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Journalists were injured — and maybe even targeted — while covering immigration protests in Los Angeles

Poynter · Tom Jones · last updated

One particularly disturbing moment was caught on camera over the weekend during the media coverage of the immigration protests in Los Angeles. A television reporter from Australia was shot by someone in law enforcement using nonlethal rubber bullets. It’s not clear which agency the officer was with.

Lauren Tomasi, a correspondent for 9News, was doing a live report when the officer standing behind her clearly took aim at her and shot her in the leg. (Here’s the video.) Tomasi, holding a microphone and talking into a camera, was clearly a journalist.

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