Bilgin Şaşmaz is a photojournalist for the Anadolu Agency, the official state-run Turkish news agency. He was arrested on August 19, 2014 in Ferguson after being threatened to be shot by a policeman from the St. Ann Police Department. Sasmaz reports that he was was beaten by police and held for five hours. 

That policeman, (name), was later removed from active service in Ferguson after a letter from the Missouri ACLU protested his activities.

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