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So many people in positions of relative power were unable to summon a sentence like "I dislike Ngo's work but physical assaults on journalists, and/or people filming in public, are never acceptable"! That's crazy -- it's the equivalent of being unable to clear a two-inch hurdle.
That said it's fine to say "police claim" the thing about the quick-drying cement but it smells like a potential rumor and people should be cautious about spreading that aspect of the story. All the bad stuff is on video anyway.
See? This isn't hard. A bunch of mouth-breathing Twitter tough-guys will yell at her but so what? There are actual progressive journalists, right now, refusing to condemn violence against another journalist because OH NO THE CHAPO GUPPIES. It's genuinely pathetic and disorts. 
Even if you are the sort of irredeemable prick who thinks you have the moral standing and wisdom to fuzz up "Don't physically assault someone filming in public" as a universal rule, you HAVE to at least be able to understand how *tactically* stupid and self-defeating this is.
