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Two journalists covering the Michael Brown shooting case, Wesley Lowery of The Washington Post and Ryan J. Reilly of The Huffington Post, reported that they were arrested and released by the Ferguson Police Department Wednesday night. Lowery and Reilly said they were detained after filming officers inside of a McDonald's and then not leaving fast enough when ordered out.

SWAT just invade McDonald's where I'm working/recharging. Asked for ID when I took photo. pic.twitter.com/FOIsMnBwHy — Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) August 13, 2014

At 6:53 p.m. local time Lowery tweeted that police entered the McDonalds and tried to kick everyone out. About 45 minutes later he tweeted "was arrested."

Officers decided we weren't leaving McDonalds quickly enough, shouldn't have been taping them. — Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) August 14, 2014

Both reporters said they were assaulted during their arrests:

Unfortunately my last Vine featuring the officer who assaulted me was deleted when other my phone died. — Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) August 14, 2014

Also Ryan Reilly of Huff Po. Assaulted and arrested — Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) August 14, 2014

Officers slammed me into a fountain soda machine because I was confused about which door they were asking me to walk out of — Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) August 14, 2014

Reilly called in to MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes and described the arrest. An officer started counting Reilly down, then grabbed his belongings, forced them into his bag, and arrested him. According to Reilly the officer used his finger to create a pressure point in his neck and slammed him against a wall. "The worst part was he slammed my head against the glass purposefully on the way out of McDonald's and then sarcastically apologized for it," he said.

Matt Pearce at the Los Angeles Times said he spoke to the Ferguson police chief, who was shocked when he heard that two journalists had been arrested. "I told them to release them," he told Pearce, referring to the riot command. The chief said the two were arrested "probably by somebody who didn't know better."