of plainclothes police disrupting foreign reporters in Tiananmen Square by walking in front of their cameras with opened umbrellas.  CDT has reposted one video from the BBC below; see the original blog post for all three:

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