Brutal Baltimore Beatings Worry Press Advocates

[Jesus Malverde]

Journalists covering riots in Baltimore were attacked and robbed Monday as furious locals confronted police and looted stores after the funeral of Freddie Gray, who suffered a fatal injury in police custody.

Washington Post columnist Petula Dvorak was shoved to the ground and robbed of her phone. Baltimore Sun photo editor Chris Assaf was tackled by looters and beaten. Oliver Janney of CNN said he was “jumped,” suffered a broken nose and was robbed of his phone.

A cameraman for CCTV America was attacked by protesters and had his camera stolen. A tweeted photo shows blood streaming down his face.

A video team from The Daily Caller also was attacked and robbed. Reporter Connor Wolf suffered a broken nose. Another reporter, Casey Harper, was hit with a liquor bottle that fractured his cheekbone.

WNEW-FM reporter Steve Dorsey, meanwhile, was hit in the face by a protester. His phone was stolen. In earlier protests on Saturday an RT reporter was robbed on camera.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/04/28/brutal-baltimore-beatings-worry-press-advocates

[LiberalEsto]

1. And an NBC4 cameraperson and reporter were hit with pepper balls by the cops

They showed it live on tv.

The cops got out of a black humvee-type vehicle holding what looked like rifles, and started firing into the crowd in West Baltimore. One cop looked at the camera and deliberately fired two shots right at the person holding the camera. Later one of the anchors said one member of the reporting team was hit; not sure about the other one.