HTTP 200 OK
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET,OPTIONS,HEAD
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Link:
<http://pressfreedomtracker.us/api/edge/incidents/?format=api>; rel="first",
<http://pressfreedomtracker.us/api/edge/incidents/?cursor=cj0xJnA9MjAyMC0wNy0yNC0zMzRiZTIxYS0yNmQ5LTExZWMtYTI1YS0yYWNjMzdlYjJlMDI%3D&format=api>; rel="prev",
<http://pressfreedomtracker.us/api/edge/incidents/?cursor=cD0yMDIwLTA3LTIxLTg1Mg%3D%3D&format=api>; rel="next"
Vary: Accept
[
{
"title": "LA Times journalist hit by crowd-control rounds despite court order in Portland",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/la-times-journalist-hit-by-crowd-control-rounds-despite-court-order-in-portland/",
"first_published_at": "2021-10-06T20:06:06.304935Z",
"last_published_at": "2024-06-13T17:08:23.765113Z",
"latest_revision_created_at": "2024-06-13T17:08:23.680056Z",
"date": "2020-07-24",
"exact_date_unknown": false,
"city": "Portland",
"longitude": -122.67621,
"latitude": 45.52345,
"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"l0oqk\">Los Angeles Times correspondent Melissa Etehad said she was targeted with crowd-control munitions fired by federal law enforcement officers during a protest in Portland, Oregon, on July 24, 2020, despite a fresh court order barring federal agents in the city from harming members of the press covering protests.</p><p data-block-key=\"aqws4\">Portland had been experiencing daily protests over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\"> documenting assaults, arrests and other incidents</a> involving journalists covering protests across the country.</p><p data-block-key=\"s6qse\">The presence of federal law enforcement in Portland in July<a href=\"https://apnews.com/a2c8f23381dcc7e6902452b55c3048ce\"> intensified the city's regular protests</a> and the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in downtown Portland became a nightly flashpoint. A temporary restraining order from July 2 that barred Portland police from harming or impeding journalists was<a href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-ordered-not-to-assault-arrest-journalists-in-portland/\"> expanded to include federal agents</a> on July 23. Despite the expansion of the temporary restraining order, the following day numerous journalists were hit with crowd-control munitions in the vicinity of the federal courthouse as protesters again gathered there. Some said they believed they were targeted.</p><p data-block-key=\"w6fpr\">The Department of Homeland Security, which has coordinated the federal presence in Portland, didn’t respond to a request for comment. In its<a href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/07/24/portland-riots-read-out-july-24\"> “Portland Riots Read-out”</a> DHS said one federal officer was injured during the protest, which began the night of July 23 and went through the morning of July 24.</p><p data-block-key=\"77jth\">“No injuries to protestors or rioters have been reported” the statement added. It didn’t mention any injuries to journalists, despite reports some reporters were hurt.</p><p data-block-key=\"nae9q\">Etehad told the Tracker she posted on Twitter that she was<a href=\"https://twitter.com/melissaetehad/status/1286613726678749185\"> struck in the waist with a “rubber bullet”</a> while covering the protest.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Also—I was hit by a rubber bullet on my waist even though I had clearly identified myself as a reporter and had just showed my credentials to agents just minutes before</p>— Melissa Etehad اتحاد (@melissaetehad) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/melissaetehad/status/1286613726678749185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 24, 2020</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"idbe0\">According to notes Etehad supplied the Tracker, federal agents outside the Multnomah County Justice Center deployed tear gas directly at her and a group of reporters at about 1:30 a.m. on July 24. She said the agents were about 10 feet away when they used the tear gas.</p><p data-block-key=\"3nd8n\">Following the deployment of tear gas, Etehad said she was holding up press identification to make it clear to federal agents that she was a journalist. She said she was staying away from protesters and was close enough to federal agents that they could see she was press.</p><p data-block-key=\"u25sn\">According to her notes, at 1:45 a.m. she turned around to leave the area as federal agents began moving on protesters and again firing tear gas. “That’s when I got hit by the rubber bullet,” she told the Tracker.</p><p data-block-key=\"vg4wj\">She estimated she was at least 15 feet away from the nearest protester when she was hit in the waist while trying to retreat. Etehad was wearing a high-visibility vest, a gas mask and a helmet when she was hit. She also had press credentials hanging on a lanyard around her neck and was holding them up to show agents.</p><p data-block-key=\"y0yj4\">“I’m 99% sure I was targeted,” she said, noting again that she was close enough for agents to identify her and had remained in the same spot for a while before fleeing. “I was away from the protesters. It was aimed at me. They knew I was a journalist.”</p><p data-block-key=\"y6sem\">Etehad said the projectile left a bruise that lasted several weeks and that it hurt to walk in the following days. “I got lucky,” she said.</p></div>",
"introduction": "",
"teaser": "",
"teaser_image": null,
"primary_video": null,
"image_caption": "",
"arresting_authority": null,
"arrest_status": null,
"release_date": null,
"detention_date": null,
"unnecessary_use_of_force": false,
"case_number": null,
"case_type": null,
"status_of_seized_equipment": null,
"is_search_warrant_obtained": false,
"actor": null,
"border_point": null,
"target_us_citizenship_status": null,
"denial_of_entry": false,
"stopped_previously": false,
"did_authorities_ask_for_device_access": null,
"did_authorities_ask_about_work": null,
"assailant": "law enforcement",
"was_journalist_targeted": "yes",
"charged_under_espionage_act": false,
"subpoena_type": null,
"name_of_business": null,
"third_party_business": null,
"legal_order_venue": null,
"status_of_prior_restraint": null,
"mistakenly_released_materials": false,
"links": [],
"equipment_seized": [],
"equipment_broken": [],
"state": {
"name": "Oregon",
"abbreviation": "OR"
},
"updates": [],
"case_statuses": [],
"workers_whose_communications_were_obtained": [],
"target_nationality": [],
"targeted_institutions": [],
"tags": [
"Black Lives Matter",
"chemical irritant",
"protest",
"shot / shot at"
],
"politicians_or_public_figures_involved": [],
"authors": [],
"categories": [
"Assault"
],
"targeted_journalists": [
"Melissa Etehad (Los Angeles Times)"
],
"subpoena_statuses": [],
"type_of_denial": []
},
{
"title": "Journalists hit by crowd-control rounds by federal officers in Portland",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/journalists-hit-by-crowd-control-rounds-by-federal-officers-in-portland/",
"first_published_at": "2021-10-06T20:00:31.999542Z",
"last_published_at": "2024-06-13T17:07:18.354437Z",
"latest_revision_created_at": "2024-06-13T17:07:18.278528Z",
"date": "2020-07-24",
"exact_date_unknown": false,
"city": "Portland",
"longitude": -122.67621,
"latitude": 45.52345,
"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"776ix\">KATU ABC 2 photojournalist Ric Peavyhouse was struck by crowd-control munitions fired by federal law enforcement officers during a protest in Portland, Oregon, on July 24, 2020, despite a fresh court order barring federal agents in the city from harming members of the press covering protests.</p><p data-block-key=\"mvinu\">Portland had been experiencing daily protests over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\"> documenting assaults, arrests and other incidents</a> involving journalists covering protests across the country.</p><p data-block-key=\"5qvzf\">The presence of federal law enforcement in Portland in July<a href=\"https://apnews.com/a2c8f23381dcc7e6902452b55c3048ce\"> intensified the city's regular protests</a> and the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in downtown Portland became a nightly flashpoint. A temporary restraining order from July 2 that barred Portland police from harming or impeding journalists was<a href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-ordered-not-to-assault-arrest-journalists-in-portland/\"> expanded to include federal agents</a> on July 23. Despite the expansion of the temporary restraining order, the following day numerous journalists were hit with crowd-control munitions in the vicinity of the federal courthouse as protesters again gathered there. Some said they believed they were targeted.</p><p data-block-key=\"0cyhb\">The Department of Homeland Security, which has coordinated the federal presence in Portland, didn’t respond to a request for comment. In its<a href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/07/24/portland-riots-read-out-july-24\"> “Portland Riots Read-out”</a> DHS said one federal officer was injured during the protest, which began the night of July 23 and went through the morning of July 24.</p><p data-block-key=\"779xx\">“No injuries to protestors or rioters have been reported” the statement added. It didn’t mention any injuries to journalists, despite reports some reporters were hurt.</p><p data-block-key=\"3drw6\">Peavyhouse was filming federal agents though a protective fence around the federal courthouse when he was “hit by something that felt like buckshot,”<a href=\"https://twitter.com/RPeavyhouse/status/1286572066812997633\"> he wrote on Twitter</a> at 1 a.m. alongside a video he uploaded of the incident.</p><p data-block-key=\"j0vys\"></p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Feds came out. Tear gas. I got hit by something that felt like buck shot 44 seconds in. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/PDXprotest?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PDXprotest</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/PortlandProtest?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PortlandProtest</a> <a href=\"https://t.co/efdS9p6u2V\">pic.twitter.com/efdS9p6u2V</a></p>— Ric Peavyhouse (@RPeavyhouse) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/RPeavyhouse/status/1286572066812997633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 24, 2020</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"v3wi3\">In Peavyhouse’s video, protesters can be heard taunting federal agents on the other side of the fence before the camera jerks sharply and Peavyhouse retreats.</p><p data-block-key=\"uy8gg\">At 2:15 a.m., Peavyhouse tweeted a photograph of a hospital wristband and wrote “not how you want a protest to end.” He replied to a comment saying he had something “stuck in his eye.”</p><p data-block-key=\"mzgky\"><a href=\"https://twitter.com/RPeavyhouse/status/1286792054098419713\">In a tweet that afternoon</a> Peaveyhouse wrote: “My best guess for what hit me in the eye last night was pepperball shrapnel shot at head level. Going frame-by-frame, it looks like officers shooting from the steps hit the officer in front of me and then I went down. I felt similar debris/shrapnel the other night. #pdxprotest”</p><p data-block-key=\"epgz0\">Neither Peavyhouse nor a news director at KATU ABC 2 responded to requests for comment.</p></div>",
"introduction": "",
"teaser": "",
"teaser_image": null,
"primary_video": null,
"image_caption": "",
"arresting_authority": null,
"arrest_status": null,
"release_date": null,
"detention_date": null,
"unnecessary_use_of_force": false,
"case_number": null,
"case_type": null,
"status_of_seized_equipment": null,
"is_search_warrant_obtained": false,
"actor": null,
"border_point": null,
"target_us_citizenship_status": null,
"denial_of_entry": false,
"stopped_previously": false,
"did_authorities_ask_for_device_access": null,
"did_authorities_ask_about_work": null,
"assailant": "law enforcement",
"was_journalist_targeted": "unknown",
"charged_under_espionage_act": false,
"subpoena_type": null,
"name_of_business": null,
"third_party_business": null,
"legal_order_venue": null,
"status_of_prior_restraint": null,
"mistakenly_released_materials": false,
"links": [],
"equipment_seized": [],
"equipment_broken": [],
"state": {
"name": "Oregon",
"abbreviation": "OR"
},
"updates": [],
"case_statuses": [],
"workers_whose_communications_were_obtained": [],
"target_nationality": [],
"targeted_institutions": [],
"tags": [
"Black Lives Matter",
"protest",
"shot / shot at"
],
"politicians_or_public_figures_involved": [],
"authors": [],
"categories": [
"Assault"
],
"targeted_journalists": [
"Ric Peavyhouse (KATU)"
],
"subpoena_statuses": [],
"type_of_denial": []
},
{
"title": "Journalist struck in head with projectiles despite court order in Portland",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/journalist-struck-in-head-with-projectiles-despite-court-order-in-portland/",
"first_published_at": "2021-10-06T20:04:14.078534Z",
"last_published_at": "2024-06-13T17:08:03.545303Z",
"latest_revision_created_at": "2024-06-13T17:08:03.445783Z",
"date": "2020-07-24",
"exact_date_unknown": false,
"city": "Portland",
"longitude": -122.67621,
"latitude": 45.52345,
"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"2eklg\">Jasper Florence was struck in the head with a projectile fired by federal agents while the independent journalist was documenting the protests in Portland, Oregon, on July 24, 2020, despite a fresh court order barring federal agents in the city from harming members of the press covering protests.</p><p data-block-key=\"syjfg\">Portland had been experiencing daily protests over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\"> documenting assaults, arrests and other incidents</a> involving journalists covering protests across the country.</p><p data-block-key=\"mmso1\">The presence of federal law enforcement in Portland in July<a href=\"https://apnews.com/a2c8f23381dcc7e6902452b55c3048ce\"> intensified the city's regular protests</a> and the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in downtown Portland became a nightly flashpoint. A temporary restraining order from July 2 that barred Portland police from harming or impeding journalists was<a href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-ordered-not-to-assault-arrest-journalists-in-portland/\"> expanded to include federal agents</a> on July 23. Despite the expansion of the temporary restraining order, the following day numerous journalists were hit with crowd-control munitions in the vicinity of the federal courthouse as protesters again gathered there. Some said they believed they were targeted.</p><p data-block-key=\"5x2u6\">The Department of Homeland Security, which has coordinated the federal presence in Portland, didn’t respond to a request for comment. In its<a href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/07/24/portland-riots-read-out-july-24\"> “Portland Riots Read-out”</a> DHS said one federal officer was injured during the protest, which began the night of July 23 and went through the morning of July 24.</p><p data-block-key=\"q76zv\">“No injuries to protestors or rioters have been reported” the statement added. It didn’t mention any injuries to journalists, despite reports some reporters were hurt.</p><p data-block-key=\"cs5pl\">“I have just been shot in the head,”<a href=\"https://twitter.com/JFlorencePDX/status/1286565045338439681\"> Florence tweeted at 12:33 a.m.</a></p><p data-block-key=\"axpy0\">Florence said they were on their phone writing a tweet when they were hit.</p><p data-block-key=\"24hdu\">“It was just sort of like a blunt force impact and then just powder everywhere,” said Florence, who described the projectile as larger than a pepper ball, a munition frequently used by law enforcement across the country that Florence has been hit with before.</p><p data-block-key=\"hzwa8\">Florence was wearing a helmet, but said they believed they had suffered a concussion, experiencing brain fog, difficulty thinking and migraines in the following days. The helmet was marked as “press” as was a paintball vest they were wearing that night. Florence said they believed the press markings were visible to federal agents and that the incident was targeted.</p><p data-block-key=\"te279\">Florence said later that night they were struck with what they believe was a tear gas canister in the knee, which destroyed a plastic motorcycle knee guard they were wearing. Florence said the knee remained sore for the following days but wasn’t seriously injured.</p></div>",
"introduction": "",
"teaser": "",
"teaser_image": null,
"primary_video": null,
"image_caption": "",
"arresting_authority": null,
"arrest_status": null,
"release_date": null,
"detention_date": null,
"unnecessary_use_of_force": false,
"case_number": null,
"case_type": null,
"status_of_seized_equipment": null,
"is_search_warrant_obtained": false,
"actor": null,
"border_point": null,
"target_us_citizenship_status": null,
"denial_of_entry": false,
"stopped_previously": false,
"did_authorities_ask_for_device_access": null,
"did_authorities_ask_about_work": null,
"assailant": "law enforcement",
"was_journalist_targeted": "yes",
"charged_under_espionage_act": false,
"subpoena_type": null,
"name_of_business": null,
"third_party_business": null,
"legal_order_venue": null,
"status_of_prior_restraint": null,
"mistakenly_released_materials": false,
"links": [],
"equipment_seized": [],
"equipment_broken": [],
"state": {
"name": "Oregon",
"abbreviation": "OR"
},
"updates": [],
"case_statuses": [],
"workers_whose_communications_were_obtained": [],
"target_nationality": [],
"targeted_institutions": [],
"tags": [
"Black Lives Matter",
"chemical irritant",
"protest",
"shot / shot at"
],
"politicians_or_public_figures_involved": [],
"authors": [],
"categories": [
"Assault"
],
"targeted_journalists": [
"Jasper Florence (Independent)"
],
"subpoena_statuses": [],
"type_of_denial": []
},
{
"title": "Independent journalist hit with crowd-control munitions while covering Portland protest",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/independent-journalist-hit-with-crowd-control-munitions-while-covering-portland-protest/",
"first_published_at": "2021-02-19T21:41:44.670118Z",
"last_published_at": "2024-06-13T17:06:58.209010Z",
"latest_revision_created_at": "2024-06-13T17:06:58.123803Z",
"date": "2020-07-24",
"exact_date_unknown": false,
"city": "Portland",
"longitude": -122.67621,
"latitude": 45.52345,
"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"ktvqh\">Independent social media journalist Teebs Auberdine was hit with projectiles on the legs and ankle fired by federal agents while covering protests in downtown Portland, Oregon on July 24, 2020.</p><p data-block-key=\"8bh8i\">Protests had been held in Portland on almost a nightly basis since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\"> documenting assaults, arrests and other incidents</a> involving journalists covering Black Lives Matter protests across the country.</p><p data-block-key=\"vi0kv\">The Portland protests had<a href=\"https://apnews.com/a2c8f23381dcc7e6902452b55c3048ce\"> grown more intense</a> as the presence of federal law enforcement increased in early July. A temporary restraining order on July 2 that barred the Portland police from harming or impeding journalists was<a href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-ordered-not-to-assault-arrest-journalists-in-portland/\"> expanded to include federal agents</a> on July 23.</p><p data-block-key=\"xiwmv\">Early on July 24, Auberdine was standing on the sidewalk across Southwest Third Avenue from the courthouse when federal agents came out from behind the fencing to push protesters back, Auberdine told the Tracker.</p><p data-block-key=\"ujxm8\">Auberdine said federal agents were firing projectiles to drive protesters away, and a flash-bang grenade went off less than a foot away from her, slightly below their waist to the side. She said another projectile hit her in the ankle, causing bruising and swelling.</p><p data-block-key=\"y5nqm\">Auberdine later<a href=\"https://twitter.com/TeebsGaming/status/1286607273431666689?s=20\"> posted a photograph on Twitter</a> of the black pants she was wearing that night, which were coated in residue and white powder she said was from the crowd control munitions federal agents used.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Got shot at & hit a lot tonight, I have a fresh bruise on my ankle.<br><br>I was also hit in the back of the legs with (what I'm pretty confident was) an OC canister.<br><br>Are these pants salvageable, or am I gonna ruin my laundry machine? <a href=\"https://t.co/IDVUEpLx4V\">pic.twitter.com/IDVUEpLx4V</a></p>— Teebs (@TeebsGaming) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/TeebsGaming/status/1286607273431666689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 24, 2020</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"dd5sf\">Auberdine said she was wearing a black bulletproof vest with the word “press” spelled in large white letters on the front and back. She also carried a microphone.</p><p data-block-key=\"g4y09\">The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which has coordinated the federal presence in Portland, didn’t respond to a request for comment about the incidents.</p></div>",
"introduction": "",
"teaser": "",
"teaser_image": null,
"primary_video": null,
"image_caption": "",
"arresting_authority": null,
"arrest_status": null,
"release_date": null,
"detention_date": null,
"unnecessary_use_of_force": false,
"case_number": null,
"case_type": null,
"status_of_seized_equipment": null,
"is_search_warrant_obtained": false,
"actor": null,
"border_point": null,
"target_us_citizenship_status": null,
"denial_of_entry": false,
"stopped_previously": false,
"did_authorities_ask_for_device_access": null,
"did_authorities_ask_about_work": null,
"assailant": "law enforcement",
"was_journalist_targeted": "unknown",
"charged_under_espionage_act": false,
"subpoena_type": null,
"name_of_business": null,
"third_party_business": null,
"legal_order_venue": null,
"status_of_prior_restraint": null,
"mistakenly_released_materials": false,
"links": [],
"equipment_seized": [],
"equipment_broken": [],
"state": {
"name": "Oregon",
"abbreviation": "OR"
},
"updates": [],
"case_statuses": [],
"workers_whose_communications_were_obtained": [],
"target_nationality": [],
"targeted_institutions": [],
"tags": [
"Black Lives Matter",
"protest",
"shot / shot at"
],
"politicians_or_public_figures_involved": [],
"authors": [],
"categories": [
"Assault"
],
"targeted_journalists": [
"Teebs Auberdine (Freelance)"
],
"subpoena_statuses": [],
"type_of_denial": []
},
{
"title": "Journalist struck in leg with flash-bang grenade",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/journalists-hit-crowd-control-rounds-federal-officers-portland/",
"first_published_at": "2021-01-14T15:58:47.342022Z",
"last_published_at": "2024-06-13T17:06:38.214075Z",
"latest_revision_created_at": "2024-06-13T17:06:38.131837Z",
"date": "2020-07-24",
"exact_date_unknown": false,
"city": "Portland",
"longitude": -122.67621,
"latitude": 45.52345,
"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"8zt21\">Freelance journalist Sergio Olmos said he was struck by crowd-control munitions fired by federal law enforcement officers during a protest in Portland, Oregon,on July 24, 2020, despite a fresh court order barring federal agents in the city from harming members of the press covering protests.</p><p data-block-key=\"dnlsx\">Portland had been experiencing daily protests over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\"> documenting assaults, arrests and other incidents</a> involving journalists covering protests across the country.</p><p data-block-key=\"7zleo\">The presence of federal law enforcement in Portland in July<a href=\"https://apnews.com/a2c8f23381dcc7e6902452b55c3048ce\"> intensified the city's regular protests</a> and the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in downtown Portland became a nightly flashpoint. A temporary restraining order from July 2 that barred Portland police from harming or impeding journalists was<a href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-ordered-not-to-assault-arrest-journalists-in-portland/\"> expanded to include federal agents</a> on July 23. Despite the expansion of the temporary restraining order, the following day numerous journalists were hit with crowd-control munitions in the vicinity of the federal courthouse as protesters again gathered there. Some said they believed they were targeted.</p><p data-block-key=\"kbcya\">The Department of Homeland Security, which has coordinated the federal presence in Portland, didn’t respond to a request for comment. In its<a href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/07/24/portland-riots-read-out-july-24\"> “Portland Riots Read-out”</a> DHS said one federal officer was injured during the protest, which began the night of July 23 and went through the morning of July 24.</p><p data-block-key=\"8a0qp\">“No injuries to protestors or rioters have been reported” the statement added. It didn’t mention any injuries to journalists, despite reports some reporters were hurt.</p><p data-block-key=\"ljcv5\">Olmos said he was struck in the leg with what he described as “some kind of flash bang” while filming the protest at the federal courthouse.</p><p data-block-key=\"icl6q\"><a href=\"https://twitter.com/MrOlmos/status/1286575153871167489\">In a video Olmos uploaded to Twitter</a> at 1:13 a.m., sparks can be seen flying above the journalist before a canister tumbles in front of him and a bang is heard.</p><p data-block-key=\"gksez\"></p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Some kind of flash bang goes off on my legs, it hurt enough that I had to walk off for a bit, but didn’t burn through my sambas. I’m good <a href=\"https://t.co/5A0po4jDhO\">pic.twitter.com/5A0po4jDhO</a></p>— Sergio Olmos (@MrOlmos) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/MrOlmos/status/1286575153871167489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 24, 2020</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"px6v8\">“Some kind of flash bang goes off on my legs, it hurt enough that I had to walk off for a bit, but didn’t burn through my Sambas. I’m good,” he wrote on Twitter.</p><p data-block-key=\"jdxpv\">Later, after he left downtown Portland,<a href=\"https://twitter.com/MrOlmos/status/1286609123748900870\"> Olmos shared a picture</a> of small blood spots on the back of his leg writing: “must have burned through my pants.”</p><p data-block-key=\"d35d7\">Olmos didn’t respond to requests for comment.</p></div>",
"introduction": "",
"teaser": "",
"teaser_image": null,
"primary_video": null,
"image_caption": "",
"arresting_authority": null,
"arrest_status": null,
"release_date": null,
"detention_date": null,
"unnecessary_use_of_force": false,
"case_number": null,
"case_type": null,
"status_of_seized_equipment": null,
"is_search_warrant_obtained": false,
"actor": null,
"border_point": null,
"target_us_citizenship_status": null,
"denial_of_entry": false,
"stopped_previously": false,
"did_authorities_ask_for_device_access": null,
"did_authorities_ask_about_work": null,
"assailant": "law enforcement",
"was_journalist_targeted": "unknown",
"charged_under_espionage_act": false,
"subpoena_type": null,
"name_of_business": null,
"third_party_business": null,
"legal_order_venue": null,
"status_of_prior_restraint": null,
"mistakenly_released_materials": false,
"links": [],
"equipment_seized": [],
"equipment_broken": [],
"state": {
"name": "Oregon",
"abbreviation": "OR"
},
"updates": [],
"case_statuses": [],
"workers_whose_communications_were_obtained": [],
"target_nationality": [],
"targeted_institutions": [],
"tags": [
"Black Lives Matter",
"protest"
],
"politicians_or_public_figures_involved": [],
"authors": [],
"categories": [
"Assault"
],
"targeted_journalists": [
"Sergio Olmos (Freelance)"
],
"subpoena_statuses": [],
"type_of_denial": []
},
{
"title": "Journalist hit with multiple projectiles despite court order in Portland",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/journalists-hit-projectiles-despite-court-order-portland/",
"first_published_at": "2021-01-14T15:55:06.986827Z",
"last_published_at": "2024-06-13T17:06:16.587224Z",
"latest_revision_created_at": "2024-06-13T17:06:16.512827Z",
"date": "2020-07-24",
"exact_date_unknown": false,
"city": "Portland",
"longitude": -122.67621,
"latitude": 45.52345,
"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"luyjc\">Independent journalist Brian Conley was struck with crowd-control munitions fired by federal agents and said he also was targeted with a tear gas canister during a protest in Portland, Oregon, on July 24, 2020, despite a fresh court order barring federal agents in the city from harming members of the press covering protests.</p><p data-block-key=\"txfr5\">Portland had been experiencing daily protests over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\"> documenting assaults, arrests and other incidents</a> involving journalists covering protests across the country.</p><p data-block-key=\"vjcvv\">The presence of federal law enforcement in Portland in July<a href=\"https://apnews.com/a2c8f23381dcc7e6902452b55c3048ce\"> intensified the city's regular protests</a> and the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in downtown Portland became a nightly flashpoint. A temporary restraining order from July 2 that barred Portland police from harming or impeding journalists was<a href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-ordered-not-to-assault-arrest-journalists-in-portland/\"> expanded to include federal agents</a> on July 23. Despite the expansion of the temporary restraining order, the following day numerous journalists were hit with crowd-control munitions in the vicinity of the federal courthouse as protesters again gathered there. Some said they believed they were targeted.</p><p data-block-key=\"u1x0q\">The Department of Homeland Security, which has coordinated the federal presence in Portland, didn’t respond to a request for comment. In its<a href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/07/24/portland-riots-read-out-july-24\"> “Portland Riots Read-out”</a> DHS said one federal officer was injured during the protest, which began the night of July 23 and went through the morning of July 24.</p><p data-block-key=\"lai2y\">“No injuries to protestors or rioters have been reported” the statement added. It didn’t mention any injuries to journalists, despite reports some reporters were hurt.</p><p data-block-key=\"2xma8\">At about 4 a.m., Conley said he was filming a line of federal agents outside the federal courthouse at the corner of Southwest Third Avenue and Southwest Salmon Street. In a statement that is part of an<a href=\"https://aclu-or.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/07282020_declarations_motion_sanctions.pdf\"> ACLU suit Conley has joined</a>, he wrote that the crowd was sparse and “mostly press.”</p><p data-block-key=\"yo5ui\"><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMI5UXYXmDg&feature=youtu.be\">Video shot by Conley</a> shows a protester approaching federal agents and dancing in front of them while holding flowers. After several minutes, federal agents can be seen grabbing the protester. As other protesters tried to intervene and wrest the detained protester from the agents, the officers began firing crowd-control munitions.</p><p data-block-key=\"gqcjb\">“Suddenly, without warning, the federal agent at the Courthouse shot me multiple times in my chest and my foot with incredibly painful impact munitions,” Conley wrote. “I was not in front of the few remaining protestors. There was nobody else nearby except press and a few medics. The pain was immense, but I continued to document what was happening.”</p><p data-block-key=\"17m8k\">In the video, Conley can be heard yelling “Press! Press! Right here man, press!”</p><p data-block-key=\"rgfak\">He said he was wearing a photographer’s vest and helmet with press markings and was filming with a large camera.</p><p data-block-key=\"2mvwc\">“I was very much there as a member of the press,” he told the Tracker. “I was doing my best to stay away from protesters.”</p><p data-block-key=\"9tikj\">After several minutes, federal agents went inside the protective fence surrounding the courthouse.</p><p data-block-key=\"jki5p\">In the video, Conley can be heard saying: “So let’s be clear, I was definitely just shot multiple times despite announcing that I was press, despite being a plaintiff in a federal complaint. I was not directly in front of the protesters, I was keeping my distance.”</p><p data-block-key=\"mk0ar\">Soon after, he said a tear gas canister was deployed directly at his head.</p><p data-block-key=\"fb3t5\">“There was no warning. It was shooting flames and exploded above me,” he wrote in a statement that is part of the ACLU suit.</p></div>",
"introduction": "",
"teaser": "",
"teaser_image": null,
"primary_video": null,
"image_caption": "",
"arresting_authority": null,
"arrest_status": null,
"release_date": null,
"detention_date": null,
"unnecessary_use_of_force": false,
"case_number": null,
"case_type": null,
"status_of_seized_equipment": null,
"is_search_warrant_obtained": false,
"actor": null,
"border_point": null,
"target_us_citizenship_status": null,
"denial_of_entry": false,
"stopped_previously": false,
"did_authorities_ask_for_device_access": null,
"did_authorities_ask_about_work": null,
"assailant": "law enforcement",
"was_journalist_targeted": "yes",
"charged_under_espionage_act": false,
"subpoena_type": null,
"name_of_business": null,
"third_party_business": null,
"legal_order_venue": null,
"status_of_prior_restraint": null,
"mistakenly_released_materials": false,
"links": [],
"equipment_seized": [],
"equipment_broken": [],
"state": {
"name": "Oregon",
"abbreviation": "OR"
},
"updates": [],
"case_statuses": [],
"workers_whose_communications_were_obtained": [],
"target_nationality": [],
"targeted_institutions": [],
"tags": [
"Black Lives Matter",
"protest",
"shot / shot at"
],
"politicians_or_public_figures_involved": [],
"authors": [],
"categories": [
"Assault"
],
"targeted_journalists": [
"Brian Conley (Freelance)"
],
"subpoena_statuses": [],
"type_of_denial": []
},
{
"title": "OPB reporter struck in hand with projectile while covering Portland protest",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/opb-reporter-struck-hand-projectile-while-covering-portland-protest/",
"first_published_at": "2021-01-14T15:45:19.958419Z",
"last_published_at": "2024-06-13T17:05:57.543181Z",
"latest_revision_created_at": "2024-06-13T17:05:57.463069Z",
"date": "2020-07-24",
"exact_date_unknown": false,
"city": "Portland",
"longitude": -122.67621,
"latitude": 45.52345,
"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"81qb6\">Oregon Public Broadcasting reporter Rebecca Ellis was one of at least eight journalists struck by crowd-control munitions fired by federal law enforcement officers during a protest in Portland, Oregon on July 24, 2020, despite a fresh court order barring federal agents in the city from harming members of the press covering protests.</p><p data-block-key=\"qgsq3\">Portland had been experiencing daily protests over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\"> documenting assaults, arrests and other incidents</a> involving journalists covering protests across the country.</p><p data-block-key=\"g7i79\">The presence of federal law enforcement in Portland in July<a href=\"https://apnews.com/a2c8f23381dcc7e6902452b55c3048ce\"> intensified the city's regular protests</a> and the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in downtown Portland became a nightly flashpoint. A temporary restraining order from July 2 that barred Portland police from harming or impeding journalists was<a href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-ordered-not-to-assault-arrest-journalists-in-portland/\"> expanded to include federal agents</a> on July 23. Despite the expansion of the temporary restraining order, the following day numerous journalists were hit with crowd control munitions in the vicinity of the federal courthouse as protesters again gathered there. Some said they believed they were targeted.</p><p data-block-key=\"21dl9\">The Department of Homeland Security, which has coordinated the federal presence in Portland, didn’t respond to a request for comment. In its<a href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/07/24/portland-riots-read-out-july-24\"> “Portland Riots Read-out”</a> DHS said one federal officer was injured during the protest, which began the night of July 23 and went through the morning of July 24.</p><p data-block-key=\"fy7nh\">“No injuries to protestors or rioters have been reported” the statement added. It didn’t mention any injuries to journalists, despite reports some reporters were hurt.</p><p data-block-key=\"7hkz9\">Ellis was struck with a projectile fired by federal agents as she filmed them advancing at the intersection of Southwest Main Street and Southwest Third Avenue next to the federal courthouse.</p><p data-block-key=\"b1hdy\"><a href=\"https://twitter.com/Rjaellis/status/1286578718693978113\">A video posted to Twitter</a> by Ellis at 1:27 a.m. shows federal agents firing several projectiles that appear to be tear-gas canisters as they advance down Southwest Main. The video shakes and Ellis can be heard exclaiming “ow!” as one of the projectiles strikes her in the hand.</p><p data-block-key=\"rm342\">“Feds approaching and just got shot in hand trying to film. Don’t think that TRO worked,” she wrote on Twitter alongside the video, referencing the temporary restraining order.</p><p data-block-key=\"oh5k0\">She told the Tracker she was wearing a lanyard with press credentials and was standing alongside other journalists in front of a huge crowd of protesters behind her. She believes police were attempting to fire at protesters.</p><p data-block-key=\"vjk55\">She said the projectile left “a little mark for a few days, it wasn’t anything serious at all.”</p></div>",
"introduction": "",
"teaser": "",
"teaser_image": null,
"primary_video": null,
"image_caption": "",
"arresting_authority": null,
"arrest_status": null,
"release_date": null,
"detention_date": null,
"unnecessary_use_of_force": false,
"case_number": null,
"case_type": null,
"status_of_seized_equipment": null,
"is_search_warrant_obtained": false,
"actor": null,
"border_point": null,
"target_us_citizenship_status": null,
"denial_of_entry": false,
"stopped_previously": false,
"did_authorities_ask_for_device_access": null,
"did_authorities_ask_about_work": null,
"assailant": "law enforcement",
"was_journalist_targeted": "no",
"charged_under_espionage_act": false,
"subpoena_type": null,
"name_of_business": null,
"third_party_business": null,
"legal_order_venue": null,
"status_of_prior_restraint": null,
"mistakenly_released_materials": false,
"links": [],
"equipment_seized": [],
"equipment_broken": [],
"state": {
"name": "Oregon",
"abbreviation": "OR"
},
"updates": [],
"case_statuses": [],
"workers_whose_communications_were_obtained": [],
"target_nationality": [],
"targeted_institutions": [],
"tags": [
"Black Lives Matter",
"chemical irritant",
"protest",
"shot / shot at"
],
"politicians_or_public_figures_involved": [],
"authors": [],
"categories": [
"Assault"
],
"targeted_journalists": [
"Rebecca Ellis (Oregon Public Broadcasting)"
],
"subpoena_statuses": [],
"type_of_denial": []
},
{
"title": "Federal agents hit freelance photojournalist with crowd-control munitions during Portland protest",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/federal-agents-hit-freelance-photojournalist-crowd-control-munitions-during-portland-protest/",
"first_published_at": "2020-12-24T20:08:29.434146Z",
"last_published_at": "2024-06-10T19:59:53.653075Z",
"latest_revision_created_at": "2024-06-10T19:59:53.556877Z",
"date": "2020-07-24",
"exact_date_unknown": false,
"city": "Portland",
"longitude": -122.67621,
"latitude": 45.52345,
"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"12oj1\">Freelance photojournalist Lee Smith said he was hit with crowd-control munitions shot by federal agents while he covered protests against police violence in Portland, Oregon, on July 24, 2020.</p><p data-block-key=\"ykehb\">Smith was documenting protests that continued for months in downtown Portland and across the U.S. in support of the Black Lives Matter movement following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\">documenting assaults, arrests and other incidents</a> involving journalists covering protests.</p><p data-block-key=\"24xz7\">On the evening of July 23, demonstrators gathered outside the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse where law enforcement had constructed a fence around the perimeter. According to <a href=\"https://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-protest-naacp-black-lives-matter/\">news reports</a>, federal officers occasionally warned protesters when they shook or hit the fence. The officers later fired pepper balls at the protesters. At 12:30 a.m. on July 24, Portland Police declared an unlawful assembly after firework mortars and other objects had been launched over the fence, according to a <a href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/07/23/portland-riots-read-out-july-23\">report</a> from the Department of Homeland Security.</p><p data-block-key=\"ka6d9\">Smith told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker federal agents had conducted numerous pushes throughout the night to disperse the protesters, but mostly stayed behind the fence, <a href=\"https://twitter.com/LeeSmithPDX/status/1286305602969300992\">deploying tear gas</a>, pepper balls and other crowd-control munitions. Officers also positioned themselves on top of the courthouse with long-range flashlights that would emit green lasers, which Smith said law enforcement was using to point out particular individuals.</p><p data-block-key=\"m3slh\">“They kept singling me and a couple of people out, targeting specific press and activists,” he said. Smith said he had distinct “press” markings on his helmet and backpack and wore a press pass issued by Raindrop Works, a Portland-based site that has covered the protests there. “Eventually that person was either arrested or shot with munitions,” he said, of those picked out by the green lasers.</p><p data-block-key=\"gm7vz\">In a <a href=\"https://twitter.com/LeeSmithPDX/status/1286628772054102018\">video</a> Smith tweeted later that morning, there is a loud bang at 0:48 and the camera jerks. He can be heard saying, “They just hit me again.” Smith said his press pass had been hit by a canister that exploded and <a href=\"https://twitter.com/LeeSmithPDX/status/1286616559973105665\">shattered the case</a>.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Feds exploded a CS triple chaser on my chest. Shattering the case my press pass was in. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/FedsOut?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FedsOut</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/PortlandProtest?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PortlandProtest</a> <a href=\"https://t.co/hysSDYqobp\">pic.twitter.com/hysSDYqobp</a></p>— Lee “Threat level -7” Smith (@LeeSmithPDX) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/LeeSmithPDX/status/1286616559973105665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 24, 2020</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"yylq5\">Smith said he was shot at least 12 times that night by a variety of crowd-control munitions, including <a href=\"https://twitter.com/LeeSmithPDX/status/1286619188014936064\">pepper balls</a> and foam rounds. He said the hits left bruises across his body, especially on his chest. He said he also suffered effects from tear gas and pepper spray, and he told the Tracker that at some point his iPhone 6S camera was broken.</p><p data-block-key=\"zkx4z\">Smith’s injuries came just hours after a judge’s July 23 preliminary injunction barred federal agents from harming or impeding journalists. The ruling was upheld by an appeals court in October.</p><p data-block-key=\"t3l2g\">The Department of Homeland Security didn’t respond to a request for comment on the incidents.</p></div>",
"introduction": "",
"teaser": "",
"teaser_image": null,
"primary_video": null,
"image_caption": "",
"arresting_authority": null,
"arrest_status": null,
"release_date": null,
"detention_date": null,
"unnecessary_use_of_force": false,
"case_number": null,
"case_type": null,
"status_of_seized_equipment": null,
"is_search_warrant_obtained": false,
"actor": "law enforcement",
"border_point": null,
"target_us_citizenship_status": null,
"denial_of_entry": false,
"stopped_previously": false,
"did_authorities_ask_for_device_access": null,
"did_authorities_ask_about_work": null,
"assailant": "law enforcement",
"was_journalist_targeted": "yes",
"charged_under_espionage_act": false,
"subpoena_type": null,
"name_of_business": null,
"third_party_business": null,
"legal_order_venue": null,
"status_of_prior_restraint": null,
"mistakenly_released_materials": false,
"links": [],
"equipment_seized": [],
"equipment_broken": [
{
"quantity": 1,
"equipment": "cellphone"
},
{
"quantity": 1,
"equipment": "press identification"
}
],
"state": {
"name": "Oregon",
"abbreviation": "OR"
},
"updates": [],
"case_statuses": [],
"workers_whose_communications_were_obtained": [],
"target_nationality": [],
"targeted_institutions": [],
"tags": [
"Black Lives Matter",
"chemical irritant",
"protest",
"shot / shot at"
],
"politicians_or_public_figures_involved": [],
"authors": [],
"categories": [
"Assault",
"Equipment Damage"
],
"targeted_journalists": [
"Lee Smith (Freelance)"
],
"subpoena_statuses": [],
"type_of_denial": []
},
{
"title": "Photojournalist hit with tear gas canister",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/photojournalist-hit-with-tear-gas-canister/",
"first_published_at": "2021-10-06T17:29:21.967101Z",
"last_published_at": "2024-06-13T17:09:55.051426Z",
"latest_revision_created_at": "2024-06-13T17:09:54.939076Z",
"date": "2020-07-23",
"exact_date_unknown": false,
"city": "Portland",
"longitude": -122.67621,
"latitude": 45.52345,
"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"fkh9u\">Photojournalist Mathieu Lewis-Rolland said he was hit in the chest with a tear gas canister deployed by federal agents while he was covering protests in downtown Portland, Oregon, early on July 23, 2020.</p><p data-block-key=\"ga46f\">Protests had been held in Portland on almost a nightly basis since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\"> documenting assaults, arrests and other incidents</a> involving journalists covering BLM protests across the country.</p><p data-block-key=\"vrzvj\">The Portland protests had<a href=\"https://apnews.com/a2c8f23381dcc7e6902452b55c3048ce\"> grown more intense</a> as the presence of federal law enforcement increased in early July. A temporary restraining order on July 2 that barred the Portland police from harming or impeding journalists wasn’t<a href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-ordered-not-to-assault-arrest-journalists-in-portland/\"> expanded to include federal agents</a> until July 23. Lewis-Rolland is a<a href=\"https://www.docketbird.com/court-documents/Index-Newspapers-LLC-et-al-v-City-of-Portland-et-al/Exhibit-1/ord-3:2020-cv-01035-00155-001\"> plaintiff</a> in a class-action lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon.</p><p data-block-key=\"jolpg\">Lewis-Rolland, whose work has been published by the Portland Mercury, The New York Times and Reuters, said he was struck in the chest with a tear gas canister fired by federal agents early the morning of July 23.</p><p data-block-key=\"nka4t\"><a href=\"https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b8afqnh3ayem8dy/AAC8Tda1Q-c0VU75tQJ8r9i0a?dl=0&preview=07-23-2020+Feds+hit+me+directly+with+tear+gas.mp4\">Video shared by Lewis-Rolland</a> with the Tracker shows canisters of tear gas being shot down the middle of an empty street, when sparks suddenly fly close to the frame. Lewis-Rolland abruptly jerks his camera, and as he moves away, a tear gas canister is visible on the sidewalk.</p><p data-block-key=\"4wauy\">In an <a href=\"https://www.docketbird.com/court-documents/Index-Newspapers-LLC-et-al-v-City-of-Portland-et-al/Exhibit-1/ord-3:2020-cv-01035-00155-001\">Aug. 10 document</a> filed in the ACLU lawsuit, Lewis-Rolland said that the canister struck him.</p><p data-block-key=\"n90ra\">According to the court papers, when he was covering protests in Portland at that time in July he had started wearing a fluorescent vest with a transparent pocket, where he displayed a press badge issued by the Portland Mercury. He also wore a helmet and backpack with the word “PRESS” written in several places.</p><p data-block-key=\"r4wq5\">The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which has coordinated the federal presence in Portland, didn’t respond to a request for comment about the incidents.</p></div>",
"introduction": "",
"teaser": "",
"teaser_image": null,
"primary_video": null,
"image_caption": "",
"arresting_authority": null,
"arrest_status": null,
"release_date": null,
"detention_date": null,
"unnecessary_use_of_force": false,
"case_number": null,
"case_type": null,
"status_of_seized_equipment": null,
"is_search_warrant_obtained": false,
"actor": null,
"border_point": null,
"target_us_citizenship_status": null,
"denial_of_entry": false,
"stopped_previously": false,
"did_authorities_ask_for_device_access": null,
"did_authorities_ask_about_work": null,
"assailant": "law enforcement",
"was_journalist_targeted": "yes",
"charged_under_espionage_act": false,
"subpoena_type": null,
"name_of_business": null,
"third_party_business": null,
"legal_order_venue": null,
"status_of_prior_restraint": null,
"mistakenly_released_materials": false,
"links": [],
"equipment_seized": [],
"equipment_broken": [],
"state": {
"name": "Oregon",
"abbreviation": "OR"
},
"updates": [],
"case_statuses": [],
"workers_whose_communications_were_obtained": [],
"target_nationality": [],
"targeted_institutions": [],
"tags": [
"Black Lives Matter",
"chemical irritant",
"protest",
"shot / shot at"
],
"politicians_or_public_figures_involved": [],
"authors": [],
"categories": [
"Assault"
],
"targeted_journalists": [
"Mathieu Lewis-Rolland (Independent)"
],
"subpoena_statuses": [],
"type_of_denial": []
},
{
"title": "Photojournalist hit twice with pepper balls while covering a Portland protest",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/photojournalist-hit-twice-with-pepper-balls-while-covering-a-portland-protest/",
"first_published_at": "2021-02-22T20:40:28.198378Z",
"last_published_at": "2024-06-13T17:09:31.033189Z",
"latest_revision_created_at": "2024-06-13T17:09:30.947046Z",
"date": "2020-07-23",
"exact_date_unknown": false,
"city": "Portland",
"longitude": -122.67621,
"latitude": 45.52345,
"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"oin08\">Freelance photojournalist Nathan Howard was hit twice with pepper balls fired by federal agents while he was covering a protest in Portland, Oregon, in the early hours of July 23, 2020.</p><p data-block-key=\"xo9p4\">Protests had been held in Portland on almost a nightly basis since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\"> documenting assaults, arrests and other incidents</a> involving journalists covering BLM protests across the country.</p><p data-block-key=\"y4z2z\">The Portland protests had<a href=\"https://apnews.com/a2c8f23381dcc7e6902452b55c3048ce\"> grown more intense</a> as the presence of federal law enforcement increased in early July. A temporary restraining order on July 2 that barred the Portland police from harming or impeding journalists wasn’t<a href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-ordered-not-to-assault-arrest-journalists-in-portland/\"> expanded to include federal agents</a> until July 23. Howard testified about <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/photojournalists-hit-projectiles-while-covering-portland-protest/\">another incident</a> to support the class action lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon, that led to the TRO.</p><p data-block-key=\"0gn57\">Thousands were protesting in downtown Portland on the evening of July 22, when Mayor Ted Wheeler attended and was hit with tear gas alongside demonstrators, <a href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/US/riot-declared-portland-mayor-crowd-feds-disperse-tear/story?id=71937598\">ABC News</a> reported. Protesters continued to demonstrate outside the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse past midnight, with the Portland police declaring an “unlawful assembly” at around 12:30 a.m.</p><p data-block-key=\"xcio5\">Howard was outside the courthouse sometime between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. when a protester who had breached a metal fence surrounding the federal building was injured, he told the Tracker. As two other protesters carried him out, Howard said, federal officers came out of the building to arrest a woman who was inside the fence.</p><p data-block-key=\"8ga1z\">Howard, who was on assignment for Getty Images, said he ran up to photograph the arrest. As he was taking pictures, he said, agents shot him with pepper balls through the fence. After briefly backing away from the fence, he approached again to continue taking photos and was hit with a second burst of pepper balls.</p><p data-block-key=\"so7f0\">In a <a href=\"https://twitter.com/PDocumentarians/status/1286218168566857730?s=20\">video</a> posted on Twitter by photojournalist Justin Yau at 1:34 a.m., Howard, wearing jeans and a green shirt, can be seen approaching the fence and looking through his camera. About 12 seconds into the video, Howard steps back as a burst of white powder comes through the fence. When he approaches again, more powder bursts through.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Several have just been arrested. Federal agents rushed out of the building and grabbed several on the portico. This female protester can be heard screaming as she is dragged away. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/PortlandProtest?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PortlandProtest</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/PDXprotests?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PDXprotests</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/BLACKLIVESMATTER?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BLACKLIVESMATTER</a> <a href=\"https://t.co/upP2iYZQif\">pic.twitter.com/upP2iYZQif</a></p>— Justin Yau (@PDocumentarians) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/PDocumentarians/status/1286218168566857730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 23, 2020</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"w2han\">The impact of the pepper balls left him with welts and cuts on his forearms, which were exposed, and also caused him to cough.</p><p data-block-key=\"xcru0\">“The way that it works when they’ve got the fence up is they fire through it and it shreds the pepper balls as it goes through, so they kind of like shrapnel into you,” he told the Tracker, adding that his equipment wasn’t damaged.</p><p data-block-key=\"tttqo\">While Howard was wearing press identification at the time, he said he doesn’t think he was targeted as press.</p><p data-block-key=\"goqlk\">The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which has coordinated the federal presence in Portland, didn’t respond to a request for comment about the incidents.</p></div>",
"introduction": "",
"teaser": "",
"teaser_image": null,
"primary_video": null,
"image_caption": "",
"arresting_authority": null,
"arrest_status": null,
"release_date": null,
"detention_date": null,
"unnecessary_use_of_force": false,
"case_number": null,
"case_type": null,
"status_of_seized_equipment": null,
"is_search_warrant_obtained": false,
"actor": null,
"border_point": null,
"target_us_citizenship_status": null,
"denial_of_entry": false,
"stopped_previously": false,
"did_authorities_ask_for_device_access": null,
"did_authorities_ask_about_work": null,
"assailant": "law enforcement",
"was_journalist_targeted": "no",
"charged_under_espionage_act": false,
"subpoena_type": null,
"name_of_business": null,
"third_party_business": null,
"legal_order_venue": null,
"status_of_prior_restraint": null,
"mistakenly_released_materials": false,
"links": [],
"equipment_seized": [],
"equipment_broken": [],
"state": {
"name": "Oregon",
"abbreviation": "OR"
},
"updates": [],
"case_statuses": [],
"workers_whose_communications_were_obtained": [],
"target_nationality": [],
"targeted_institutions": [],
"tags": [
"Black Lives Matter",
"chemical irritant",
"protest",
"shot / shot at"
],
"politicians_or_public_figures_involved": [],
"authors": [],
"categories": [
"Assault"
],
"targeted_journalists": [
"Nathan Howard (Getty Images)"
],
"subpoena_statuses": [],
"type_of_denial": []
},
{
"title": "Journalist’s ribs fractured by projectiles during Portland protest",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/federal-officers-target-independent-journalists-with-pepper-balls-tear-gas/",
"first_published_at": "2021-02-19T21:10:34.923556Z",
"last_published_at": "2024-06-13T17:09:08.175741Z",
"latest_revision_created_at": "2024-06-13T17:09:08.095697Z",
"date": "2020-07-23",
"exact_date_unknown": false,
"city": "Portland",
"longitude": -122.67621,
"latitude": 45.52345,
"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"c8o3d\">Reporter and photojournalist Shauna Sowersby said she was targeted with crowd-control munitions by federal agents while she was covering protests in downtown Portland, Oregon, early on July 23, 2020.</p><p data-block-key=\"lc5s3\">Protests had been held in Portland on almost a nightly basis since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\"> documenting assaults, arrests and other incidents</a> involving journalists covering BLM protests across the country.</p><p data-block-key=\"kaylh\">The Portland protests had<a href=\"https://apnews.com/a2c8f23381dcc7e6902452b55c3048ce\"> grown more intense</a> as the presence of federal law enforcement increased in early July. A temporary restraining order on July 2 that barred the Portland police from harming or impeding journalists wasn’t<a href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-ordered-not-to-assault-arrest-journalists-in-portland/\"> expanded to include federal agents</a> until July 23. The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon filed a class-action lawsuit.</p><p data-block-key=\"1g6kw\">Sowersby, whose work has been published by the Daily Beast, KNKX Public Radio and the Pacific Northwest nonprofit news outlet Crosscut, was near the right side of the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse early that morning.</p><p data-block-key=\"rz0w3\">When federal agents approached the crowd and began shooting pepper balls, an officer aimed one directly at her, which hit her on her ribs, she <a href=\"https://twitter.com/Shauna_Sowersby/status/1286229708296790016\">posted on Twitter</a> at 2:20 a.m.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Went off to the side to take photos (not on federal property) and got hit directly in the ribs by an officer shooting pepperballs. I’m clearly marked as “press.” The spot is welting and bruising already, holy shit it hurts. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/PortlandProtest?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PortlandProtest</a></p>— Shauna Sowersby (@Shauna_Sowersby) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/Shauna_Sowersby/status/1286229708296790016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 23, 2020</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"riy8d\">“At the moment, I kind of blacked out for a second because it's very painful,” she told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.</p><p data-block-key=\"zp7jy\">Sowersby said she felt that police clearly aimed the pepper ball directly at her, and she was targeted as a member of the press. She said she was holding her camera and wearing a press badge, and was clearly marked as a member of the media.</p><p data-block-key=\"uaw2p\">After leaving the scene briefly, she said she went back to cover the protests, still affected by her injury.</p><p data-block-key=\"crl6k\">“You're just kind of running on adrenaline at that point right so you get back in and I covered the rest of the night everything, but it was very painful,” she said.</p><p data-block-key=\"ocsrd\">A <a href=\"https://twitter.com/Shauna_Sowersby/status/1286229708296790016\">photograph she posted on Twitter</a> later that morning showed a red welt on her torso where she was struck. A few days later, she went to the emergency room and was told by doctors she had sustained a small rib fracture and rib contusion, she said.</p><p data-block-key=\"95bsf\">Sowersby said that she hasn’t pursued any action against the federal agencies to recover her medical costs, which totaled around a couple thousand dollars. She told the Tracker she thinks it is unlikely that filing a complaint or trying to recover the costs would have any effect.</p><p data-block-key=\"h3euz\">The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which has coordinated the federal presence in Portland, didn’t respond to a request for comment about the incidents.</p></div>",
"introduction": "",
"teaser": "",
"teaser_image": null,
"primary_video": null,
"image_caption": "",
"arresting_authority": null,
"arrest_status": null,
"release_date": null,
"detention_date": null,
"unnecessary_use_of_force": false,
"case_number": null,
"case_type": null,
"status_of_seized_equipment": null,
"is_search_warrant_obtained": false,
"actor": null,
"border_point": null,
"target_us_citizenship_status": null,
"denial_of_entry": false,
"stopped_previously": false,
"did_authorities_ask_for_device_access": null,
"did_authorities_ask_about_work": null,
"assailant": "law enforcement",
"was_journalist_targeted": "yes",
"charged_under_espionage_act": false,
"subpoena_type": null,
"name_of_business": null,
"third_party_business": null,
"legal_order_venue": null,
"status_of_prior_restraint": null,
"mistakenly_released_materials": false,
"links": [],
"equipment_seized": [],
"equipment_broken": [],
"state": {
"name": "Oregon",
"abbreviation": "OR"
},
"updates": [],
"case_statuses": [],
"workers_whose_communications_were_obtained": [],
"target_nationality": [],
"targeted_institutions": [],
"tags": [
"Black Lives Matter",
"chemical irritant",
"protest",
"shot / shot at"
],
"politicians_or_public_figures_involved": [],
"authors": [],
"categories": [
"Assault"
],
"targeted_journalists": [
"Shauna Sowersby (Freelance)"
],
"subpoena_statuses": [],
"type_of_denial": []
},
{
"title": "Independent journalist injured while covering Portland protest",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/independent-journalist-injured-while-covering-portland-protest/",
"first_published_at": "2021-10-06T17:27:53.200910Z",
"last_published_at": "2024-06-13T17:13:00.037867Z",
"latest_revision_created_at": "2024-06-13T17:12:59.960773Z",
"date": "2020-07-22",
"exact_date_unknown": false,
"city": "Portland",
"longitude": -122.67621,
"latitude": 45.52345,
"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"wezbh\">Rosie Riddle said she was targeted with projectiles by federal agents in Portland, Oregon, on July 22, 2020, causing injuries that forced her to temporarily stop reporting on the demonstrations.</p><p data-block-key=\"hcbg3\">Protests had been held in Portland on almost a nightly basis since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\">documenting assaults, arrests and other incidents</a> involving journalists covering BLM protests across the country.</p><p data-block-key=\"3b9cd\">The Portland protests had <a href=\"https://apnews.com/a2c8f23381dcc7e6902452b55c3048ce\">grown more intense</a> as the presence of federal law enforcement increased in early July. A temporary restraining order on July 2 that barred the Portland police from harming or impeding journalists wasn’t <a href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-ordered-not-to-assault-arrest-journalists-in-portland/\">expanded to include federal agents</a> until July 23. Rudoff is a <a href=\"https://aclu-or.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/declaration_of_john_rudoff.pdf\">plaintiff</a> in the class-action lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon, that led to the ban.</p><p data-block-key=\"8gqv2\">On the night of July 21, the “Wall of Moms” and thousands of other demonstrators converged on the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse downtown, where frequent confrontations between protesters and federal agents continued into the early hours of the next morning, according to the local <a href=\"https://www.kptv.com/news/portland-protests-day-55-demonstrators-gather-to-chant-feds-go-home-crowds-dispersed-with-tear/article_abe8fd16-cbd6-11ea-bbf4-6b1f182fe188.html\">KPTV</a> news station.</p><p data-block-key=\"72odx\">A little after 2 a.m on the 22nd, Riddle was outside the courthouse, at the intersection of Southwest Third Avenue and Southwest Salmon Street, when she was hit with crowd-control munitions fired by federal agents, she said.</p><p data-block-key=\"chlpt\">Riddle was struck after a protester threw a tear gas canister back at federal agents and ran behind her, she told the Tracker. The officers fired pepper balls, hitting Riddle twice in the stomach.</p><p data-block-key=\"v86bz\">“I don’t know if the cop was trying to shoot through me or misfired or whatever,” she said.</p><p data-block-key=\"qkpct\">After briefly retreating a few blocks to assess her injury, Riddle returned and continued taking pictures, she said. The situation was calm when she returned, she added, with protesters staying far behind her and away from the federal agents.</p><p data-block-key=\"t6a4f\">But soon after she returned, Riddle was hit again by crowd-control munitions in the leg, she said, adding that she believes the same agent hit her both times.</p><p data-block-key=\"27efs\">“I was pretty much alone up there,” she said, noting that no protesters were close to her. “It was just me up there trying to take pictures of the line while nothing was happening.”</p><p data-block-key=\"oho61\">Riddle, who was wearing a helmet marked “press” in large white letters and was displaying two red press passes, believes she was targeted the second time she was hit.</p><p data-block-key=\"bvy10\">The projectile hit the left side of her right calf, causing her to bleed and making it difficult to walk, she told the Tracker, so she stopped reporting to find a medic. The wound was swollen and seeped for a week, she said, adding that she had trouble walking for several weeks and took a week off of reporting due to the injury. The injury left Riddle with a scar that she says still “throbs” when she walks uphill.</p><p data-block-key=\"opjrf\">The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which has coordinated the federal presence in Portland, didn’t respond to a request for comment about the incidents.</p></div>",
"introduction": "",
"teaser": "",
"teaser_image": null,
"primary_video": null,
"image_caption": "",
"arresting_authority": null,
"arrest_status": null,
"release_date": null,
"detention_date": null,
"unnecessary_use_of_force": false,
"case_number": null,
"case_type": null,
"status_of_seized_equipment": null,
"is_search_warrant_obtained": false,
"actor": null,
"border_point": null,
"target_us_citizenship_status": null,
"denial_of_entry": false,
"stopped_previously": false,
"did_authorities_ask_for_device_access": null,
"did_authorities_ask_about_work": null,
"assailant": "law enforcement",
"was_journalist_targeted": "yes",
"charged_under_espionage_act": false,
"subpoena_type": null,
"name_of_business": null,
"third_party_business": null,
"legal_order_venue": null,
"status_of_prior_restraint": null,
"mistakenly_released_materials": false,
"links": [],
"equipment_seized": [],
"equipment_broken": [],
"state": {
"name": "Oregon",
"abbreviation": "OR"
},
"updates": [],
"case_statuses": [],
"workers_whose_communications_were_obtained": [],
"target_nationality": [],
"targeted_institutions": [],
"tags": [
"Black Lives Matter",
"chemical irritant",
"protest",
"shot / shot at"
],
"politicians_or_public_figures_involved": [],
"authors": [],
"categories": [
"Assault"
],
"targeted_journalists": [
"Rosie Riddle (Freelance)"
],
"subpoena_statuses": [],
"type_of_denial": []
},
{
"title": "Journalist shoved by law enforcement officers while covering a Portland protest",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/45-absurdist-brigade-journalist-shoved-by-law-enforcement-officers-while-covering-a-portland-protest/",
"first_published_at": "2021-10-06T16:31:20.380765Z",
"last_published_at": "2024-06-13T17:12:33.822695Z",
"latest_revision_created_at": "2024-06-13T17:12:33.740074Z",
"date": "2020-07-22",
"exact_date_unknown": false,
"city": "Portland",
"longitude": -122.67621,
"latitude": 45.52345,
"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"55u5x\">A member of a press collective known as the 45th Absurdist Brigade was shoved by a federal officer covering protests in downtown Portland, Oregon, on July 22, 2020.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"x2cgk\">Protests had been held in Portland on almost a nightly basis since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25. The Portland protests had <a href=\"https://apnews.com/a2c8f23381dcc7e6902452b55c3048ce\">grown more intense</a> as the presence of federal law enforcement increased in early July. A temporary restraining order on July 2 that barred the Portland police from harming or impeding journalists wasn’t <a href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-ordered-not-to-assault-arrest-journalists-in-portland/\">expanded to include federal agents</a> until July 23. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\">documenting assaults, arrests and other incidents</a> involving journalists covering BLM protests across the country.</p><p data-block-key=\"wnigz\">On the night of July 21, the “Wall of Moms” and thousands of other demonstrators converged on the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. courthouse downtown for a number of confrontations with the federal agents that continued past midnight, according to the local <a href=\"https://www.kptv.com/news/portland-protests-day-55-demonstrators-gather-to-chant-feds-go-home-crowds-dispersed-with-tear/article_abe8fd16-cbd6-11ea-bbf4-6b1f182fe188.html\">KPTV</a> news station.</p><p data-block-key=\"gpszd\">The journalist, who asked not to be named, was filming on the sidewalk across from the courthouse. A <a href=\"https://twitter.com/45thabsurdist/status/1285861571546066944?s=20\">video</a> the journalist posted to the collective’s Twitter at 1:57 a.m. shows officers advancing on a line of protesters with pepper balls and batons.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">They come out of the courthouse hitting people with sticks <a href=\"https://t.co/ikueMx3gy9\">pic.twitter.com/ikueMx3gy9</a></p>— 45th parallel absurdist brigade (@45thabsurdist) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/45thabsurdist/status/1285861571546066944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2020</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"78s94\">The journalist told the Tracker that while filming the scene with a phone, they witnessed a few people get shoved by police officers. The journalist attempted to stand back from the crowd by staying on the sidewalk, not huddled with other protesters or members of the press. An officer ran by and physically pushed several people back, including the journalist, who added that they may have been shoved with a baton.</p><p data-block-key=\"k1tow\">“I was standing there filming and I got shoved,” the journalist said. “They just came out and shoved like four people in a row. And I was one of them.”</p><p data-block-key=\"x6eqm\">The journalist said they were clearly marked as “press” by large letters on their helmet, a sticker on their back and front, and press identification. However, they weren’t sure if they were targeted as press because officers were pushing a lot of people back.</p><p data-block-key=\"er31r\">The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which has coordinated the federal presence in Portland, didn’t respond to a request for comment about the incidents.</p></div>",
"introduction": "",
"teaser": "",
"teaser_image": null,
"primary_video": null,
"image_caption": "",
"arresting_authority": null,
"arrest_status": null,
"release_date": null,
"detention_date": null,
"unnecessary_use_of_force": false,
"case_number": null,
"case_type": null,
"status_of_seized_equipment": null,
"is_search_warrant_obtained": false,
"actor": null,
"border_point": null,
"target_us_citizenship_status": null,
"denial_of_entry": false,
"stopped_previously": false,
"did_authorities_ask_for_device_access": null,
"did_authorities_ask_about_work": null,
"assailant": "law enforcement",
"was_journalist_targeted": "unknown",
"charged_under_espionage_act": false,
"subpoena_type": null,
"name_of_business": null,
"third_party_business": null,
"legal_order_venue": null,
"status_of_prior_restraint": null,
"mistakenly_released_materials": false,
"links": [],
"equipment_seized": [],
"equipment_broken": [],
"state": {
"name": "Oregon",
"abbreviation": "OR"
},
"updates": [],
"case_statuses": [],
"workers_whose_communications_were_obtained": [],
"target_nationality": [],
"targeted_institutions": [],
"tags": [
"Black Lives Matter",
"protest"
],
"politicians_or_public_figures_involved": [],
"authors": [],
"categories": [
"Assault"
],
"targeted_journalists": [
"Anonymous 45th Absurdist (45th Absurdist Press Collective)"
],
"subpoena_statuses": [],
"type_of_denial": []
},
{
"title": "Suit alleges federal officers targeted photographer at Portland protest, caused burns",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/suit-alleges-federal-officers-targeted-photographer-at-portland-protest-caused-burns/",
"first_published_at": "2022-05-09T19:31:24.124785Z",
"last_published_at": "2024-06-13T17:13:19.161469Z",
"latest_revision_created_at": "2024-06-13T17:13:19.047880Z",
"date": "2020-07-22",
"exact_date_unknown": false,
"city": "Portland",
"longitude": -122.67621,
"latitude": 45.52345,
"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"0gf9p\">Documentary photographer Rian Dundon was on assignment for the Economic Hardship Reporting Project on July 22, 2020, when he was repeatedly thrown to the ground and pinned down by a federal officer while covering protests in downtown Portland, Oregon, according to a lawsuit filed by the photographer in 2022.</p><p data-block-key=\"e3b9o\">Protests had been held in Portland on almost a nightly basis since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May. The Portland protests had <a href=\"https://apnews.com/a2c8f23381dcc7e6902452b55c3048ce\">grown more intense</a> as the presence of federal law enforcement increased in early July. A temporary restraining order on July 2 that barred the Portland police from harming or impeding journalists wasn’t <a href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-ordered-not-to-assault-arrest-journalists-in-portland/\">expanded to include federal agents</a> until July 23. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\">documented assaults, arrests and other incidents</a> involving journalists covering BLM protests across the country.</p><p data-block-key=\"cpgrv\">Dundon <a href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21717893-photogsuitagainstfeds\">filed a lawsuit</a> against the regional director of the Department of Homeland Security, which coordinated the federal presence in Portland, and more than 100 federal officers in April 2022. Dundon declined to comment on advice from counsel.</p><p data-block-key=\"5lv9p\">According to the suit, Dundon was photographing a fire started outside the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse in downtown Portland alongside other journalists in a group away from protesters, and was wearing a press badge.</p><p data-block-key=\"buuud\">“Federal officers dressed in military fatigues and wearing gas masks approached Plaintiff [Dundon] and the other journalists from behind,” the lawsuit states. “Plaintiff turned to run, but federal officers grabbed him and threw him to the ground.”</p><p data-block-key=\"ero44\">Dundon landed on a live, unexploded gas canister which then exploded.</p><p data-block-key=\"54bvg\">“Plaintiff stood and again tried to flee, but federal officers again threw him to the ground. Federal officers then pinned Plaintiff on the ground,” the lawsuit says. In <a href=\"https://twitter.com/PDocumentarians/status/1285851608366985216\">footage</a> of the incident, Dundon can be seen pinned under an officer as a cloud of gas engulfs them.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Federal officers stormed towards the crowd from the North entrance arresting many along the way. There was a brief exchange of tear gas cannisters flying in different directions. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/PortlandProtest?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PortlandProtest</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/Portland?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Portland</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BlackLivesMatter</a> <a href=\"https://t.co/ggIS9vhLv9\">pic.twitter.com/ggIS9vhLv9</a></p>— Justin Yau (@PDocumentarians) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/PDocumentarians/status/1285851608366985216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2020</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"0gf9p\">“One of the Marshals rips the press ID from around my neck,” Dundon <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2021/01/29/portland-protests/\">wrote</a> in a description of the incident for The Washington Post. “Another pinned me under the gas with his nightstick for 10 excruciating seconds before allowing me to leave the area.<br/><br/>“I walked home with third-degree burns that night, bedraggled but buzzing on residual adrenaline,” Dundon wrote.</p><p data-block-key=\"bf1kf\">The lawsuit alleges that the officers violated Dundon’s First and Fourth Amendment rights and restricted his ability to cover the protests. Neither Dundon’s attorneys nor DHS responded to requests for additional information.</p><p data-block-key=\"68qg9\">“Targeting journalists was not a quirk of the federal enforcement efforts, it was one of its objectives,” the suit alleges. “DOJ and DHS agents could have completed the objectives of their response without causing harm to Plaintiff.”</p><p data-block-key=\"fl8tf\">The Tracker documented <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/?search=&date_upper=2020-07-22&date_lower=2020-07-22&city=Portland&state=&targeted_journalists=&targeted_institutions=&tags=&case_number=&case_statuses=&case_type=&release_date_upper=&release_date_lower=&arrest_status=&status_of_charges=&charges=&detention_date_upper=&detention_date_lower=&border_point=&target_nationality=&target_us_citizenship_status=&subpoena_type=&subpoena_statuses=&detention_status=&third_party_in_possession_of_communications=&third_party_business=&legal_order_type=&workers_whose_communications_were_obtained=&actor=&status_of_seized_equipment=&equipment_seized=&assailant=&politicians_or_public_figures_involved=&status_of_prior_restraint=&equipment_broken=\">seven other journalists</a> assaulted while covering the Portland protests that day.</p><p data-block-key=\"folih\">Dundon is seeking noneconomic, economic and punitive damages in the lawsuit.</p></div>",
"introduction": "",
"teaser": "",
"teaser_image": "https://media.pressfreedomtracker.us/media/images/Dundon_Portland_protest.2e16d0ba.fill-1330x880.jpg",
"primary_video": null,
"image_caption": "<p data-block-key=\"5bman\">This screenshot, cited in Rian Dundon’s lawsuit, shows the photographer after he was thrown to the ground amid protests in Portland, Oregon, in July 2020. The 2022 suit alleges that federal officers deliberately targeted him.</p>",
"arresting_authority": null,
"arrest_status": null,
"release_date": null,
"detention_date": null,
"unnecessary_use_of_force": false,
"case_number": "3:22-cv-00594",
"case_type": "CIVIL",
"status_of_seized_equipment": null,
"is_search_warrant_obtained": false,
"actor": "law enforcement",
"border_point": null,
"target_us_citizenship_status": null,
"denial_of_entry": false,
"stopped_previously": false,
"did_authorities_ask_for_device_access": null,
"did_authorities_ask_about_work": null,
"assailant": "law enforcement",
"was_journalist_targeted": "yes",
"charged_under_espionage_act": false,
"subpoena_type": null,
"name_of_business": null,
"third_party_business": null,
"legal_order_venue": null,
"status_of_prior_restraint": null,
"mistakenly_released_materials": false,
"links": [],
"equipment_seized": [],
"equipment_broken": [
{
"quantity": 1,
"equipment": "press identification"
}
],
"state": {
"name": "Oregon",
"abbreviation": "OR"
},
"updates": [],
"case_statuses": [
"ongoing"
],
"workers_whose_communications_were_obtained": [],
"target_nationality": [],
"targeted_institutions": [],
"tags": [
"Black Lives Matter",
"protest"
],
"politicians_or_public_figures_involved": [],
"authors": [],
"categories": [
"Assault",
"Equipment Damage"
],
"targeted_journalists": [
"Rian Dundon (Economic Hardship Reporting Project)"
],
"subpoena_statuses": [],
"type_of_denial": []
},
{
"title": "Journalist says tear gas canisters thrown toward her during Portland protest",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/independent-journalists-shoved-hit-with-projectiles-during-a-portland-protest/",
"first_published_at": "2021-02-11T20:40:04.989379Z",
"last_published_at": "2024-06-13T17:12:13.255691Z",
"latest_revision_created_at": "2024-06-13T17:12:13.180827Z",
"date": "2020-07-22",
"exact_date_unknown": false,
"city": "Portland",
"longitude": -122.67621,
"latitude": 45.52345,
"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"m5de5\">Independent journalist Laura Jedeed said she was covering protests in downtown Portland, Oregon, when federal agents threw tear gas canisters toward her at least twice in the early hours of July 22, 2020.</p><p data-block-key=\"nzj0e\">Protests had been held in Portland on almost a nightly basis since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25. The Portland protests had <a href=\"https://apnews.com/a2c8f23381dcc7e6902452b55c3048ce\">grown more intense</a> as the presence of federal law enforcement increased in early July. A temporary restraining order on July 2 that barred the Portland police from harming or impeding journalists wasn’t <a href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-ordered-not-to-assault-arrest-journalists-in-portland/\">expanded to include federal agents</a> until July 23. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\">documenting assaults, arrests and other incidents</a> involving journalists covering BLM protests across the country.</p><p data-block-key=\"2aevf\">On the night of July 21, the “Wall of Moms” and thousands of other demonstrators converged on the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. courthouse downton for a number of confrontations with the federal agents that continued past midnight, according to the local <a href=\"https://www.kptv.com/news/portland-protests-day-55-demonstrators-gather-to-chant-feds-go-home-crowds-dispersed-with-tear/article_abe8fd16-cbd6-11ea-bbf4-6b1f182fe188.html\">KPTV</a> news station.</p><p data-block-key=\"qq767\">Jedeed, a contributor to Portland Monthly and Willamette Weekly, live-tweeted protest scenes from outside the courthouse, where federal law enforcement officers were stationed. Using the Twitter handle @defendpdx, Jedeed reported throughout the night that federal agents repeatedly fired tear gas canisters at protesters, while demonstrators started fires and threw fireworks and tear gas canisters back toward the courthouse.</p><p data-block-key=\"jubhp\">In a tweet that is no longer available online, Jedeed said “At least twice, the feds launched a tear gas cannister directly at me. I was not hurt, but others aren't so lucky.”</p><p data-block-key=\"0g93b\">Jedeed confirmed the events to the Tracker.</p><p data-block-key=\"yma8c\">The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which has coordinated the federal presence in Portland, didn’t respond to a request for comment about the incidents.</p></div>",
"introduction": "",
"teaser": "",
"teaser_image": null,
"primary_video": null,
"image_caption": "",
"arresting_authority": null,
"arrest_status": null,
"release_date": null,
"detention_date": null,
"unnecessary_use_of_force": false,
"case_number": null,
"case_type": null,
"status_of_seized_equipment": null,
"is_search_warrant_obtained": false,
"actor": null,
"border_point": null,
"target_us_citizenship_status": null,
"denial_of_entry": false,
"stopped_previously": false,
"did_authorities_ask_for_device_access": null,
"did_authorities_ask_about_work": null,
"assailant": "law enforcement",
"was_journalist_targeted": "unknown",
"charged_under_espionage_act": false,
"subpoena_type": null,
"name_of_business": null,
"third_party_business": null,
"legal_order_venue": null,
"status_of_prior_restraint": null,
"mistakenly_released_materials": false,
"links": [],
"equipment_seized": [],
"equipment_broken": [],
"state": {
"name": "Oregon",
"abbreviation": "OR"
},
"updates": [],
"case_statuses": [],
"workers_whose_communications_were_obtained": [],
"target_nationality": [],
"targeted_institutions": [],
"tags": [
"Black Lives Matter",
"chemical irritant",
"protest",
"shot / shot at"
],
"politicians_or_public_figures_involved": [],
"authors": [],
"categories": [
"Assault"
],
"targeted_journalists": [
"Laura Jedeed (Freelance)"
],
"subpoena_statuses": [],
"type_of_denial": []
},
{
"title": "Photojournalist struck with with projectiles, tear gassed by federal agents while covering a Portland protest",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/photojournalist-struck-with-with-projectiles-tear-gassed-by-federal-agents-while-covering-a-portland-protest/",
"first_published_at": "2021-02-09T20:42:10.821564Z",
"last_published_at": "2024-06-13T17:11:25.929358Z",
"latest_revision_created_at": "2024-06-13T17:11:25.827168Z",
"date": "2020-07-22",
"exact_date_unknown": false,
"city": "Portland",
"longitude": -122.67621,
"latitude": 45.52345,
"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"z8w5v\">Photojournalist Mathieu Lewis-Rolland was hit with crowd-control munitions and tear gas fired by federal agents while covering protests in Portland, Oregon, on July 22, 2020, causing damage to his camera.</p><p data-block-key=\"b77sb\">Lewis-Rolland, an independent photographer whose work has been published by the Portland Mercury, The New York Times and Reuters, was covering one of the protests that had been held in Portland almost nightly since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is<a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\"> documenting assaults, arrests and other incidents</a> involving journalists covering Black Lives Matter protests across the country.</p><p data-block-key=\"epoe7\">The Portland protests had<a href=\"https://apnews.com/a2c8f23381dcc7e6902452b55c3048ce\"> grown more intense</a> as the presence of federal law enforcement increased in early July. A temporary restraining order on July 2 that barred the Portland police from harming or impeding journalists wasn’t<a href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-ordered-not-to-assault-arrest-journalists-in-portland/\"> expanded to include federal agents</a> until July 23. Lewis-Rolland is a <a href=\"https://www.docketbird.com/court-documents/Index-Newspapers-LLC-et-al-v-City-of-Portland-et-al/Exhibit-1/ord-3:2020-cv-01035-00155-001\">plaintiff</a> in the class-action lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon, that led to the ban.</p><p data-block-key=\"6a761\">Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, who had been criticized for his handling of law enforcement during the protests, attended the demonstrations the night of July 22. Protesters confronted the mayor for tactics the city police used to crack down on demonstrators, according to local news outlet <a href=\"https://katu.com/news/local/portland-mayor-ted-wheeler-experiences-federal-officers-tear-gas-at-protest\">KATU</a>, while the mayor spoke out against the presence of federal law enforcement agencies in Portland.</p><p data-block-key=\"xs99j\">Lewis-Rolland was standing about six feet from the mayor outside the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse, a focal point of the protests, when he was hit with munitions, according to a <a href=\"https://www.docketbird.com/court-documents/Index-Newspapers-LLC-et-al-v-City-of-Portland-et-al/Exhibit-1/ord-3:2020-cv-01035-00155-001\">statement</a> he provided for the ACLU case.</p><p data-block-key=\"vgg47\">In a <a href=\"https://twitter.com/MathieuLRolland/status/1286281079708475392?s=20\">video</a> Lewis-Rolland posted on Twitter, a crowd is seen up against the metal fence that had been set up around the courthouse. A round of shots can be heard, followed by Lewis-Rolland exclaiming, “I just got shot! I just got shot!” As he moves away from the fence, a white cloud of tear gas envelopes the crowd, including the mayor, who can be seen facing the fence and wearing a blue shirt and goggles.</p><p data-block-key=\"uwqlv\">“So if life could't get any stranger for me, last night I was shot with less lethal's by feds and then tear gassed all while standing next to @tedwheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon,” Lewis-Rolland wrote in the post.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So if life could't get any stranger for me, last night I was shot with less lethal's by feds and then tear gassed all while standing next to <a href=\"https://twitter.com/tedwheeler?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@tedwheeler</a>, the mayor of Portland, Oregon. 2020 won't quit. <a href=\"https://t.co/bclUiUBEFT\">pic.twitter.com/bclUiUBEFT</a></p>— Mathieu Lewis-Rolland (@MathieuLRolland) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/MathieuLRolland/status/1286281079708475392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 23, 2020</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"3e6pu\">Wheeler was likely hit with tear gas at around 11:15 pm., according to <a href=\"https://katu.com/news/local/portland-mayor-ted-wheeler-experiences-federal-officers-tear-gas-at-protest\">KATU</a>.</p><p data-block-key=\"e9dq6\">In the court statement, Lewis-Rolland said the munitions first hit the metal fencing, and the shrapnel damaged his camera and backpack. He didn’t respond to a request for comment about the damage to his equipment.</p><p data-block-key=\"4fdob\">In the statement, Lewis-Rolland said that beginning on July 22, he started wearing a reflective yellow vest with a transparent pocket, where he displayed a press pass issued by the Portland Mercury. He also had “press” marked on his white bicycle helmet and on his backpack.</p><p data-block-key=\"3kzcf\">The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which has coordinated the federal presence in Portland, didn’t respond to a request for comment about the incidents.</p></div>",
"introduction": "",
"teaser": "",
"teaser_image": null,
"primary_video": null,
"image_caption": "",
"arresting_authority": null,
"arrest_status": null,
"release_date": null,
"detention_date": null,
"unnecessary_use_of_force": false,
"case_number": null,
"case_type": null,
"status_of_seized_equipment": null,
"is_search_warrant_obtained": false,
"actor": "law enforcement",
"border_point": null,
"target_us_citizenship_status": null,
"denial_of_entry": false,
"stopped_previously": false,
"did_authorities_ask_for_device_access": null,
"did_authorities_ask_about_work": null,
"assailant": "law enforcement",
"was_journalist_targeted": "unknown",
"charged_under_espionage_act": false,
"subpoena_type": null,
"name_of_business": null,
"third_party_business": null,
"legal_order_venue": null,
"status_of_prior_restraint": null,
"mistakenly_released_materials": false,
"links": [],
"equipment_seized": [],
"equipment_broken": [
{
"quantity": 1,
"equipment": "camera"
},
{
"quantity": 1,
"equipment": "equipment bag"
}
],
"state": {
"name": "Oregon",
"abbreviation": "OR"
},
"updates": [],
"case_statuses": [],
"workers_whose_communications_were_obtained": [],
"target_nationality": [],
"targeted_institutions": [],
"tags": [
"Black Lives Matter",
"chemical irritant",
"protest",
"shot / shot at"
],
"politicians_or_public_figures_involved": [],
"authors": [],
"categories": [
"Assault",
"Equipment Damage"
],
"targeted_journalists": [
"Mathieu Lewis-Rolland (Freelance)"
],
"subpoena_statuses": [],
"type_of_denial": []
},
{
"title": "Photojournalist forced to stop reporting after being hit with projectile during Portland protest",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/two-journalists-say-federal-agents-targeted-them-with-projectiles-as-they-covered-protests-in-portland/",
"first_published_at": "2021-02-05T18:19:34.469204Z",
"last_published_at": "2024-06-13T17:11:07.579548Z",
"latest_revision_created_at": "2024-06-13T17:11:07.482185Z",
"date": "2020-07-22",
"exact_date_unknown": false,
"city": "Portland",
"longitude": -122.67621,
"latitude": 45.52345,
"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"u8sw7\">Photojournalist John Rudoff was struck in the leg with a projectile fired by federal agents in Portland, Oregon, early on the morning of July 22, 2020, causing injuries that forced him to temporarily stop reporting on the demonstrations.</p><p data-block-key=\"1h3kt\">Protests had been held in Portland on almost a nightly basis since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\">documenting assaults, arrests and other incidents</a> involving journalists covering BLM protests across the country.</p><p data-block-key=\"jzpk1\">The Portland protests had <a href=\"https://apnews.com/a2c8f23381dcc7e6902452b55c3048ce\">grown more intense</a> as the presence of federal law enforcement increased in early July. A temporary restraining order on July 2 that barred the Portland police from harming or impeding journalists wasn’t <a href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-ordered-not-to-assault-arrest-journalists-in-portland/\">expanded to include federal agents</a> until July 23. Rudoff is a <a href=\"https://aclu-or.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/declaration_of_john_rudoff.pdf\">plaintiff</a> in the class-action lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon, that led to the ban.</p><p data-block-key=\"vse3e\">On the night of July 21, the “Wall of Moms” and thousands of other demonstrators converged on the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse downtown, where frequent confrontations between protesters and federal agents continued into the early hours of the next morning, according to the local <a href=\"https://www.kptv.com/news/portland-protests-day-55-demonstrators-gather-to-chant-feds-go-home-crowds-dispersed-with-tear/article_abe8fd16-cbd6-11ea-bbf4-6b1f182fe188.html\">KPTV</a> news station.</p><p data-block-key=\"ujra2\">Around 12:40 a.m. on the 22nd, Rudoff was documenting a protest at the intersection of Southwest Fourth Avenue and Southwest Salmon Street, a block from the courthouse, according to a <a href=\"https://aclu-or.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/declaration_of_john_rudoff.pdf\">declaration</a> he provided in the ACLU case. While Rudoff was photographing a line of federal officers, he felt “a tremendous strike and extreme pain” on his leg, according to the document.</p><p data-block-key=\"2nrbr\">Rudoff, whose work has been published by Rolling Stone, the Nation and The New York Times, told the Tracker he was shot with a universal projectile ammunition, which is used in a riot gun.</p><p data-block-key=\"22etu\">He “hobbled” across the street, where friends assisted him with first aid, according to the declaration. Rudoff wasn’t able to continue his assignment, he wrote, since he was “in too much pain,” and the pain continued throughout the night after he went home. Photographs of the injury provided in the declaration, taken hours after the incident, show a raw, red abrasion.</p><p data-block-key=\"gc30c\">Rudoff told the Tracker that he wasn’t near any protesters at the time he was struck, and believes that he was targeted. He was wearing a helmet and vest emblazoned with the word “press” in large letters, as well as a laminated press credential issued by the National Press Photographers Association, he wrote in the declaration.</p><p data-block-key=\"hxzys\">The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which has coordinated the federal presence in Portland, didn’t respond to a request for comment about the incidents.</p></div>",
"introduction": "",
"teaser": "",
"teaser_image": null,
"primary_video": null,
"image_caption": "",
"arresting_authority": null,
"arrest_status": null,
"release_date": null,
"detention_date": null,
"unnecessary_use_of_force": false,
"case_number": null,
"case_type": null,
"status_of_seized_equipment": null,
"is_search_warrant_obtained": false,
"actor": null,
"border_point": null,
"target_us_citizenship_status": null,
"denial_of_entry": false,
"stopped_previously": false,
"did_authorities_ask_for_device_access": null,
"did_authorities_ask_about_work": null,
"assailant": "law enforcement",
"was_journalist_targeted": "yes",
"charged_under_espionage_act": false,
"subpoena_type": null,
"name_of_business": null,
"third_party_business": null,
"legal_order_venue": null,
"status_of_prior_restraint": null,
"mistakenly_released_materials": false,
"links": [],
"equipment_seized": [],
"equipment_broken": [],
"state": {
"name": "Oregon",
"abbreviation": "OR"
},
"updates": [],
"case_statuses": [],
"workers_whose_communications_were_obtained": [],
"target_nationality": [],
"targeted_institutions": [],
"tags": [
"Black Lives Matter",
"protest",
"shot / shot at"
],
"politicians_or_public_figures_involved": [],
"authors": [],
"categories": [
"Assault"
],
"targeted_journalists": [
"John Rudoff (Independent)"
],
"subpoena_statuses": [],
"type_of_denial": []
},
{
"title": "Photojournalist says she was shoved by federal officers during Portland protests, her camera damaged",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/photojournalist-says-she-was-shoved-federal-officers-during-portland-protests-her-camera-damaged/",
"first_published_at": "2021-01-27T21:17:51.345673Z",
"last_published_at": "2024-06-13T17:10:49.215922Z",
"latest_revision_created_at": "2024-06-13T17:10:49.123824Z",
"date": "2020-07-22",
"exact_date_unknown": false,
"city": "Portland",
"longitude": -122.67621,
"latitude": 45.52345,
"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"ev7yg\">Rach Wilde, an independent photojournalist working for Black Zebra Productions, says she was shoved to the ground by a federal officer while covering protests against police violence in Portland, Oregon, on July 22, 2020.</p><p data-block-key=\"4y6a0\">Team members from Black Zebra Productions, a community-based storytelling production crew, were documenting protests that have been ongoing for months in downtown Portland and across the U.S. in support of the Black Lives Matter movement following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25. In mid-July, federal agents were dispatched to the city, <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/us/portland-protests.html\">increasing tensions</a> and <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/us/portland-protests.html\">drawing backlash</a>.</p><p data-block-key=\"nb8zw\">On the night of July 21, protesters had gathered outside the Multnomah County Justice Center. By 10:30 p.m., the situation had escalated, according to a <a href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/07/23/portland-riots-read-out-july-23\">report</a> from the Department of Homeland Security, the agency coordinating the federal presence in Portland. Around 12:30 a.m., Wilde told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker that she was looking toward the side of the building, where officers were shooting impact munitions from a window.</p><p data-block-key=\"38hhi\">“Out of nowhere, I heard a slight commotion. They [federal agents] just popped up and were right next to me,” she said. “Right as I turned around, one of the federal officers was beelining straight toward me.”</p><p data-block-key=\"v557q\">Wilde said the officer shoved her “as hard as he could” and kept running past her. In a<a href=\"https://fb.watch/2AUvGE3pte/\"> livestream</a> shared on Facebook by Black Zebra, federal officers can be seen running toward a crowd of people at 1:24:03.</p><p data-block-key=\"jwuy8\">Wilde, who was dressed in all black with a helmet and gas mask on, said she was pushed straight into a tree. “I hit my knee and my shoulder really bad,” she told the Tracker. She said her shoulder still hurts if she does certain movements and her knee will occasionally act up. The body of her camera was also damaged, as it hit the ground first, according to Wilde.</p><p data-block-key=\"stmpz\">“It was clearly a pocket of press,” she said. “All of us had cameras. Majority had press presses.”</p><p data-block-key=\"esq4q\">Wilde said she was wearing a press pass issued by Black Zebra Productions around her neck. After she left the scene, she regrouped with her team and they continued documenting until 2 a.m.</p><p data-block-key=\"3u773\">DHS did not respond to a request for comment on the incident.</p><p data-block-key=\"c1bwq\">The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\">documenting assaults, arrests and other incidents</a> involving journalists covering protests across the country.</p></div>",
"introduction": "",
"teaser": "",
"teaser_image": null,
"primary_video": null,
"image_caption": "",
"arresting_authority": null,
"arrest_status": null,
"release_date": null,
"detention_date": null,
"unnecessary_use_of_force": false,
"case_number": null,
"case_type": null,
"status_of_seized_equipment": null,
"is_search_warrant_obtained": false,
"actor": "law enforcement",
"border_point": null,
"target_us_citizenship_status": null,
"denial_of_entry": false,
"stopped_previously": false,
"did_authorities_ask_for_device_access": null,
"did_authorities_ask_about_work": null,
"assailant": "law enforcement",
"was_journalist_targeted": "yes",
"charged_under_espionage_act": false,
"subpoena_type": null,
"name_of_business": null,
"third_party_business": null,
"legal_order_venue": null,
"status_of_prior_restraint": null,
"mistakenly_released_materials": false,
"links": [],
"equipment_seized": [],
"equipment_broken": [
{
"quantity": 1,
"equipment": "camera"
}
],
"state": {
"name": "Oregon",
"abbreviation": "OR"
},
"updates": [],
"case_statuses": [],
"workers_whose_communications_were_obtained": [],
"target_nationality": [],
"targeted_institutions": [],
"tags": [
"Black Lives Matter",
"protest"
],
"politicians_or_public_figures_involved": [],
"authors": [],
"categories": [
"Assault",
"Equipment Damage"
],
"targeted_journalists": [
"Rach Wilde (Freelance)"
],
"subpoena_statuses": [],
"type_of_denial": []
},
{
"title": "Videographer struck numerous times by federal officers in Portland",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/videographer-struck-numerous-times-federal-officers-portland/",
"first_published_at": "2021-01-22T13:13:20.009000Z",
"last_published_at": "2024-06-13T17:10:28.555522Z",
"latest_revision_created_at": "2024-06-13T17:10:28.471761Z",
"date": "2020-07-22",
"exact_date_unknown": false,
"city": "Portland",
"longitude": -122.67621,
"latitude": 45.52345,
"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"i7pam\">Federal officers struck Black Zebra videographer Johnny Lynch multiple times and dragged him to the ground as Lynch covered protests against police violence in Portland, Oregon, on July 22, 2020.</p><p data-block-key=\"5ii3j\"><a href=\"https://facebook.com/blackzebraproductions/\">Black Zebra Productions</a>, based in Sacramento, California, is a video production company that has drawn thousands of views for its livestreams at Black Lives Matter protests across Sacramento. Company videographer Lynch was in Portland covering one of the many protests that continued for months in that city following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25.</p><p data-block-key=\"1shh5\">On the night of July 21, protesters gathered outside of the Multnomah County Justice Center in downtown Portland. A<a href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/07/23/portland-riots-read-out-july-23\"> report</a> issued by the Department of Homeland Security said that about 2,000 people had gathered by 10:30 p.m., when “rioters started to launch mortar-style fireworks over the fence at the federal courthouse and officers.” The DHS report also said protesters attacked a fence put up around the courthouse. In response, federal officers deployed tear gas, flash bang grenades and other crowd control munitions for several hours to break up the crowd, according to <a href=\"https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.kgw.com/amp/article/news/local/protesters-gather-outside-portlands-justice-center/283-70ea0bbc-3ccf-404c-ae0b-0c6088f4ff51\">news reports</a>.</p><p data-block-key=\"cvp0f\">In an interview with the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, Lynch said federal officers rushed protesters numerous times to disperse the group and deployed crowd control munitions, including tear gas and pepper balls.</p><p data-block-key=\"154wp\">"There was tear gas everywhere," Lynch told the Tracker. “I got my gas mask back on and went out to the Justice Center and that's when the rush happened."</p><p data-block-key=\"zm33i\">In a<a href=\"https://fb.watch/2AUvGE3pte/\"> live stream</a> shared on Facebook by Black Zebra Productions, federal officers can be seen running towards a crowd of people at 1:24:03 into the video. Lynch said the rush began shortly after midnight July 22. Lynch, who is wearing an orange helmet, is caught in the commotion and pushed to the ground. A few seconds later he can be seen running away from the officers and smoke that is enveloping the crowd. Another <a href=\"https://fb.watch/38ytbOBroA/\">video</a> posted by Black Zebra shows, in split screen, the attack as seen from the livestream alongside footage from Lynch’s camera. In Lynch's perspective, which is in the top frame of the video, a federal officer's baton can be seen slamming down towards the camera.</p><p data-block-key=\"b22v2\">"They said move, I turned around, and then they hit me," Lynch told the Tracker. "They hit me a couple of times [and] dragged me into a cloud of tear gas that had just started to go off." He said another officer hit him while he was being dragged on the ground.</p><p data-block-key=\"86rmy\">"This was very obviously a group of camera people," Lynch said. "That officer was standing there next to me for at least long enough to have seen my camera.”</p><p data-block-key=\"ms0pw\">Lynch said he had been wearing press passes issued by The Sacramento Bee and Black Zebra Productions. He said he lost his lens hood, sustained several bruises across his body and suffered nausea from the tear gas. After he left the scene, he said he regrouped with his team and they continued documenting till 2 a.m. on July 22.</p><p data-block-key=\"49nw0\">DHS didn’t respond to a request for comment on the incidents.</p><p data-block-key=\"zcolu\">The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\"> documenting assaults, arrests and other incidents</a> involving journalists covering protests across the country. The Tracker documented a previous incident involving Black Zebra <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/videojournalist-detained-during-sacramento-protests/\">here</a>.</p></div>",
"introduction": "",
"teaser": "",
"teaser_image": null,
"primary_video": null,
"image_caption": "",
"arresting_authority": null,
"arrest_status": null,
"release_date": null,
"detention_date": null,
"unnecessary_use_of_force": false,
"case_number": null,
"case_type": null,
"status_of_seized_equipment": null,
"is_search_warrant_obtained": false,
"actor": "law enforcement",
"border_point": null,
"target_us_citizenship_status": null,
"denial_of_entry": false,
"stopped_previously": false,
"did_authorities_ask_for_device_access": null,
"did_authorities_ask_about_work": null,
"assailant": "law enforcement",
"was_journalist_targeted": "unknown",
"charged_under_espionage_act": false,
"subpoena_type": null,
"name_of_business": null,
"third_party_business": null,
"legal_order_venue": null,
"status_of_prior_restraint": null,
"mistakenly_released_materials": false,
"links": [],
"equipment_seized": [],
"equipment_broken": [
{
"quantity": 1,
"equipment": "camera lens"
}
],
"state": {
"name": "Oregon",
"abbreviation": "OR"
},
"updates": [],
"case_statuses": [],
"workers_whose_communications_were_obtained": [],
"target_nationality": [],
"targeted_institutions": [],
"tags": [
"Black Lives Matter",
"chemical irritant",
"protest"
],
"politicians_or_public_figures_involved": [],
"authors": [],
"categories": [
"Assault",
"Equipment Damage"
],
"targeted_journalists": [
"Johnny Lynch (Black Zebra Productions)"
],
"subpoena_statuses": [],
"type_of_denial": []
},
{
"title": "Journalist says federal agents threw tear gas, smashed van windows during Portland protests",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/journalist-says-federal-agents-threw-tear-gas-smashed-van-windows-during-portland-protests/",
"first_published_at": "2021-10-06T14:34:45.630274Z",
"last_published_at": "2024-06-17T15:39:32.029935Z",
"latest_revision_created_at": "2024-06-17T15:39:31.944905Z",
"date": "2020-07-21",
"exact_date_unknown": false,
"city": "Portland",
"longitude": -122.67621,
"latitude": 45.52345,
"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"qplo9\">Journalist Fiorella Isabel Mayorca said she was caught in a cloud of tear gas and had guns pointed at her by law enforcement officers as she covered protests with her colleague in Portland, Oregon, on July 21, 2020. She also said officers smashed the windows of a van they were using.</p><p data-block-key=\"fhj9w\">Mayorca, the co-owner of <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnESeKWQPmL85jLaZU6Babg\">The Convo Couch</a>, a Los Angeles-based video news outlet, said she arrived in Portland two days earlier to cover protests that had <a href=\"https://apnews.com/a2c8f23381dcc7e6902452b55c3048ce\">grown more intense</a> as the presence of federal law enforcement increased.</p><p data-block-key=\"cyv89\">Demonstrations against police violence and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement have been held across the U.S. since late May. They were sparked by a video showing the death of George Floyd, a Black man, while in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25.</p><p data-block-key=\"4l3my\">Mayorca told the U.S Press Freedom Tracker she arrived at a demonstration at around 9:30 p.m. on July 20 outside the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse downtown, where federal law enforcement officers were stationed.</p><p data-block-key=\"jw5s1\">Mayorca and Craig Jardula, another co-owner of The Convo Couch, <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a32q_M7nLiQ\">streamed live on YouTube</a> for several hours, documenting the demonstration and interviewing protesters. They said that a little after midnight, they returned to a van parked nearby that they had been using as a media station and spot to rest and regroup. Dubbed the “Bernie Van,” it was owned by progressive activist David Crow and had been used as he independently campaigned for U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders during the recent Democratic primary. It was adorned with progressive slogans, including “Defund the Police.”</p><p data-block-key=\"hjte0\">While inside the van at approximately 12:30 a.m., they saw what they believed were federal law enforcement officers in riot gear come out of the courthouse and start to throw tear gas canisters on the ground to push protesters back, Mayorca said.</p><p data-block-key=\"ghul1\">Mayorca continued to film the scene when she said an officer saw them and alerted other agents to the van. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/Fiorella_im/status/1285545570220691456\">Video</a> shows an officer pointing a gun at the van before a group of officers approach, shine flashlights on them and hit the windows until they shatter.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Watch how the <a href=\"https://twitter.com/theconvocouch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@theconvocouch</a> team <a href=\"https://twitter.com/yopasta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@yopasta</a> & myself were inside the Berrnie Van, as feds descended upon us and began tear-gassing protestors. We couldn’t get out bc of the gas but we also couldn’t breathe. Feds then smashed the windows & pointed guns at us as the vid goes black. <a href=\"https://t.co/jw0dOAeW22\">pic.twitter.com/jw0dOAeW22</a></p>— Fiorella Isabel🪓 ☭ ⚒🔥🕊 (@Fiorella_im) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/Fiorella_im/status/1285545570220691456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2020</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"xl7zw\">Mayorca said the officers told them to “Get the fuck out."</p><p data-block-key=\"pzlbw\">“They pointed guns at us,” she said. “It made me feel like they were the enemy, when they’re supposed to be putting in order, so to speak.”</p><p data-block-key=\"pp7la\">The Tracker documented Jardula’s assault <a href=\"/all-incidents/journalists-allege-federal-agents-threw-tear-gas-smashed-van-windows-during-portland-protests/\">here</a>.</p><p data-block-key=\"zo0cb\">While a number of federal agencies <a href=\"https://www.vox.com/2020/7/20/21328387/portland-protests-unmarked-arrest-trump-wold\">reportedly</a> had officers in Portland in July, it wasn’t clear to Mayorca which agency the officers they encountered were from. The Department of Homeland Security, which coordinated the federal presence in Portland, did not respond to requests for comment.</p><p data-block-key=\"2n70u\">After the van’s windows were smashed, Mayorca said they left the vehicle and shouted to the officers that they were members of the press.</p><p data-block-key=\"eiekm\">“They did let us walk out, and we were able to get safely out of there,” Mayorca said.</p><p data-block-key=\"txopw\">The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker documents journalists assaulted, arrested, struck by crowd-control ammunition or tear gas or who had their equipment damaged in the course of reporting. Find all incidents related to Black Lives Matter and anti-police brutality protests <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\">here</a>.</p></div>",
"introduction": "",
"teaser": "",
"teaser_image": null,
"primary_video": null,
"image_caption": "",
"arresting_authority": null,
"arrest_status": null,
"release_date": null,
"detention_date": null,
"unnecessary_use_of_force": false,
"case_number": null,
"case_type": null,
"status_of_seized_equipment": null,
"is_search_warrant_obtained": false,
"actor": null,
"border_point": null,
"target_us_citizenship_status": null,
"denial_of_entry": false,
"stopped_previously": false,
"did_authorities_ask_for_device_access": null,
"did_authorities_ask_about_work": null,
"assailant": "law enforcement",
"was_journalist_targeted": "no",
"charged_under_espionage_act": false,
"subpoena_type": null,
"name_of_business": null,
"third_party_business": null,
"legal_order_venue": null,
"status_of_prior_restraint": null,
"mistakenly_released_materials": false,
"links": [],
"equipment_seized": [],
"equipment_broken": [],
"state": {
"name": "Oregon",
"abbreviation": "OR"
},
"updates": [],
"case_statuses": [],
"workers_whose_communications_were_obtained": [],
"target_nationality": [],
"targeted_institutions": [],
"tags": [
"Black Lives Matter",
"chemical irritant",
"protest"
],
"politicians_or_public_figures_involved": [],
"authors": [],
"categories": [
"Assault"
],
"targeted_journalists": [
"Fiorella Isabel Mayorca (The Convo Couch)"
],
"subpoena_statuses": [],
"type_of_denial": []
},
{
"title": "Journalist livestreaming Portland protest hit with multiple projectiles",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/journalist-livestreaming-portland-protest-hit-with-multiple-projectiles/",
"first_published_at": "2021-10-04T17:24:14.372748Z",
"last_published_at": "2024-06-13T17:15:26.214994Z",
"latest_revision_created_at": "2024-06-13T17:15:26.138370Z",
"date": "2020-07-21",
"exact_date_unknown": false,
"city": "Portland",
"longitude": -122.67621,
"latitude": 45.52345,
"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"iyi0i\">Independent journalist Eric Greatwood was among <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/physical-attack/?assailant=LAW_ENFORCEMENT&categories=10&city=Portland&date_lower=2020-07-21&date_upper=2020-07-21&state=41&was_journalist_targeted=JUST_TRUE\">multiple journalists</a> who said federal law enforcement officers targeted them with crowd-control weapons on July 21, 2020, while he was covering protests in Portland, Oregon.</p><p data-block-key=\"m2nxk\">The journalists were covering one of the many protests that broke out in response to police violence and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement following the May 25 death of George Floyd. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\">documenting assaults, arrests and other incidents</a> involving journalists covering protests across the country.</p><p data-block-key=\"daba6\">The Portland protests, held nightly since late May, had <a href=\"https://apnews.com/a2c8f23381dcc7e6902452b55c3048ce\">grown more intense</a> as the presence of federal law enforcement increased in early July. A temporary restraining order on July 2 that barred the Portland police from harming or impeding journalists wasn’t <a href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-ordered-not-to-assault-arrest-journalists-in-portland/\">expanded to include federal agents</a> until July 23.</p><p data-block-key=\"r3mhp\">Demonstrations that began the night of July 20 stretched into the early hours of the next day, according to the <a href=\"https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/07/portland-protests-continue-for-54th-night-amid-controversy-surrounding-federal-officers-presence.html\">Oregonian</a>, as the “Wall of Moms” and other protesters confronted federal officers stationed at the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse and the Multnomah County Justice Center downtown.</p><p data-block-key=\"p64yi\">Greatwood had been livestreaming the protests with a camera attached on top of a 20-foot pole when federal agents in camouflage advanced down Southwest Main Street, shooting munitions. He was hit twice with less-lethal munitions as he walked away from a line of federal agents.</p><p data-block-key=\"cg4os\">Greatwood’s <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/EricGreatwood/videos/10224103196387178/\">livestream</a> shows munitions flying through the air, capturing the moment that he was hit the first time, around the 4:57:30 mark. “That one hurt,” he can be heard saying.</p><p data-block-key=\"9xgex\">About 20 seconds later, the footage captures the moment Greatwood was struck again, this time in the buttocks. The pain was much worse this time, Greatwood told the Tracker, and can be heard moaning in the video. He left the protest shortly after due to the pain.</p><p data-block-key=\"orzu9\">DHS, which has coordinated the federal presence in Portland, said in a <a href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/07/21/portland-riots-read-out-july-21\">statement</a> that officers used pepper balls and tear gas to respond to an “assault” against the courthouse and law enforcement officers by rioters. The agency didn’t respond to a request for comment on the incidents.</p><p data-block-key=\"dqapr\">The Portland police said in a <a href=\"https://www.portlandoregon.gov/police/news/read.cfm?id=251010\">statement</a> that its officers weren’t present and didn’t engage with protesters that evening.</p></div>",
"introduction": "",
"teaser": "",
"teaser_image": null,
"primary_video": null,
"image_caption": "",
"arresting_authority": null,
"arrest_status": null,
"release_date": null,
"detention_date": null,
"unnecessary_use_of_force": false,
"case_number": null,
"case_type": null,
"status_of_seized_equipment": null,
"is_search_warrant_obtained": false,
"actor": null,
"border_point": null,
"target_us_citizenship_status": null,
"denial_of_entry": false,
"stopped_previously": false,
"did_authorities_ask_for_device_access": null,
"did_authorities_ask_about_work": null,
"assailant": "law enforcement",
"was_journalist_targeted": "yes",
"charged_under_espionage_act": false,
"subpoena_type": null,
"name_of_business": null,
"third_party_business": null,
"legal_order_venue": null,
"status_of_prior_restraint": null,
"mistakenly_released_materials": false,
"links": [],
"equipment_seized": [],
"equipment_broken": [],
"state": {
"name": "Oregon",
"abbreviation": "OR"
},
"updates": [],
"case_statuses": [],
"workers_whose_communications_were_obtained": [],
"target_nationality": [],
"targeted_institutions": [],
"tags": [
"Black Lives Matter",
"protest",
"shot / shot at"
],
"politicians_or_public_figures_involved": [],
"authors": [],
"categories": [
"Assault"
],
"targeted_journalists": [
"Eric Greatwood (Independent)"
],
"subpoena_statuses": [],
"type_of_denial": []
},
{
"title": "Independent journalist injured by projectile while covering Portland protest",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/independent-journalist-injured-by-projectile-while-covering-portland-protest/",
"first_published_at": "2021-10-05T20:13:10.745363Z",
"last_published_at": "2024-06-13T17:16:40.366405Z",
"latest_revision_created_at": "2024-06-13T17:16:40.278169Z",
"date": "2020-07-21",
"exact_date_unknown": false,
"city": "Portland",
"longitude": -122.67621,
"latitude": 45.52345,
"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"2a8fk\">Independent journalist Garrison Davis was hit by a crowd-control munition fired by federal law enforcement officials while covering a protest outside the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, on July 21, 2020.</p><p data-block-key=\"tla08\">Davis was covering one of the many protests that broke out in response to police violence and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement following the May 25 death of George Floyd. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\">documenting assaults, arrests and other incidents</a> involving journalists covering protests across the country.</p><p data-block-key=\"bcsfv\">The Portland protests, held nightly since late May, had <a href=\"https://apnews.com/a2c8f23381dcc7e6902452b55c3048ce\">grown more intense</a> as the presence of federal law enforcement increased in early July. A temporary restraining order on July 2 that barred the Portland police from harming or impeding journalists wasn’t <a href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-ordered-not-to-assault-arrest-journalists-in-portland/\">expanded to include federal agents</a> until July 23.</p><p data-block-key=\"lrsjb\">On the night of July 21, the “Wall of Moms” and thousands of other demonstrators converged on the courthouse downton for another night of confrontations with the federal agents, according to the local <a href=\"https://www.kptv.com/news/portland-protests-day-55-demonstrators-gather-to-chant-feds-go-home-crowds-dispersed-with-tear/article_abe8fd16-cbd6-11ea-bbf4-6b1f182fe188.html\">KPTV</a> news station. When some individuals began pulling off the plywood blocking access to the courthouse shortly after 11 p.m., federal agents emerged from the building to clear the area.</p><p data-block-key=\"r4xr9\">Shortly before midnight, Davis was hit in the thigh by a projectile as federal agents were moving back into the courthouse.</p><p data-block-key=\"fdccz\">“As the Feds retreat into the courthouse they shoot tons of impact additions, like rubber bullets, towards anyone they see. I was hit pretty hard in the thigh,” he <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hungrybowtie/status/1285832629556637696\">tweeted</a>.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As the Feds retreat into the courthouse they shoot tons of impact additions, like rubber bullets, towards anyone they see. I was hit pretty hard in the thigh. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/PortlandMoms?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PortlandMoms</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/blacklivesmatter?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#blacklivesmatter</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/protest?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#protest</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/pdx?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#pdx</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/portland?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#portland</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/oregon?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#oregon</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/blm?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#blm</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/acab?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#acab</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/PortlandProtest?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PortlandProtest</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/PDXprotest?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PDXprotest</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/Feds?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Feds</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/MOMTIFA?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MOMTIFA</a> <a href=\"https://t.co/DsWHmdHV1z\">pic.twitter.com/DsWHmdHV1z</a></p>— Garrison Davis (@hungrybowtie) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hungrybowtie/status/1285832629556637696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2020</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"xo9j5\">The accompanying video, taken while Davis was standing behind a concrete pillar, shows the retreating federal agents shooting through tear gas.</p><p data-block-key=\"1imq1\">Davis posted photos of his injury, which he said was sustained through “heavy duty” pants, in a follow-up <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hungrybowtie/status/1285833430769360896\">tweet</a>.</p><p data-block-key=\"dl3th\">“I had to limp for a few days, it wasn’t pleasant,” Davis told the Tracker.</p><p data-block-key=\"b3848\">He does not believe that he was targeted. “I think I put myself in a position to get a good shot, and they were firing rubber bullets wildly in that direction and I got hit,” he said.</p><p data-block-key=\"1buag\">The Department of Homeland Security, which has coordinated the federal presence in Portland, said in a <a href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/07/22/portland-riots-read-out-july-22\">statement</a> that officers were “forced” to leave the courthouse to repel a “mob” of protesters. DHS didn’t respond to a request for comment on this incident.</p></div>",
"introduction": "",
"teaser": "",
"teaser_image": null,
"primary_video": null,
"image_caption": "",
"arresting_authority": null,
"arrest_status": null,
"release_date": null,
"detention_date": null,
"unnecessary_use_of_force": false,
"case_number": null,
"case_type": null,
"status_of_seized_equipment": null,
"is_search_warrant_obtained": false,
"actor": null,
"border_point": null,
"target_us_citizenship_status": null,
"denial_of_entry": false,
"stopped_previously": false,
"did_authorities_ask_for_device_access": null,
"did_authorities_ask_about_work": null,
"assailant": "law enforcement",
"was_journalist_targeted": "no",
"charged_under_espionage_act": false,
"subpoena_type": null,
"name_of_business": null,
"third_party_business": null,
"legal_order_venue": null,
"status_of_prior_restraint": null,
"mistakenly_released_materials": false,
"links": [],
"equipment_seized": [],
"equipment_broken": [],
"state": {
"name": "Oregon",
"abbreviation": "OR"
},
"updates": [],
"case_statuses": [],
"workers_whose_communications_were_obtained": [],
"target_nationality": [],
"targeted_institutions": [],
"tags": [
"Black Lives Matter",
"protest",
"shot / shot at"
],
"politicians_or_public_figures_involved": [],
"authors": [],
"categories": [
"Assault"
],
"targeted_journalists": [
"Garrison Davis (Independent)"
],
"subpoena_statuses": [],
"type_of_denial": []
},
{
"title": "Videographer punched by individual at Portland demonstration",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/videographer-punched-individual-portland-demonstration/",
"first_published_at": "2020-10-12T18:07:11.875682Z",
"last_published_at": "2024-06-13T17:13:37.645634Z",
"latest_revision_created_at": "2024-06-13T17:13:37.551085Z",
"date": "2020-07-21",
"exact_date_unknown": false,
"city": "Portland",
"longitude": -122.67621,
"latitude": 45.52345,
"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"1i8ws\">Independent journalist Mason Lake said an individual assaulted him while he was covering a demonstration in Portland, Oregon, on July 21, 2020.</p><p data-block-key=\"lklbk\">The Portland-based videographer was covering one of the many protests that broke out in response to police violence and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement following the May 25 death of George Floyd. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\">documenting assaults, arrests and other incidents</a> involving journalists covering protests across the country.</p><p data-block-key=\"xygt4\">The Portland protests, held nightly since late May, had <a href=\"https://apnews.com/a2c8f23381dcc7e6902452b55c3048ce\">grown more intense</a> by late July as the presence of federal law enforcement increased in recent weeks.</p><p data-block-key=\"xlvo9\">Sometime before midnight the evening of July 21, Lake was filming around the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse in downtown Portland, where protesters had been engaging in confrontations with federal law enforcement officers.</p><p data-block-key=\"i1ak1\">Then an individual at the demonstration came up to Lake and started accusing him of being a snitch and of filming protesters’ faces, Lake told the Tracker, adding that he responded by questioning why he was being singled out when there were many other cameras that were filming protesters’ faces.</p><p data-block-key=\"oz5zb\">“It escalated from there,” he said. In a video captured by Sergio Olmos, a journalist for Oregon Public Broadcasting — which Lake later <a href=\"https://twitter.com/MasonLakePhoto/status/1285905866588164097\">retweeted</a> — someone in a black hoodie can be seen punching Lake, who was wearing a gas mask and helmet, in the face several times.</p><p data-block-key=\"zkpgy\">“He took the first swing,” said Lake. “Once he hit me it got my mask out of the way, so I couldn’t see. The crowd rushed in and pulled him off me.”</p><p data-block-key=\"6ob8d\">Lake, who didn’t suffer serious injuries from the attack, told the Tracker he wasn’t sure who punched him. He said he wasn’t informing on protesters or filming their faces, and that his camera was aimed down at the time of the confrontation. Portland protesters <a href=\"https://cpj.org/2020/08/were-scared-shitless-out-here-four-reporters-on-covering-the-federal-response-to-portland-protests/\">have worried</a> that footage of them at demonstrations could lead to arrests.</p><p data-block-key=\"6kqcd\">The assault on Lake came over a week after some Instagram and Twitter accounts <a href=\"https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/assault-on-videographer-an-ugly-sign-of-discord-within-portland-protest-movement/\">accused</a> Lake of being a “snitch,” or police informant, Lake said. The claims were posted after Lake had published videos of federal law enforcement arrests of protesters on his Twitter account.</p><p data-block-key=\"oiroh\">The social media posts targeting Lake included screenshots of text messages purporting to be from Lake in which he admits to sending footage of protesters to the police. Lake, however, told the Tracker that he never sent those messages and that they were photoshopped.</p><p data-block-key=\"9b0kn\">“On Facebook, people started bombarding me and banning me in protest groups that I shared my photos in,” said Lake, adding that he started receiving death threats on social media and in texts. “I was in fear of leaving my house of people jumping me.”</p><p data-block-key=\"7odic\">The night after the initial assault, Lake was <a href=\"https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/assault-on-videographer-an-ugly-sign-of-discord-within-portland-protest-movement/\">attacked</a> again by protesters in an incident that sent him to the hospital. He wasn’t filming at the time.</p><p data-block-key=\"qd73z\">Lake has also been <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/?targeted_journalists=601\">repeatedly shot at</a> with crowd-control munitions by federal and local law enforcement officers while documenting protests in Portland. After getting <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/videographer-hit-police-projectile-during-portland-protest-may-31/\">shot</a> by a projectile that injured his arm on May 31, Lake filed a lawsuit against the city of Portland over the alleged battery by the police.</p></div>",
"introduction": "",
"teaser": "",
"teaser_image": null,
"primary_video": null,
"image_caption": "",
"arresting_authority": null,
"arrest_status": null,
"release_date": null,
"detention_date": null,
"unnecessary_use_of_force": false,
"case_number": null,
"case_type": null,
"status_of_seized_equipment": null,
"is_search_warrant_obtained": false,
"actor": null,
"border_point": null,
"target_us_citizenship_status": null,
"denial_of_entry": false,
"stopped_previously": false,
"did_authorities_ask_for_device_access": null,
"did_authorities_ask_about_work": null,
"assailant": "private individual",
"was_journalist_targeted": "yes",
"charged_under_espionage_act": false,
"subpoena_type": null,
"name_of_business": null,
"third_party_business": null,
"legal_order_venue": null,
"status_of_prior_restraint": null,
"mistakenly_released_materials": false,
"links": [],
"equipment_seized": [],
"equipment_broken": [],
"state": {
"name": "Oregon",
"abbreviation": "OR"
},
"updates": [],
"case_statuses": [],
"workers_whose_communications_were_obtained": [],
"target_nationality": [],
"targeted_institutions": [],
"tags": [
"Black Lives Matter",
"protest"
],
"politicians_or_public_figures_involved": [],
"authors": [],
"categories": [
"Assault"
],
"targeted_journalists": [
"Mason Lake (Independent)"
],
"subpoena_statuses": [],
"type_of_denial": []
},
{
"title": "Journalist targeted with crowd-control munitions at Portland protests",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/journalist-targeted-with-crowd-control-munitions-at-portland-protests/",
"first_published_at": "2021-10-04T17:30:01.083112Z",
"last_published_at": "2024-06-13T17:16:00.101883Z",
"latest_revision_created_at": "2024-06-13T17:16:00.027995Z",
"date": "2020-07-21",
"exact_date_unknown": false,
"city": "Portland",
"longitude": -122.67621,
"latitude": 45.52345,
"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"abnu5\">Mathieu Lewis-Rolland said he was shot with pepper balls and targeted with a tear gas grenade on the morning of July 21, 2020 in Oregon, Portland. Multiple other journalists also reported being <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/physical-attack/?assailant=LAW_ENFORCEMENT&categories=10&city=Portland&date_lower=2020-07-21&date_upper=2020-07-21&state=41&was_journalist_targeted=JUST_TRUE\">targeted with crowd-control munitions</a> that day.</p><p data-block-key=\"8rtj2\">The journalists were covering one of the many protests that broke out in response to police violence and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement following the May 25 death of George Floyd. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\">documenting assaults, arrests and other incidents</a> involving journalists covering protests across the country.</p><p data-block-key=\"hn1kr\">The Portland protests, held nightly since late May, had <a href=\"https://apnews.com/a2c8f23381dcc7e6902452b55c3048ce\">grown more intense</a> as the presence of federal law enforcement increased in early July. A temporary restraining order on July 2 that barred the Portland police from harming or impeding journalists wasn’t <a href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-ordered-not-to-assault-arrest-journalists-in-portland/\">expanded to include federal agents</a> until July 23.</p><p data-block-key=\"6xyea\">Demonstrations that began the night of July 20 stretched into the early hours of the next day, according to the <a href=\"https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/07/portland-protests-continue-for-54th-night-amid-controversy-surrounding-federal-officers-presence.html\">Oregonian</a>, as the “Wall of Moms” and other protesters confronted federal officers stationed at the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse and the Multnomah County Justice Center downtown.</p><p data-block-key=\"9zi2g\">After retreating, federal agents emerged again after 2 a.m. to use crowd control munitions to disperse the smaller group of protesters that remained at the courthouse, according to the <a href=\"https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/07/portland-protests-continue-for-54th-night-amid-controversy-surrounding-federal-officers-presence.html\">Oregonian</a>. Around that time, agents shot pepper balls at Lewis-Rolland and threw a tear gas grenade in his direction, he said.</p><p data-block-key=\"t1h59\">In footage of the incident that Lewis-Rolland provided the Tracker, he can be heard saying, “This is what makes me nervous, when there’s all this smoke and they don’t know who is who.”</p><p data-block-key=\"64mnj\">Seconds later, federal officers begin to fire in his direction and he moves behind a tree.</p><p data-block-key=\"qsieo\">“I have my hands in the air, I’m marked as press, I’m being fired upon,” Lewis-Rolland can be heard saying as he backs away. Then one officer advances towards him and tosses a tear gas grenade in his direction.</p><p data-block-key=\"7l361\">Lewis-Rolland’s helmet, T-shirt and backpack were all marked “press,” according to an interview he did with <a href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amberjamieson/portland-photographer-takes-picture-officer-pointing-weapon\">Buzzfeed</a>. He also said he wrapped his Nikon camera in fluorescent tape so that officers don’t mistake it for a weapon.</p><p data-block-key=\"kz5x6\">Lewis-Rolland told Buzzfeed that officers were pointing their weapons at protesters and press alike that night. "I saw them pointing them at everybody and anyone, including me," he said, adding, “Last night was the most horrifying thing I have ever experienced in my life.”</p><p data-block-key=\"tvzwx\">Lewis-Rolland, a defendant in the ACLU class action suit, <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/two-portland-journalists-hit-crowd-control-munitions-fired-federal-agents-leaving-one-multiple-injuries/\">provided testimony</a> about an incident earlier in July in which he was injured by munitions fired by federal agents.</p><p data-block-key=\"w804u\">DHS, which has coordinated the federal presence in Portland, said in a <a href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/07/21/portland-riots-read-out-july-21\">statement</a> that officers used pepper balls and tear gas to respond to an “assault” against the courthouse and law enforcement officers by rioters. The agency didn’t respond to a request for comment on the incidents.</p><p data-block-key=\"mq7by\">The Portland police said in a <a href=\"https://www.portlandoregon.gov/police/news/read.cfm?id=251010\">statement</a> that its officers weren’t present and didn’t engage with protesters that evening.</p></div>",
"introduction": "",
"teaser": "",
"teaser_image": null,
"primary_video": null,
"image_caption": "",
"arresting_authority": null,
"arrest_status": null,
"release_date": null,
"detention_date": null,
"unnecessary_use_of_force": false,
"case_number": null,
"case_type": null,
"status_of_seized_equipment": null,
"is_search_warrant_obtained": false,
"actor": null,
"border_point": null,
"target_us_citizenship_status": null,
"denial_of_entry": false,
"stopped_previously": false,
"did_authorities_ask_for_device_access": null,
"did_authorities_ask_about_work": null,
"assailant": "law enforcement",
"was_journalist_targeted": "yes",
"charged_under_espionage_act": false,
"subpoena_type": null,
"name_of_business": null,
"third_party_business": null,
"legal_order_venue": null,
"status_of_prior_restraint": null,
"mistakenly_released_materials": false,
"links": [],
"equipment_seized": [],
"equipment_broken": [],
"state": {
"name": "Oregon",
"abbreviation": "OR"
},
"updates": [],
"case_statuses": [],
"workers_whose_communications_were_obtained": [],
"target_nationality": [],
"targeted_institutions": [],
"tags": [
"Black Lives Matter",
"chemical irritant",
"protest",
"shot / shot at"
],
"politicians_or_public_figures_involved": [],
"authors": [],
"categories": [
"Assault"
],
"targeted_journalists": [
"Mathieu Lewis-Rolland (Independent)"
],
"subpoena_statuses": [],
"type_of_denial": []
},
{
"title": "Video journalist says federal agents threw tear gas, smashed windows during Portland protests",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/journalists-allege-federal-agents-threw-tear-gas-smashed-van-windows-during-portland-protests/",
"first_published_at": "2020-09-02T13:45:19.994292Z",
"last_published_at": "2024-06-17T15:38:48.990150Z",
"latest_revision_created_at": "2024-06-17T15:38:48.899685Z",
"date": "2020-07-21",
"exact_date_unknown": false,
"city": "Portland",
"longitude": -122.67621,
"latitude": 45.52345,
"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"ahb5y\">Craig Jardula, co-owner of the Los Angeles-based video news outlet The Convo Couch, said he was caught in a cloud of tear gas and had guns pointed at him and a colleague by law-enforcement officers as they covered protests in Portland, Oregon, on July 21, 2020. They also said officers smashed the windows of a van they were using.</p><p data-block-key=\"sue18\">Jardula said he had arrived in Portland two days earlier with his colleague Fiorella Isabel Mayorca to cover the Portland protests that had <a href=\"https://apnews.com/a2c8f23381dcc7e6902452b55c3048ce\">grown more intense</a> as the presence of federal law enforcement increased.</p><p data-block-key=\"y0pt7\">Demonstrations against police violence and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement have been held across the U.S. since late May. They were sparked by a video showing the death of George Floyd, a Black man, while in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25.</p><p data-block-key=\"og6w4\">Jardula told the U.S Press Freedom Tracker he arrived at a demonstration at approximately 9:30 p.m. on July 20 outside the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse downtown, where federal law enforcement officers were stationed.</p><p data-block-key=\"1gg9h\">Jardula <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a32q_M7nLiQ\">streamed live on YouTube</a> for several hours, documenting the demonstration and interviewing protesters. He said he returned to a van parked nearby that they had been using as a media station and spot to rest and regroup a little after midnight. Dubbed the “Bernie Van,” it was owned by progressive activist David Crow and had been used as he independently campaigned for U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders during the recent Democratic primary. It was adorned with progressive slogans, including “Defund the Police.”</p><p data-block-key=\"pys9o\">While inside the van at approximately 12:30 a.m., Jardula saw what he believed were federal law enforcement officers in riot gear come out of the courthouse and start to throw tear gas canisters on the ground to push protesters back, he said.</p><p data-block-key=\"uxno3\">“We started choking from the smoke that came in,” Jardula said. “We were pouring water on our faces. We were almost panicking.”</p><p data-block-key=\"wbe6l\">The Tracker has documented Mayorca’s assault here.</p><p data-block-key=\"4hcc2\">Jardula continued to film the scene. An officer saw Jardula and Mayorca and alerted other agents to the van. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/Fiorella_im/status/1285545570220691456\">Video</a> posted on Twitter shows an officer pointing a gun at the van before a group of officers approach, shining flashlights on them and hitting the windows until they shatter.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Watch how the <a href=\"https://twitter.com/theconvocouch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@theconvocouch</a> team <a href=\"https://twitter.com/yopasta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@yopasta</a> & myself were inside the Berrnie Van, as feds descended upon us and began tear-gassing protestors. We couldn’t get out bc of the gas but we also couldn’t breathe. Feds then smashed the windows & pointed guns at us as the vid goes black. <a href=\"https://t.co/jw0dOAeW22\">pic.twitter.com/jw0dOAeW22</a></p>— Fiorella Isabel🪓 ☭ ⚒🔥🕊 (@Fiorella_im) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/Fiorella_im/status/1285545570220691456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2020</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"3tfyg\">Jardula said that it appeared that the federal officers “wanted everybody out of that area, no matter who you are. They were setting a perimeter to push everyone back.”</p><p data-block-key=\"6662n\">While a number of federal agencies <a href=\"https://www.vox.com/2020/7/20/21328387/portland-protests-unmarked-arrest-trump-wold\">reportedly</a> had officers in Portland in July, it wasn’t clear to Mayorca and Jardula which agency the officers they encountered were from. The Department of Homeland Security, which coordinated the federal presence in Portland, did not respond to requests for comment.</p><p data-block-key=\"8xbhh\">After the van’s windows were smashed, Jardula said he left the vehicle and shouted to the officers that he was a member of the press.</p><p data-block-key=\"pewtm\">The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker documents journalists assaulted, arrested, struck by crowd-control ammunition or tear gas or who had their equipment damaged in the course of reporting. Find all incidents related to Black Lives Matter and anti-police brutality protests <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\">here</a>.</p></div>",
"introduction": "",
"teaser": "",
"teaser_image": null,
"primary_video": null,
"image_caption": "",
"arresting_authority": null,
"arrest_status": null,
"release_date": null,
"detention_date": null,
"unnecessary_use_of_force": false,
"case_number": null,
"case_type": null,
"status_of_seized_equipment": null,
"is_search_warrant_obtained": false,
"actor": null,
"border_point": null,
"target_us_citizenship_status": null,
"denial_of_entry": false,
"stopped_previously": false,
"did_authorities_ask_for_device_access": null,
"did_authorities_ask_about_work": null,
"assailant": "law enforcement",
"was_journalist_targeted": "no",
"charged_under_espionage_act": false,
"subpoena_type": null,
"name_of_business": null,
"third_party_business": null,
"legal_order_venue": null,
"status_of_prior_restraint": null,
"mistakenly_released_materials": false,
"links": [],
"equipment_seized": [],
"equipment_broken": [],
"state": {
"name": "Oregon",
"abbreviation": "OR"
},
"updates": [],
"case_statuses": [],
"workers_whose_communications_were_obtained": [],
"target_nationality": [],
"targeted_institutions": [],
"tags": [
"Black Lives Matter",
"chemical irritant",
"protest"
],
"politicians_or_public_figures_involved": [],
"authors": [],
"categories": [
"Assault"
],
"targeted_journalists": [
"Craig Jardula (The Convo Couch)"
],
"subpoena_statuses": [],
"type_of_denial": []
}
]
