Dozens Of Journalists Targeted, Shot, Detained While Covering LA Protests, Press Org Says [View all]
Source: Huff Post
Jun 10, 2025, 06:39 PM EDT
Shocking video and photos taken amid the ongoing immigration protests in Los Angeles show journalists and news crews being shot, detained and forced off public property by law enforcement, raising concerns of excessive force and First Amendment rights violations.
There have been more than 30 incidents of police violence against journalists as of Tuesday, including 20 injuries, at least five of which required emergency room or urgent care visits, said Adam Rose, the press rights chair with the Los Angeles Press Club, which released a statement Monday urging an end to the targeting of journalists whose work is constitutionally protected.
The list of injuries includes a freelance photojournalist requiring emergency surgery Sunday night after being shot in the leg with a three-inch piece of plastic that he believes was designed to be shot and explode above a crowd.
This is the plastic projectile that news photographer Nick Stern said a surgeon removed from his leg on Sunday.Nick Stern
Graphic photos shared with HuffPost show a gaping wound in Nick Stern’s right thigh that he said has left him unable to walk or move without assistance. “Why this device was shot at human, kind of, waist high level, I do not know. The people around me at that time was doing nothing more than waving Mexican flags,” he told HuffPost.
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/journalists-shot-detained-covering-la-immigration-protests_n_68482fd5e4b0c1bc4e818847
When things like this happen, the default response from the M$M should NOT be "ButBiden". They are as much a contributor to this as the braindead zombie MAGats (and I am not including the indies who are out there but am looking at the ones like CNN, whose reporters and photogs, per an article I saw, got rounded up today).
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