A reporter arrested live on air, another blinded in one eye, many more targeted with teargas and pepper spray - just some of the incidents in which US police seemingly targeted journalists
was arrested live on-air while describing the scene in Minneapolis after a night of police violence and rioting. The journalist was heard repeatedly telling the arresting officers that he was with the media to no avail.
On May 31, black CNN commentator, Keith Boyker, said he was arrested in New York while taking photos and video of unrest toMany commentators have warned that black reporters face a heightened risk of harassment from US police officers. Former president of the PEN American Center, Francine Prose, wrote: “One shudders to think what might have happened to Jimenez, a black man in a tense confrontation with law enforcement, had he not been employed by CNN and accompanied by a camera crew.”Nevertheless, not all incidents of police targeting journalists involved African-American journalists.
Freelance photographer, Linda Tirado, was permanently blinded in one eye after she was shot at by Minneapolis police. “I was aiming my next shot, put my camera down for a second, and then my face exploded,” she told theCrews from NBC News in Minneapolis and local outlet, Wave 3, in Louisville had their run-ins with the police caught on camera. In the case of the former, witnesses reported being targeted with an
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