JOURNALISM
Journalists have been taken to task in several cities in the United States during demonstrations in recent days in reaction to the death of George Floyd, by police and demonstrators, attacked, arrested or targeted by gunfire.
The most publicized scene remains that of the arrest of CNN reporter Omar Jimenez, handcuffed by police in full live in Minneapolis Friday morning, before being released, an hour later. But several other incidents have taken place in the country, including in Louisville, Kentucky, where a riot police fired tear gas canisters at a local television crew that was filming him. “I’m being shot!” shouted Kaitlin Rust from local WAVE 3 on the air.
In Minneapolis, a freelance journalist, Linda Tirado, received a rubber bullet to the face and said that she had permanently lost the use of her eye. Members of the media were also attacked by protesters, such as photographer Ian Smith, who claimed to have been beaten in Pittsburgh before other protesters intervened.
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