On: Police attacks against journalists across the U.S....

[AaronFriel]

Separately and for transparency, I emailed dang and the HN moderation team and asked for this public response.

Thank you dang for doing so and bringing transparency to your moderating decisions.

[dang → AaronFriel]

It's good that you emailed because I probably wouldn't have seen the question otherwise. That's one main reason the guidelines ask people to email us with questions instead of posting them on the site (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). There's far too much material here for us to see it all.