US EditionPress groups warn federal agents may have violated journalists’ First Amendment rights in LA
- Federal officers appear to have deliberately targeted journalists in Los Angeles while covering protests, according to press groups.
- At least four journalists were shot with non-lethal munitions or tear-gassed by police while reporting on the protests in Los Angeles from June 6-8.
- The Los Angeles Press Club documented over 20 instances of obstruction and attacks against members of the media during the protests.
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We Must Stand Up for the Free Press—Now More Than Ever - Falls Church News
This week, a journalist in Los Angeles was shot with a projectile fired by police while covering a protest—clearly identifiable as press, simply doing their job. It’s the latest in a growing list of incidents that should alarm every one of us who believes in a free society. It’s no longer just hostile tweets or online harassment. Journalists across the country are being shoved, arrested, threatened—and now, even shot—while trying to bring the p…
Denver Gazette
union-bulletin.comLA law enforcement treatment of journalists during protests once again under scrutiny
LOS ANGELES — Abraham Márquez, a reporter with the nonprofit investigative news startup Southlander, was filming a tense standoff between Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies and immigrant rights protesters in Paramount on Saturday night when he saw a deputy aim…
L.A. law enforcement's treatment of journalists during protests is once again under scrutiny
Journalists have been shot with less-lethal police rounds, tear-gassed, shoved and detained while chronicling the ongoing civil unrest and military intervention in Los Angeles.
CPJ, others urge restraint after federal officers injure journalists covering Los Angeles protests - Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists on Monday joined 27 press and civil society organizations in a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem expressing alarm that federal officials might have violated the First Amendment rights of journalists covering recent protests in Los Angeles, California, which started following immigration raids in the city. The...
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