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In the past few days, we’ve seen disturbing videos and reports of journalists getting brutalized from both sides of recent clashes: rioters beating them, damaging and stealing equipment, and police arresting and shooting reporters with rubber bullets or pepper spray balls while they just try to report. But according to CNN’s media analyst and Reliable Sources host, Brian Stelter, President Trump along with other media naysayers might be to blame for this apparent uptick in hostility.
One of the egregious examples Stelter shared was the case of a local CBS affiliate reporter in Louisville, Kentucky. The reporter and her crew were BEHIND the police line reporting from several dozen feet away, when a police officer turned around and approached while shooting them with a paintball gun loaded with pepper spray balls.
To Stelter’s credit, he did include the incident from outside the White House were a Fox News crew was assaulted and pursued out of the area. He denounced it:
In D.C., this is in Washington in Lafayette Park, a Fox News crew was harassed and then chased out of the park by protestors who were cursing and screaming at Fox News and criticizing right-wing media. This is deplorable behavior by protestors.
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