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Fox News Reporter Attacked, Chased from Demonstration Outside White House
May 31, 2020 19:22:57 #
Fox News Reporter Attacked, Chased from Demonstration Outside White House
Police detain protesters as they march down the street during a solidarity rally for George Floyd on Saturday in New York. Protests turned into riots throughout the city over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on May 25. (Wong Maye-E / AP)
A Fox News reporter was pummeled and chased by protesters who had gathered outside the White House early Saturday as part of nationwide unrest following the death of George Floyd.
For several journalists across the country, the demonstrations were taking an ominous, dangerous turn.
A television reporter in Columbia, South Carolina, was hurt by a thrown rock Saturday and a journalist in Minneapolis was shot in the thigh by a rubber bullet.
Demonstrators also broke windows and vandalized the Atlanta office building where CNN is headquartered, and police in Louisville, Kentucky, apologized after an officer fired what appeared to be pepper bullets at a television news crew.
Fox’s Leland Vittert was rattled following the Washington attack that he said was clearly targeted at his news organization.
“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.
Vittert said there were no markings on him or the crew’s equipment to identify them as from Fox. But he said during the demonstration, one man continually asked him who he worked for.
He didn’t answer, but the man found a picture of Vittert on his cell phone and shouted to other protesters that he was from Fox.
“The protesters stopped protesting whatever it was they were protesting and turned on us,” he said, “and that was a very different feeling.”
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.”
A correspondent from the website The Daily Caller followed Vittert and the demonstrators as they left the park. At one point, someone took Vittert’s microphone and threw it at his back.
One woman chasing him wore a T-shirt that said, “I can’t breathe,” a reference to what Floyd said earlier this week when a Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee against his neck.
Vittert said he was “extremely grateful” to The Daily Caller crew for documenting the scene; Galdabini’s camera was smashed.
“They were putting themselves at risk,” he said.
“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.”
Suzanne Scott, CEO of Fox News Media, wrote in a memo on Saturday that Fox was taking all necessary security precautions to protect its journalists covering the story.
“We are truly living in unprecedented and transformative times and freedom of the press is a vital element to the foundation of our society,” Scott wrote.
On Friday, CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez and his two-member crew were arrested while covering overnight protests in Minneapolis. They were quickly released, and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz apologized to CNN.
CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta was damaged later Friday by a group of protesters who also fought with police and set cars afire. While police tried to keep them away from the CNN Center, demonstrators broke windows there and scrawled obscene graffiti on the network’s logo.
In Louisville, WAVE-TV was on the air covering a demonstration when video showed a police officer aiming a rifle at reporter Kaitlin Rust and her crew. She was heard yelling, “I’ve been shot! I’ve been shot!” and described them as pepper bullets.
Louisville Police spokeswoman Jesse Halladay apologized for the incident and said police would review the video for potential discipline.
Two Associated Press photographers have been hit by projectiles while documenting protests, one in Minneapolis on Thursday and another in Los Angeles on Friday. Neither was seriously injured.
Demonstrators surrounded the police department headquarters in Columbia, South Carolina, on Saturday and a scuffle broke out with someone wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat.
Rocks were thrown and Miranda Parnell, a television reporter from WIS-TV, was injured and taken to the hospital, according to a tweet from network anchor Judi Gatson.
It was not clear who threw the rock that hit Parnell.
In Minneapolis on Saturday, a Swedish journalist was shot in the thigh with a rubber bullet, apparently from a police gun, while covering a protest, according to the Norwegian newspaper VG.
Later Saturday night, a CNN crew said some of its members were hit with rubber bullets
https://www.westernjournal.com/ap-fox-news-reporter-attacked-chased-demonstration/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=WJBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=western-journal
Police detain protesters as they march down the street during a solidarity rally for George Floyd on Saturday in New York. Protests turned into riots throughout the city over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on May 25. (Wong Maye-E / AP)
A Fox News reporter was pummeled and chased by protesters who had gathered outside the White House early Saturday as part of nationwide unrest following the death of George Floyd.
For several journalists across the country, the demonstrations were taking an ominous, dangerous turn.
A television reporter in Columbia, South Carolina, was hurt by a thrown rock Saturday and a journalist in Minneapolis was shot in the thigh by a rubber bullet.
Demonstrators also broke windows and vandalized the Atlanta office building where CNN is headquartered, and police in Louisville, Kentucky, apologized after an officer fired what appeared to be pepper bullets at a television news crew.
Fox’s Leland Vittert was rattled following the Washington attack that he said was clearly targeted at his news organization.
“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.
Vittert said there were no markings on him or the crew’s equipment to identify them as from Fox. But he said during the demonstration, one man continually asked him who he worked for.
He didn’t answer, but the man found a picture of Vittert on his cell phone and shouted to other protesters that he was from Fox.
“The protesters stopped protesting whatever it was they were protesting and turned on us,” he said, “and that was a very different feeling.”
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.”
A correspondent from the website The Daily Caller followed Vittert and the demonstrators as they left the park. At one point, someone took Vittert’s microphone and threw it at his back.
One woman chasing him wore a T-shirt that said, “I can’t breathe,” a reference to what Floyd said earlier this week when a Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee against his neck.
Vittert said he was “extremely grateful” to The Daily Caller crew for documenting the scene; Galdabini’s camera was smashed.
“They were putting themselves at risk,” he said.
“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.”
Suzanne Scott, CEO of Fox News Media, wrote in a memo on Saturday that Fox was taking all necessary security precautions to protect its journalists covering the story.
“We are truly living in unprecedented and transformative times and freedom of the press is a vital element to the foundation of our society,” Scott wrote.
On Friday, CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez and his two-member crew were arrested while covering overnight protests in Minneapolis. They were quickly released, and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz apologized to CNN.
CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta was damaged later Friday by a group of protesters who also fought with police and set cars afire. While police tried to keep them away from the CNN Center, demonstrators broke windows there and scrawled obscene graffiti on the network’s logo.
In Louisville, WAVE-TV was on the air covering a demonstration when video showed a police officer aiming a rifle at reporter Kaitlin Rust and her crew. She was heard yelling, “I’ve been shot! I’ve been shot!” and described them as pepper bullets.
Louisville Police spokeswoman Jesse Halladay apologized for the incident and said police would review the video for potential discipline.
Two Associated Press photographers have been hit by projectiles while documenting protests, one in Minneapolis on Thursday and another in Los Angeles on Friday. Neither was seriously injured.
Demonstrators surrounded the police department headquarters in Columbia, South Carolina, on Saturday and a scuffle broke out with someone wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat.
Rocks were thrown and Miranda Parnell, a television reporter from WIS-TV, was injured and taken to the hospital, according to a tweet from network anchor Judi Gatson.
It was not clear who threw the rock that hit Parnell.
In Minneapolis on Saturday, a Swedish journalist was shot in the thigh with a rubber bullet, apparently from a police gun, while covering a protest, according to the Norwegian newspaper VG.
Later Saturday night, a CNN crew said some of its members were hit with rubber bullets
https://www.westernjournal.com/ap-fox-news-reporter-attacked-chased-demonstration/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=WJBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=western-journal
May 31, 2020 19:32:42 #
JFlorio
Loc: Seminole Florida
The problem with these cities and states run by snowflake Democrats is when you show weakness, the looter crowd doesn’t see someone willing to have a conversation. They see weakness and attack.
Oldsailor65 wrote:
Fox News Reporter Attacked, Chased from Demonstrat... (show quote)
May 31, 2020 19:32:51 #
I'd give a lot to be wearing a mask in one of these protests at night with people running around.
I'd make my feelings felt to some high, entitled, black college scholarship millennial, looking for street cred at his hood- based nonprofit.
The black people I know wouldn't mind a free pair of shoes but are too busy working to join looting.
I have three doctors who are African American milionnaires.
I'd Iike to hear what they have to say about the Continuing narrative of no opportunity for black people in America.
Formal and informal antifa participants, Shame on you. Taking a federal officer's life to star in a YouTube or pretend you live in a bad country is normally bankrupt.
This country isn't worthless. YOU are. And you are working hard at it.
You can be outraged about George Floyd without causing property damage
I'd make my feelings felt to some high, entitled, black college scholarship millennial, looking for street cred at his hood- based nonprofit.
The black people I know wouldn't mind a free pair of shoes but are too busy working to join looting.
I have three doctors who are African American milionnaires.
I'd Iike to hear what they have to say about the Continuing narrative of no opportunity for black people in America.
Formal and informal antifa participants, Shame on you. Taking a federal officer's life to star in a YouTube or pretend you live in a bad country is normally bankrupt.
This country isn't worthless. YOU are. And you are working hard at it.
You can be outraged about George Floyd without causing property damage
May 31, 2020 22:30:53 #
JFlorio wrote:
The problem with these cities and states run by snowflake Democrats is when you show weakness, the looter crowd doesn’t see someone willing to have a conversation. They see weakness and attack.
You got that right.
May 31, 2020 22:32:05 #
Trumpnotthestormiestpres wrote:
I'd give a lot to be wearing a mask in one of thes... (show quote)
You said it well.
Jun 1, 2020 19:22:03 #
Oldsailor65 wrote:
Fox News Reporter Attacked, Chased from Demonstrat... (show quote)
One reporter in Minneapolis showed where he'd gotten hit by a rubber bullet.
Oh my gosh.
It was huge and bloody.
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