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Zorro

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Wed Sep 1, 2021, 12:24 PM Sep 2021

Sheriff Looking For 'Person Of Interest' After Reporter Attacked During Anti-Mask Rally

A reporter in Traverse City, Michigan was allegedly assaulted during an anti-mask rally, and now the sheriff’s office is seeking information on one of the two men potentially involved.

The incident was just the latest in months of reporters facing aggressive pushback, and sometimes violence, for doing their jobs.

Brendan Quealy, a reporter for the Traverse City Record-Eagle, was covering a event hosted by a group opposed to vaccine and mask mandates in schools Thursday when a speaker from Citizens Liberating Michigan, Heather Cerone, addressed him directly.

“There’s no reporting, Brendan,” Cerone said. “We don’t authorize that. So, you guys feel like standing in front of him?”

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/sheriff-looking-for-person-of-interest-after-reporter-attacked-during-anti-mask-rally

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Sheriff Looking For 'Person Of Interest' After Reporter Attacked During Anti-Mask Rally (Original Post) Zorro Sep 2021 OP
If he was wearing a mask, he might've gotten away with it. kysrsoze Sep 2021 #1
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