Police Shooting Missouri

A member of the St. Louis County Police Department points his weapon in the direction of a group of protesters in Ferguson, Mo. on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. On Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014, a white police officer fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in the St. Louis suburb. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

(Jeff Roberson)

Reporters from The Washington Post and Huffington Post were arrested on Wednesday evening during their coverage of events unfolding in a St. Louis suburb where an unarmed black teenager was shot and killed by a white police officer over the weekend.

Wesley Lowery of the Washington Post and Ryan J. Reilly of Huffington Post were working from a Ferguson, Mo.-area McDonalds when a SWAT team entered. Their tweets, seen below, document their arrest and subsequent release.

After Lowery posted these tweets, he posted two more terse messages saying that he and Reilly were arrested, and Reilly said he was assaulted in the progress. The two were quickly released without any charges filed. Lowery then gave a chilling description of the arrest.

This comes as unrest and protests in Ferguson continues into a fourth day after 18-year-old Michael Brown was slain. The Associated Press reported that Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson said he wouldn't be pressured into releasing the name of the officer involved in Brown's death.