Minneapolis police here aiming directly at clearly identified journalists...
Two members of a Reuters TV crew were hit by rubber bullets and injured.
mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/id…
Two members of a Reuters TV crew were hit by rubber bullets and injured.
mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/id…
Minneapolis police also shot a Swedish journalist with rubber bullets bit.ly/3eDTpGn
Los Angeles police also shot a journalist with rubber bullets - also apparently deliberately.
Minneapolis police also shot a photojournalist in the face with a rubber bullet, permanently blinding her in one eye.
tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world…
tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world…
And Louisville...
And Denver...
State Patrol in Minneapolis shot another photojournalist with a rubber bullet, forced him to the ground and arrested him.
The video makes clear he identified himself as press, but obscenity shouting officers ignored that.
minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/05/30/wcc…
The video makes clear he identified himself as press, but obscenity shouting officers ignored that.
minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/05/30/wcc…
I see some people saying these attacks on journalists are a coordinated campaign across the US, but it seems far more likely that they are due to a general culture of incompetence, bad training, and repeated anti-free-press signals from very top creating a permissive atmosphere.
Here’s a longer thread covering these new attacks on journalists in the US from @KABGreek
And here’s another long thread about attacks on journalists in the context of the #GeorgeFloydProtests in the US from @N_Waters89
Police attack BBC cameraman in Washington DC...
Yet another deliberate attack on a journalist by Minneapolis police.
He clearly identifies himself as press multiple times.
Police force him to the ground and pepper spray him in the face.
vice.com/amp/en_us/arti…
He clearly identifies himself as press multiple times.
Police force him to the ground and pepper spray him in the face.
vice.com/amp/en_us/arti…
Police in Washington DC assaulted these Australian journalists (part of the violence unleashed so Trump could get his photo op)
sbs.com.au/news/calls-for…
sbs.com.au/news/calls-for…
