MSNBC host Ali Velshi tweeted Saturday he'd been hit by rubber bullets 'but I am fine,' he posted. 'State police supported by National Guard fired unprovoked into an entirely peaceful rally.'
In Minneapolis, freelance journalist and photographer Linda Tiradolate Friday night that she'd been shot in the eye by a police's tracer round. She credited protestors with helping her get to the hospital where she was rushed into surgery. By Saturday morning, she tweeted that the injury left her "permanently blind in my left eye, and the docs absolutely refuse to let me go back to work for they say six weeks. I’m definitely not allowed to be near smoke or gas.
“We took a good thumping,” he told The Associated Press. A live shot he was doing was interrupted by a group of protesters who shouted obscenities directed at Fox. Flanked by two security guards, he and photographer Christian Galdabini walked away from Washington's Lafayette Park trailed by an angry group before riot police dispersed them.
He compared it to when he was chased away from a demonstration in Egypt during the Arab Spring of 2011 by a group that shouted, “Fox News hates Muslims.” “It makes me proud to do my job and to be a journalist,” he said. “I'm proud to be an organization that is unyielding in our coverage. We're going to keep on telling our story and doing exactly what we're doing.”
Ian Smith, a photographer for KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, said that he was attacked by protesters who stomped and kicked him at a demonstration there. Smith, who said other protesters jumped in to save him, posted a picture on Twitter showing him with a bruised face and bloody hand.
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