WaPo Reporter Warned Ferguson Officer His Arrest Would Make Front Page; He Was Right

In his account of his arrest in a Ferguson McDonalds last night, Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery warned one of his arresting officers that the incident would make the front page of the Washington Post. The officer was not impressed:

Lowery was right (though the actual story was on page A14). Perhaps more worrisome for the Ferguson PD was the Lowery co-authored story about the police force’s history of racial profiling, which prominently made the front page, just below the fold:

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