Journalism is not interfearing with an arrest

I am happy that a Texas Jury clears Galveston news photographer of interfering with police during arrest. I understand that cops need some level of control to make an arrest, but that is not the level of a police state.

I just worry that he would have not been cleared if he was a regular person or blogger. I know that the press are spelled out as special under the First Amendment. I just to hate to think I might be not be cleared since I do not work for a newspaper.