Fort Mill, S.C. Times
Matthews' father, Tom Matthews, heard about his son's arrest Tuesday morning, then saw him in an Associated Press photo that showed him turning away from a stream of pepper spray.
By SCOTT MCFETRIDGE
(Published September 03, 2008)
MINNEAPOLIS — Two University of Kentucky journalism students remained jailed Wednesday, more than a day after they were swept up with nearly 300 others during protests in downtown St. Paul.
Police arrested students Edward C. Matthews and Britney D. McIntosh along with their newspaper adviser Jim Winn on Monday afternoon. Winn was released around 6:30 a.m. Wednesday. All came to the Twin Cities to document protests held in response to the Republican National Convention, meeting this week in St. Paul.
Matthews' father, Tom Matthews, heard about his son's arrest Tuesday morning, then saw him in an Associated Press photo that showed him turning away from a stream of pepper spray.
"I feel for him," his father said. "He's taking it in the chops."
Matthews, of Lexington, Ky., spent much of Tuesday trying to learn whether his 21-year-old son would face charges or be released from the Ramsey County jail before being told he'd remain in jail for a second night.
The three arrested are affiliated with the University of Kentucky student newspaper, the Kentucky Kernel. Matthews is a photographer, McIntosh is the multimedia editor and Winn is the paper's photo adviser.
Editor Brad Luttrell said the three traveled to St. Paul for the experience of working with professional journalists on a big story, not to cover the convention for the college paper.
"Their intent was to document. They were not protesters," Luttrell said. "They were doing what all the other journalists were there to do."
The photo of Matthews reacting to pepper spray was atop the Kernel's Web site on Tuesday, and Luttrell said it would be the 17,000-circulation daily newspaper's top story Wednesday.
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