“I Have Never Been Fired at By Police Until Tonight” – Journalists Covering Protests Find They Too Are Targets

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Assaults on protestors, including members of the news media, by the police increased as the George Floyd protests continued to grow in size and intensity across the nation this week.

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There have been many shocking scenes captured on video and by social media over the past few days — crowds from Dallas to Boston engulfed in clouds of tear gas, protestors being clubbed in the face and legs by Los Angeles police officers, two police vehicles ramming into a group of unarmed protestors in Brooklyn — but perhaps few have been more troubling than that of a black CNN reporter taken into handcuffs and arrested for doing nothing more than standing in the street and doing a live report...

Instead, as the cameras continue to roll, Jimenez was handcuffed and taken into custody, as he continued to ask, “Why am I under arrest, sir?” In Louisville, Kentucky, where protesters have been marching in memory of Breonna Taylor, a black woman who was fatally shot in her apartment by police in March, an officer fired what appeared to be pepper balls at a reporter for WAVE 3 News, a local TV station. "Ow! I'm getting shot, I'm getting shot," the reporter, Kaitlin Rust, started yelling as her camera crew continued to shoot the live feed.

Also in Minneapolis, Linda Tirado, a freelance photographer, activist and author, was shot in the left eye Friday while covering the street protests in that city. Tirado had donned goggles to protect her eyes. In the commotion of running from tear gas, they slipped off her face. “I was aiming my next shot, put my camera down for a second, and then my face exploded,” she said inafter being released from the hospital.

Perhaps the most detailed report on a police assault on journalists came from Molly Hennessy-Fiske, a reporter covering the protests in Minneapolis for the Los Angeles Times. In, Hennessy-Fiske wrote, "When Minnesota police advanced on peaceful protesters gathered at an intersection outside the Fifth Precinct late Saturday, I didn’t expect them to fire on reporters. I was wrong."

As Hennessy concluded, "I’ve covered protests involving police in Ferguson, Mo., Baton Rouge, La., Dallas and Los Angeles. I’ve also covered the U.S. military in war zones, including Iraq and Afghanistan. I have never been fired at by police until tonight.

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So confused, why did the officer arrested him, he was just reporting the news?

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