If you are participating in said events, you are no longer a journalist. The blatant dishonesty of calling detainments arrests and including getting caught up

If you are participating in said events, you are no longer a journalist. The blatant dishonesty of calling detainments arrests and including getting caught up in a "kettle" because they were in the crowd as detainment leads me to believe they would also include participants calling themselves journalists in the list. Why should "journalists" participating in the event receive any special treatment? It should be expected they be treated as any other participant.