Two members of a Reuters TV crew were hit by rubber bullets and a photographer's camera was smashed in Minneapolis on Saturday night as attacks against journalists covering civil unrest in U.S. cities intensified reut.rs/36OJzyo
Footage taken by cameraman Julio-Cesar Chavez showed a police officer aiming directly at him as police fired rubber bullets, pepper spray and tear gas to disperse about 500 protesters after an 8 p.m. curfew
Minutes later, Chavez and Reuters security advisor Rodney Seward were struck by rubber bullets as they took cover at a nearby gas station 
At least another 15 members of the news media were injured when police fired rubber bullets or tear gas, according to The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. At least another six were hurt in attacks by protesters or unidentified assailants
Reuters photographer Lucas Jackson, who was hit by a rubber bullet in Minneapolis on Friday night, had his camera smashed on Saturday by a protester wielding a crowbar
'Usually if you get hit by this stuff it's because you are between the police and the protesters - you're taking the risk by being in the middle,' Jackson said. 'During this they are actually aiming at us'
From Los Angeles to Minneapolis to New York, what seemed like isolated attacks on the press at political rallies and protests over the last few years has intensified, according to some media experts reut.rs/2ZTZdqZ
CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez and his crew were arrested on live television while covering a protest following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on Friday evening reut.rs/2ZTZdqZ
Over a three-day period, organizations that track press violence documented about two dozen acts of violence reut.rs/2ZTZdqZ
