CTV journalist Tom Walters is facing charges almost a year after being arrested for asking a police officer a question while covering the protests in Ferguson, Missouri.

Walters, who is the network’s Los Angeles bureau chief, was charged with interfering with a police officer, according to CTV News. Walters had been covering the violent protests that gripped Ferguson last summer when he was arrested after asking a police officer a question on West Florissant Avenue. His arrest was caught on tape, and he was detained almost nine hours before being released without charges.

San Francisco-based Freedom of the Press Foundation noted that about two dozen journalists were arrested during the protest.

Now Walters is being summoned to a St. Louis, Missouri court later this month to face charges for allegedly “failing to comply with officers’ lawful commands to disperse from West Florissant Avenue,” CTV News reports.

At the time of his arrest, Walters explained that police had asked media to leave before they cleared out the last of the protestors. Walters had tried to ask Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson why, when police arrested him.

“Now, when a town fears brutality by law enforcement, and police suddenly want to do their work unseen by media observers, it’s not just a fair question but a necessary one to ask why,” Walters wrote in his first-person account of the arrest for CTV News a year ago.

“If Capt. Johnson had been taking questions, I would also have asked whether it is appropriate for police to make arrests they have no intention of prosecuting, or whether that’s using the power of arrest merely as convenience to suppress protest or to disperse a crowd,” Walters wrote.

Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a white police officer, an act which sparked outrage and more than two weeks of protests. Police response, which included firing tear gas and shooting rubber bullets into crowds, was heavily criticized.

CTV News President Wendy Freeman condemned the charges against Walters.

“CTV News strongly condemns the charges filed by St. Louis County against CTV News correspondent Tom Walters while he reported on the protests in Ferguson, Missouri last August,” Freeman said in a statement.

“Tom has the full support of CTV News as we fight these charges. Almost a year ago, Tom was arrested and detained for eight-and-a-half hours for simply doing his job. As an organization that covers news both in Canada and internationally, CTV News is unwavering in its commitment to defending the rights of all journalists.”

The Star reached out to Walters, who declined to comment.

Walters is not the only journalist facing charges related to their coverage of the protests. Huffington Post reporter Ryan Reilly and Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery were also charged this week, in relation to arrests made during the Ferguson protests last year. They are being charged with trespassing after being told to leave McDonalds by police during the protest.

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“You’d have thought law enforcement authorities would have come to their senses about this incident. Wes Lowery should never have been arrested in the first place. That was an abuse of police authority,” Martin Baron, executive editor of the Washington Post, said in a statement on Monday.

“The Huffington Post condemns the charges filed by St Louis County against our Justice Reporter, Ryan Reilly, while covering the protests in Ferguson last year,” the Huffington Post’s Washington bureau chief Ryan Grim said in a statement.

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