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"title": "Journalist pushed by police officers while covering protests in Portland",
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"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"8ev87\">Freelance journalist Emily Molli was pushed by law enforcement while covering protests against racial injustice and police brutality in Portland, Oregon, on Aug. 5, 2020, according to first-hand accounts and social media posts.</p><p data-block-key=\"5qhsq\">That night and into the following morning of Aug. 6, demonstrations were held in North Portland outside the headquarters of the Portland Police Association, the union representing the Portland Police Bureau. Shortly before midnight, law enforcement declared the gathering an unlawful assembly after an unidentified individual tried to break into the building, according to <a href=\"https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/08/police-declare-riot-amid-protest-at-union-building-no-injuries-in-area-shootings.html\">statements by the police to local news media</a>.</p><p data-block-key=\"jm9mr\">In a <a href=\"https://twitter.com/PDocumentarians/status/1290983248823087104\">video</a> of the events that night shared on Twitter by freelance journalist Justin Yau, a police officer is seen telling a group of journalists trying to film an arrest that, “press needs to stop interfering,” and then pushing a female journalist wearing a white press helmet. Yau identified the journalist as freelance videographer and photographer Emily Molli.</p><p data-block-key=\"5dwzo\">Molli shared Yau’s tweet and <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/?targeted_journalists=867\">previously told the Tracker</a> about getting pushed by police and getting hit with a crowd-control round during Portland protests, but hasn’t responded to text messages seeking comment on this incident.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Members of the press filming the injured arrestee were pushed away and accused if interfering. Several journalists including members of foreign news media were shoved away. <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/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BlackLivesMatter</a> <a href=\"https://t.co/goFiwQBfe0\">pic.twitter.com/goFiwQBfe0</a></p>— Justin Yau (@PDocumentarians) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/PDocumentarians/status/1290983248823087104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 5, 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=\"d1ntt\">Since July 2020, law enforcement officers from the PPB and federal agencies have been barred by court rulings from arresting, harming or impeding journalists or legal observers of the protests. The Portland Police Bureau has said it wouldn’t comment on incidents involving journalists covering the protests, citing continuing litigation.</p><p data-block-key=\"engqm\">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>",
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"title": "Independent journalist says was pushed by a Portland law enforcement officer",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/independent-journalist-says-was-pushed-portland-law-enforcement-officer/",
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"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"ekouo\">Independent journalist Alissa Azar said she was pushed by a law enforcement officer while she was covering protests on Aug. 5, 2020, in Portland, Oregon.</p><p data-block-key=\"z0v88\">The protest was one of many that have broken out across the U.S. 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=\"hn0tl\">Law enforcement officers in Portland have targeted journalists since the outbreak of the demonstrations, according to a <a href=\"https://aclu-or.org/en/cases/index-newspapers-llc-v-city-portland\">class-action lawsuit</a> filed in June by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon. The ACLU suit led to the city agreeing to <a href=\"https://aclu-or.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/2020-07-16_preliminary_injunction.pdf\">a preliminary injunction</a> in July to not arrest, harm or impede the work of journalists or legal observers of the protests.</p><p data-block-key=\"b5grn\">On Aug. 5, Azar was covering a demonstration that <a href=\"https://twitter.com/PNWYLF/status/1291121782452154368/photo/1\">started</a> at Floyd Light City Park in Southeast Portland at around 8 p.m. Protesters then marched to the Portland Police Bureau’s East Precinct station, about a five-minute walk from the park. When protesters arrived at the precinct, some of them <a href=\"https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/protests/protesters-again-gather-for-demonstrations-across-portland/283-3c041d81-ad96-4fce-afb8-6dcad3107840\">vandalized</a> surveillance cameras and set small fires outside the precinct, according to KGW8, the local NBC affiliate.</p><p data-block-key=\"updet\">At around 10 p.m., after declaring the protest a riot, law enforcement officers responded with tear gas, driving the demonstrators away from the precinct station into the surrounding residential neighborhood.</p><p data-block-key=\"o1vr4\">At 10:36 p.m., Azar <a href=\"https://twitter.com/R3volutionDaddy/status/1291246837005815808\">posted</a> a video on Twitter showing a police officer directing protesters to move north as another group of officers arrests someone on the ground in the middle of a street. Azar continues to film as officers push observers from the progressive legal organization National Lawyers Guild away as they try to film the arrest. About 40 seconds in, an officer appears to approach Azar, and then her camera goes askew as she yells out.</p><p data-block-key=\"f387h\">“They pushed me and nlg for trying to film this,” Azar, who didn’t respond to interview requests from the Tracker, <a href=\"https://twitter.com/R3volutionDaddy/status/1291246837005815808\">wrote</a> on the post accompanying the video.</p><p data-block-key=\"zpkhd\">The incident was also captured by Oregon Public Broadcasting reporter Sergio Olmos from across the street. About 45 seconds into footage he <a href=\"https://twitter.com/MrOlmos/status/1291244875946405891\">posted</a>, an officer can be seen pushing the NLG observer and Azar. There was a combination of Portland police and Oregon State Police involved in clearing the protesters, <a href=\"https://twitter.com/MrOlmos/status/1291259703419211777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1291259703419211777%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3%2Ccontainerclick_1&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpdx.recompilermag.com%2F2020%2F08%2F06%2Fprotests-for-august-5%2F\">according</a> to Olmos.</p><p data-block-key=\"dgfnr\">Portland Police Bureau spokesman Derek Carmon declined to comment on the video and Azar’s allegation, citing continuing litigation.</p></div>",
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"title": "Freelance journalist pushed by police officers while covering protests in Portland",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/journalists-pushed-by-police-officers-while-covering-protests-in-portland/",
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"title": "Independent journalist shoved and maced by police officers during Portland protest",
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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=\"8j0dw\">After more than two months of nightly protests in Portland, tensions had <a href=\"https://www.koin.com/news/protests/night-63-feds-withdraw-replaced-by-state-troopers-in-portland/\">begun to ease</a> in the wake of the federal government’s agreement in late July to end its crackdown on protests, leaving enforcement to local police. The PPB, meanwhile, had <a href=\"https://aclu-or.org/en/press-releases/judge-grants-preliminary-injunction-aclu-case-protect-journalists-and-legal-observers\">recently agreed</a> not to arrest or harm any journalists or legal observers in response to a class-action lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon. Johnson, a recent graduate of Portland State University who had worked for the school’s magazine and newspaper, is <a href=\"https://aclu-or.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/aclu_or_dhs_tro_declarations_packet072020.pdf\">involved</a> in the ACLU suit.</p><p data-block-key=\"syo6j\">Around 11 p.m. on Aug. 1, Johnson was using his phone to film police clearing a residential street after a protest that began at the Penumbra Kelly Building on East Burnside Street dispersed southward. Johnson told the Tracker that there were about 100 protesters left at this point. In a <a href=\"https://twitter.com/FancyJenkins/status/1289808596243374082\">video</a> Johnson later tweeted, the officers can be heard warning protesters that it was an unlawful assembly and they should disperse.</p><p data-block-key=\"srp5p\">About 40 seconds into the video, a line of officers can be seen advancing down the residential street, yelling, “Move!” and “Get out of the street!” An officer can be heard saying, “On the sidewalk, get on the sidewalk,” as the camera angle swings upward. That’s when an officer pushed Johnson into a bush, he told the Tracker. Johnson said he had moved between parked cars when the officer used a baton to shove him, and that he injured his pinky toe when he tried to catch his fall.</p><p data-block-key=\"vozze\">Johnson was still filming as he attempted to follow the officer, asking for his badge number. Reading the number on the back of the officer’s helmet, he can be heard yelling that it was “officer No. 6” that shoved him.</p><p data-block-key=\"wa635\">Then the camera goes askew again, as another officer shoves him into a car, Johnson told the Tracker. His knees hyperextended when he hit the bumper, he said. Johnson said that when he looked up, he was immediately maced. In the video, a police officer driving by in a riot van can be heard saying, “Smart move.”</p><p data-block-key=\"i2695\">Johnson said that his phone flew out of his hand when he got hit, but that it continued to record. In the audio, someone can be heard giving Johnson back his helmet, which is labelled “press” on five sides (front, left, right, back and top).</p><p data-block-key=\"v467n\">“Did they mace you too?” a person can be heard asking. “Yeah,” Johnson replied. People continue to assist him, including helping him rinse his eyes.</p><p data-block-key=\"0seqa\">The recording then gets cut off, but at 11:22 p.m. Johnson <a href=\"https://twitter.com/FancyJenkins/status/1289808749511602177\">tweeted</a> the rest of the audio. About 35 seconds into the recording, a person says, “That was pretty distinctly them shoving and macing press. I mean, you’ve got the fucking helmet and everything.” Johnson and the bystander can then be heard finding his phone, which was still recording, on the ground.</p><p data-block-key=\"9ub2f\">Johnson told the Tracker the pain in his right leg from hitting the bumper made it difficult to cover subsequent protests. “It’s very uncomfortable to go to sleep at night,” he said.</p><p data-block-key=\"dkomp\">Garrison Davis, who was with fellow Portland-based journalist <a href=\"https://twitter.com/IwriteOK/status/1289800286236635136\">Robert Evans</a> at the time, captured Johnson getting shoved on camera from another angle. At 11:16 p.m., Davis <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hungrybowtie/status/1289807143961427970\">tweeted</a> about the incident, referencing Johnson’s Twitter handle: “It’s pretty dark, but if you look closely you can see the police assault and thrown journalist <a href=\"https://twitter.com/FancyJenkins\">@FancyJenkins</a> (white helmet) onto the hood of the car. He got badly maced.” In the video, Johnson can be seen following the officer that pushed him while another officer runs up from behind and slams him into the car.</p><p data-block-key=\"83923\">Members of the <a href=\"https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/portland-press-corps-protests.php\">Portland Press Corps</a> who go by @45thabsurdist on Twitter were also present at the incident. “Lost the march helping someone who was maced and shoved between two cars,” they <a href=\"https://twitter.com/45thabsurdist/status/1289796592506003457\">tweeted</a> at 10:34 p.m.</p><p data-block-key=\"ohlef\">At 11 p.m., @45thabsurdist <a href=\"https://twitter.com/45thabsurdist/status/1289803193606500352\">tweeted</a> at Multnomah County district attorney Mike Schmidt: “For the record,<a href=\"https://twitter.com/FancyJenkins\"> @FancyJenkins</a> is the reporter who just got maced while clearly marked, standing aside, filming.”</p><p data-block-key=\"fmi93\">A PPB <a href=\"https://www.portlandoregon.gov/police/news/read.cfm?id=251060\">statement</a> about the Aug. 1 protests said that “people with ‘press’ written on their outer garments repeatedly threw objects at officers.”</p><p data-block-key=\"7benp\">Sergeant Kevin Allen of the PPB told the Tracker that he didn’t have information about the incident involving Johnson, but said the PPB “requires that members use only the objectively reasonable force necessary to perform their duties and overcome the threat or resistance of the subject under the totality of the circumstances.”</p><p data-block-key=\"fk2lc\">Allen didn’t respond to a request to share records on people identifying as members of the press throwing objects.</p><p data-block-key=\"jrkmn\">Davis and Evans said they didn’t see any evidence of people marked “press” throwing things. “I saw no press throwing bottles,” Evans, a reporter for investigative news site Bellingcat and host of a podcast for iHeartMedia, told the Tracker.</p></div>",
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"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"euaom\"><i>George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, ignited a sweeping assembly of protesters across the United States — and the globe — a staggering, monthslong outcry for police reform and racial justice. In many moments peaceful, in many others bracingly violent, journalists of all stripes took to documenting these demonstrations. At times, to do the job meant to expose oneself to the effects of riot-control agents, to face harassment from individuals or law enforcement officials, to fear for your safety or have your reporting interrupted. Below is a geographically organized roundup of such examples from around the U.S. during August 2020. Protests in Portland, Oregon, were particularly acute in the summer of 2020. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker has documented incidents that occurred there in a separate</i> <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/portland-while-reporting-protests-city-journalists-tear-gassed-threatened/\"><i>roundup</i></a><i>.</i></p><p data-block-key=\"ess5w\"><i>A full accounting of incidents in which members of the press were assaulted, arrested or had their equipment damaged while covering these protests can be found</i> <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\"><i>here</i></a><i>. To learn more about how the Tracker documents and categorizes violations of press freedom, visit</i> <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/frequently-asked-questions/\"><i>pressfreedomtracker.us</i></a><i>.</i></p></div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"7zgxb\"><b>Aug. 1, 2020</b></p><p data-block-key=\"7s0hd\">In Los Angeles, California</p><ul><li data-block-key=\"nseia\"><b>Josie Huang</b>, a reporter with KPCC and LAist, was covering a protest organized by the People’s City Council outside the Getty House, the official residence of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. At around 2:45 p.m., she <a href=\"https://twitter.com/josie_huang/status/1289678532109406213\">tweeted</a>: “About a dozen LAPD officers watching from across the street as mariachi music is interspersed with protesters testifying on need to cancel rent during pandemic.” After two and a half hours of peaceful protesting, though, Huang <a href=\"https://twitter.com/josie_huang/status/1289714357220159488?s=20\">wrote</a> that the “situation has quickly deteriorated.” In a subsequent <a href=\"https://twitter.com/josie_huang/status/1289723225337761792\">video</a>, in which Huang noted that she was trying to document the detainment and citation of “an 18-year-old named Elliott ‘for being a pedestrian in the roadway,’” the journalist can be heard identifying herself as a member of the press to a group of encroaching officers. Moments later, a sergeant (identified by his badge in the video) can be seen responding to one of his subordinate’s irritation at Huang’s camera being near his face by saying, “Grab her and cite her!” When she restates her media affiliation, the sergeant’s subordinate responds, “OK, let’s get on the sidewalk, everyone get on the sidewalk” — neither acknowledging her as separate from the protesters nor citing her. When reached for comment about the case, the LAPD declined to comment and directed the Tracker to file a FOIA request for further information.</li></ul></div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"kuqrt\"><b>Aug. 14, 2020</b></p><p data-block-key=\"p7fon\">In Washington, D.C.</p><ul><li data-block-key=\"1ks7m\">Deadspin reporter <b>Chuck Modiano</b> was filming a police maneuver called <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/blog/journalists-covering-protests-us-risk-getting-caught-police-kettling-tactic/\">kettling</a> at the intersection of Willard and 18th streets when several field medical workers moved through the crowd in front of him. A video <a href=\"https://twitter.com/ChuckModi1/status/1294145592155922432\">posted on</a> Modiano’s Twitter feed at 1:35 a.m. shows a senior police officer addressing Modiano, asking, “You gonna go with them?” Modiano responds, “I’m press,” and the officer retorts, “I don’t care who you are. Back up. It means nothing to me.” Modiano then says, “Doesn’t knowing that I’m free press mean anything to the Constitution?” to which the police officer says, “Sure it does. It’s the First Amendment.” When Modiano asks the officer, “Shouldn’t police respect the First Amendment?” the officer affirms his respect for the amendment. He then asks Modiano to respect his work as well before instructing him to leave with the crowd of protesters as the Metropolitan Police Department clears the block. Another officer begins to direct Modiano out of the street. The journalist tries to stay again, stating, “I’m press,” to which officers reply, “Keep moving.” Echoing the prior encounter, Modiano asks, “It doesn’t mean anything?” and the two officers agree, telling him, “It doesn’t matter.” As Modiano repeatedly asks, “Can you acknowledge that there’s no freedom of press?” the officers speak over him, saying, “Keep moving, keep moving.” Modiano <a href=\"https://twitter.com/ChuckModi1/status/1294173856236806145\">continued to</a> cover the protest until 3:30 a.m.</li></ul></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ME: “I’m press”<br><br>COP: “I don’t care who you are. <br>It means nothing to me”<br><br>Wasn’t able to film protesters right after they were kettled/arrested cuz MPD walked me off cuz the 1st Ammendment is not respected in the nation’s Capitol. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/DCProtests?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DCProtests</a> <a href=\"https://t.co/uTc4kSN2vr\">pic.twitter.com/uTc4kSN2vr</a></p>— ChuckModi (@ChuckModi1) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/ChuckModi1/status/1294145592155922432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 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=\"d22gx\"><b>Aug. 19, 2020</b></p><p data-block-key=\"at2nm\">In Seattle, Washington</p><ul><li data-block-key=\"sopah\">Jon Jussero, a photojournalist for KIRO 7, was stopped in his car and threatened by a group of people while he was trying to film a protest at King County Jail in Seattle, Washington, on Aug. 19, 2020, according to his social media feed. Protesters had demonstrated on a highway and at a medical center that morning before trying to enter the jail, according to <a href=\"https://komonews.com/news/local/protesters-stop-traffic-close-public-entrance-at-king-county-jail\">KOMO News</a>. In a video Jussero posted on Twitter, a man can be heard saying through the closed windows of the vehicle that he would come to Jussero’s house and threatened to break his window. People draped fabric over Jussero’s windshield and driver’s side window, and shouted obscenities at him. In a different part of the clip, Jussero was outside the vehicle when people surrounded him and shouted at him. “We are just trying to do our jobs,” he wrote in his post. Jussero did not respond to multiple requests for comment. A spokesperson for the Seattle Police Department said police were not aware of the incident.</li></ul></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mob would not allow me to do my job today when trying to videotape KC Jail in Seattle. I tried to leave but they surrounded my car put items on windows & continued to terrorize me. One man threaten to break my vehicle windows & come to my home. We are just trying to do our jobs <a href=\"https://t.co/Ek3JRkG12c\">pic.twitter.com/Ek3JRkG12c</a></p>— KIRO 7 Jussero (@JJusseroKIRO7) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JJusseroKIRO7/status/1296271397690384384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 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=\"5iazu\"><b>Aug. 26, 2020</b></p><p data-block-key=\"hxnpx\">In Seattle, Washington</p><ul><li data-block-key=\"jul38\"><b>Omari Salisbury</b>, founder and reporter for <a href=\"https://www.whereweconverge.com/about\">Converge Media</a>, a Seattle-based media company “curated specifically for an urban audience,” was maced several times while documenting a vigil outside a Washington State Patrol building. Salisbury went live on <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/WWConverge/videos/355310738820842/\">Facebook</a> around 10:15 p.m., just as law enforcement was beginning to fall into formation in an effort to back demonstrators out of the area. In his narrated stream, Salisbury tells viewers that the WSP was reinforced that night with officers from the Seattle Police Department and its SWAT team. He also explains a June <a href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6951791-Stipulated-Extension-of-TRO.html\">court order</a> that “enjoined the City of Seattle, including the Seattle Police Department and any other officers, departments, agencies, or organizations under the Seattle Police Department’s control” from “employing chemical irritants or projectiles of any kind against persons peacefully engaging in protests or demonstrations.” About six minutes into the video, as the line of officers advanced on demonstrators, Salisbury was maced. While backing up, Salisbury announces himself as press, as he continues to narrate the scene. Just past 10:30 p.m., Salisbury was maced again, as officers once again moved to push back the crowd. Shortly thereafter, sprays of mace can be heard and seen in the footage, with Salisbury saying at one point, “Man, you’re macing everybody. Stop macing,” and then shouting, “Press! Press! Press!” as protesters around him were tackled and arrested. “I haven’t eaten this much mace in a long time,” he then says. (In a Dec. 7 <a href=\"https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20421000-2020-12-07-order-granting-contempt-clean\">court filing</a>, a federal judge held the Seattle Police Department and the City of Seattle in contempt for violating the aforementioned court order on four occasions, including on Aug. 26.)</li></ul></div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"gt13r\">In Kenosha, Wisconsin</p><ul><li data-block-key=\"hfijq\">Freelance journalist <b>Suzette Smith</b> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/suzettesmith/status/1298493980833849344\">tweeted</a> shortly before midnight that officers were arresting protesters on 54th Street near City Hall in east Kenosha. “Officer holding can of mace on a group of press, that may include a protester,” Smith wrote. In footage of the incident, an officer can be seen holding his arm outstretched and pointing a can of pepper spray toward at least two individuals who are identifiable as journalists, either by “PRESS” markings or visible press passes. In the last seconds of the clip, a second officer approaches, at which point the first officer lowers the can of chemical irritant.</li></ul></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">More video of the arrests on SW 4th. Officer holding a can of mace on a group of press, that may include a protester. <a href=\"https://t.co/59KpW5C08y\">pic.twitter.com/59KpW5C08y</a></p>— Suzette Smith (@suzettesmith) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/suzettesmith/status/1298493980833849344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 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=\"pd1g7\">The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker documented <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/?city=Kenosha&date_lower=2020-08-25&date_upper=2020-08-26\">four journalists struck</a> with crowd-control munitions or projectiles while covering protests in Kenosha on the night of Aug. 25 that stretched into the early hours of the next day.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"9mceb\"><b>Aug. 29, 2020</b></p><p data-block-key=\"7fqir\">In Washington, D.C.</p><ul><li data-block-key=\"4e7t6\">Independent journalist Wyatt Reed was hit with a chemical irritant deployed by police during a protest in Washington, D.C. Protests were intensified by anger over the Aug. 23 police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, as well as by the gathering of thousands in the nation’s capital the day before for the 57th anniversary of the civil rights era March on Washington.<a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2020/08/29/protesters-start-fires-in-adams-morgan/\"> According to the Washington Post</a>, a group of about 175 protesters had marched through several neighborhoods of Northwest D.C. that evening, at times setting off fireworks and lighting small fires before converging on Black Lives Matter Plaza, just north of the White House. Reed, who also produces the radio show By Any Means Necessary on Russian-state owned Radio Sputnik, was covering protesters near the plaza. In a video he uploaded to Twitter at 11:40 p.m., police can be seen deploying tear gas canisters on H Street in front of the St. James Episcopal Church, just a block north of the White House. As officers advanced east on H Street, one can be seen spraying with a sweeping motion a chemical irritant that appears to hit Reed. “DC Cops are going CRAZY at BLM plaza,”<a href=\"https://twitter.com/wyattreed13/status/1299914900228235265\"> Reed wrote on Twitter</a> alongside the video. “They arrested someone and then started unleashed tear gas on the crowd, then unloaded pepper spray DIRECTLY at me for recording.” In the video, Reed’s camera shook as he got hit, but he continued filming as police cleared the area and deployed more tear gas. “They didn’t get me that bad that night,” Reed told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker. He added he was wearing goggles, which reduced the effect of the irritant. Reed was wearing press identification, but told the Tracker he believed the officer was firing indiscriminately at everybody near him. The Metropolitan Police Department told the Tracker it couldn’t comment on the incident because “it is currently under active investigation by our Internal Affairs Division.Early the next morning — at the same protest — Reed was again sprayed with a chemical irritant and shot in the arm with a projectile. The Tracker <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/independent-journalist-hit-crowd-control-round-during-dc-protest/\">documented that assault here</a>.</li></ul></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: DC Cops are going CRAZY at BLM plaza. They arrested someone and then started unleashed tear gas on the crowd, then unloaded pepper spray DIRECTLY at me for recording <a href=\"https://t.co/Im60AVlI9z\">pic.twitter.com/Im60AVlI9z</a></p>— Wyatt Reed (@wyattreed13) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/wyattreed13/status/1299914900228235265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 30, 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\"><ul><li data-block-key=\"vkldh\">Independent photojournalist <b>Oyoma Asinor</b> was covering protests around BLM Plaza that evening as well, according to an Aug. 12, 2021, <a href=\"https://www.acludc.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/asinor_v._district_of_columbia_-_complaint.pdf\">lawsuit</a> the ACLU of DC filed on Asinor’s behalf. At around 11 p.m., Asinor photographed as riot officers advanced down H Street toward 16th Street. “Several riot officers, apparently frustrated that [a] demonstrator was now closer to them, grabbed the demonstrator and pushed him to the ground, wielding batons against him,” the lawsuit states. When the demonstrator attempted to get away from the officers, and officer “unleashed liquid containing chemical irritant toward the demonstrator and the people near him, hitting Mr. Asinor.” The spray caused Asinor to have trouble breathing, cough, and experience disorientation, according to the suit. Just over 24 hours later, Asinor was assaulted, arrested and his equipment seized in the early hours of Aug. 31. <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/aclu-files-for-false-imprisonment-against-washington-dc-police-after-photojournalist-arrested-equipment-seized/\">The Tracker documented that incident here</a>.</li></ul></div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"jdpe1\"><b>Aug. 30, 2020</b></p><p data-block-key=\"f83z1\">In Washington, D.C.</p><ul><li data-block-key=\"p0c00\">Independent photojournalist and documentary filmmaker <b>Kian Kelley-Chung</b> had been filming the D.C. Black Lives Matter movement since the middle of June. He told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker in a phone interview that on the evening of Aug. 29, he was planning to take the night off. But at 8 p.m., one of the movement’s organizers called him and his friend and colleague Andrew Jasiura to tell them that protests near Black Lives Matter Plaza downtown were escalating. The two filmmakers got to the scene by 9 p.m. and saw the Metropolitan Police Department “just spraying people willy-nilly,” according to Kelley-Chung. In the early hours of Aug. 30, he said that he watched as a crowd of protesters gathered to face off against a police line at 16th and K streets, less than a block away from the plaza. At 1:42 a.m., according to the time stamp on his camera, Kelley-Chung, who said he’d been walking through the crowd to get a panning shot of the scene, was hit in the side of the face “with just tons of pepper spray.” While he’d brought goggles with him that night, the filmmaker told the Tracker that he hadn’t put them on before the incident because he was not expecting the sudden use of crowd-control munitions at that moment. “It came out of nowhere,” he said. He said that he ran to the other side of the street, trying to continue to film, but his eyes burned badly enough that he had to stop. He attempted to flush them out with a water bottle he had but soon yelled for a medic until a few came over and flushed his eyes with saline. Shortly thereafter, in an <a href=\"https://twitter.com/ChuckModi1/status/1299957816048988161\">interview</a> with Deadspin reporter Chuck Modiano, Kelley-Chung suggested that the police were aiming at someone near him, but he “was caught in the crossfire.” He later told the Tacker: “Independent press were largely not considered legitimate press by the police, so they were often victims of pepper spray, arrests and other things of that nature. Just getting brutalized by police.”</li></ul></div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"gj13r\"><b>Aug. 31, 2020</b></p><p data-block-key=\"tr70s\">In Kenosha, Wisconsin</p><ul><li data-block-key=\"vs1ei\">Los Angeles Times reporter <b>Molly Hennessy-Fiske</b>, arrived in Kenosha after the city had seen days of unrest following the Aug. 23 police shooting of Jacob Blake and was anticipating a visit from President Donald Trump on Sept. 1. Hennessy-Fiske <a href=\"https://twitter.com/mollyhf/status/1300604735431618561\">tweeted</a> a little before 8:30 p.m. that she’d momentarily stepped out of her hotel to put a parking pass on her car when she saw police restraining an individual. When she and photojournalist Amy Katz approached, wearing credentials and clothing that said “press,” an officer shouted, “Last warning! Get in the hotel or you’re going to get arrested. I don’t care what the mayor says.” When Hennessy-Fiske then identified herself and Katz as press, the officer did not reply. When the two journalists then reentered the hotel, an officer inside the building <a href=\"https://twitter.com/mollyhf/status/1300604735431618561\">told</a> her that media were not explicitly listed as exempt from a citywide <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/jacob-blake-kenosha-police-shooting-08-31-2020/h_b77c0f6a5c263fb4927f0ea1f2626e90\">curfew</a> that had gone into effect at 7 p.m. In a later Tweet, Hennessy-Fiske <a href=\"https://twitter.com/mollyhf/status/1300605727606800391\">noted</a> that she explained to this officer “respectfully, that media are not mentioned as subject to curfew, and since there’s a #FirstAmendment and #FEMA deemed us essential workers, if they don’t mention it, we’re exempt. If they do mention, it would trigger litigation. #1A.”</li></ul></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Emerged from <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kenosha?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Kenosha</a> hotel to put parking pass in car, saw police restraining guy, went over with colleague and officers shouted get back in hotel or we’d be arrested. Reporters are not exempt from curfew, he said, no matter what the mayor says. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/Journalismisnotacrime?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Journalismisnotacrime</a> <a href=\"https://t.co/ol0KHatn1y\">pic.twitter.com/ol0KHatn1y</a></p>— Molly Hennessy-Fiske (@mollyhf) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/mollyhf/status/1300604735431618561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 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=\"tzmnm\"><i>Information in this roundup was gathered from published social media and news reports as well as interviews where noted. To read similar incidents from other days of national protests also in this category,</i> <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/other-incident/?categories=63&date_lower=2020-05-25&tags=111\"><i>go here</i></a><i>.</i></p></div>",
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Staab said she was near the garage door, standing to the side of it.</p><p data-block-key=\"0un3t\">As the garage door was going down, Staab said, officers started shooting rubber bullets out at the protesters and press who remained.</p><p data-block-key=\"91gxt\">One rubber bullet struck her on the inside of her right knee, she said, causing her to collapse.</p><p data-block-key=\"jnx5z\">“I was just basically taken out,” she said. “My knee completely gave out and I just hit the ground.”</p><p data-block-key=\"f38lb\">Staab said several journalists who were near her pulled her away from the area and helped her up. Within 30 minutes, her knee had swollen so much that the welt was visible through her jeans, she said.</p><p data-block-key=\"bhapq\">A photograph Staab posted on Twitter later that day showed her knee very swollen and bruised.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My knee is fcked. <br><br>How did this happen?<br><br>I was shot by Federal officers while working as a journalist in <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/Portland?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Portland</a>, Oregon. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/ACLU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ACLU</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/pressfreedom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@pressfreedom</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/PortlandProtest?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PortlandProtest</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/PortlandProtests?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PortlandProtests</a> <a href=\"https://t.co/ozkN85jAyI\">pic.twitter.com/ozkN85jAyI</a></p>— Maranie R. 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Her knee... 💔 <a href=\"https://twitter.com/AthulKAcharya?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AthulKAcharya</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/ACLU_OR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ACLU_OR</a> <a href=\"https://t.co/b30vQPolTO\">pic.twitter.com/b30vQPolTO</a></p>— Mathieu Lewis-Rolland (@MathieuLRolland) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/MathieuLRolland/status/1289109167219777536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 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=\"vcde8\">Staab said she continued to cover protests in the following days, wearing shorts because her knee was so swollen. The injury hobbled her for weeks, she said.</p><p data-block-key=\"w5xki\">On the night she was hit, Staab said, she had used white masking tape with the word “PRESS” written in black marker to label herself on the front and back of her t-shirt and on her helmet. She said she was also carrying professional cameras.</p><p data-block-key=\"7nscw\">Staab said that she does not have any way to know whether she was targeted. She noted that she was not standing near demonstrators, and said that federal officers did not “attempt to delineate between protesters and press.”</p><p data-block-key=\"ccxos\">The Department of Homeland Security, whose officers were on duty that night, did not respond to a request for comment about the incident.</p><p data-block-key=\"mdgly\">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>",
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"title": "Federal agents in Portland spray independent journalist with a chemical irritant",
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A temporary restraining order on July 2 that barred the Portland police from harming or impeding journalists was expanded to<a href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-ordered-not-to-assault-arrest-journalists-in-portland/\"> include federal agents</a> on July 23. Conley is a<a href=\"https://aclu-or.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/07282020_declarations_motion_sanctions.pdf\"> plaintiff</a> in a class-action lawsuit, which was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon.</p><p data-block-key=\"cr3lt\">On the night of July 29, protesters gathered downtown at the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse, which had emerged as a nightly flashpoint between protesters and federal agents. The protest continued past midnight and into the next day.</p><p data-block-key=\"o36he\">Early on the morning of July 30, Conley was filming a confrontation between federal agents and protesters behind the courthouse on Southwest Second Avenue when officers began using crowd-control munitions and chemical irritants.</p><p data-block-key=\"ykgcv\">In a<a href=\"https://twitter.com/BaghdadBrian/status/1288940868028600320\"> video</a> of the incident Conley posted on Twitter, the scene appeared relatively calm despite a standoff with federal agents, as one protester can be heard playing ditties on a trumpet. After a loud bang, agents can be seen firing crowd-control munitions, with one officer spraying an irritant directly at Conley despite his shouts of “press!”</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here's another angle on <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/FPS?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FPS</a> and <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/DHS?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DHS</a> using <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/lesslethal?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#lesslethal</a> weapons on <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/pdxprotest?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#pdxprotest</a> and myself, despite clear PRESS markings. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/blacklivesmatter?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#blacklivesmatter</a><br><br>if you appreciate my work, help me with the cost of gear: venmo baghdadbrian, cashapp $baghdadbrian <a href=\"https://t.co/85het21LWH\">pic.twitter.com/85het21LWH</a></p>— Brian Conley (@BaghdadBrian) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/BaghdadBrian/status/1288940868028600320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 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=\"i5t4c\">Conley said he believed he was targeted. “He knew I was press, he knew the person next to me was press, there were no protesters nearby. So yeah, he had no reason to do that,” he told the Tracker.</p><p data-block-key=\"g5ytb\">About 20 seconds after he was sprayed, Conley’s video shows multiple agents spraying a protester who is on their knees in the street with their hands up.</p><p data-block-key=\"0s1cr\">Another <a href=\"https://twitter.com/TheRealCoryElia/status/1288739420745560064\">video</a>, uploaded by journalist Cory Elia at 12:33 a.m., also captured Conley getting sprayed. He is visible on the other side of the street, holding a camera with a bright light mounted on it.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">They decided to clear the street and made an arrest. I found myself surrounded for a minute. <a href=\"https://t.co/s1aIcxj8IW\">pic.twitter.com/s1aIcxj8IW</a></p>— Cory Elia (@TheRealCoryElia) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/TheRealCoryElia/status/1288739420745560064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 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=\"ql40n\">Conley, in a <a href=\"https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ord.153126/gov.uscourts.ord.153126.115.0.pdf\">statement</a> for the ACLU suit, said there were “maybe four or five protesters a few feet behind me” when he was hit.</p><p data-block-key=\"9ww50\">“At point blank range, the federal agent nearest to me unleashed a deluge of pepper spray directly at me, dousing me in pepper spray,” he said in the statement. “The pepper spray covered my face, hands, clothing, camera, and gear.”</p><p data-block-key=\"7wugy\">Conley’s body armor and helmet were both marked “press” at the time he was hit. 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"title": "Independent journalist hit with multiple projectiles fired by federal agents while covering Portland protests",
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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. Conley is a <a href=\"https://aclu-or.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/07282020_declarations_motion_sanctions.pdf\">plaintiff</a> in the class-action lawsuit, which was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon.</p><p data-block-key=\"51fd0\">On the evening of July 27, protesters gathered at the Mark O. 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Another officer soon rolls a smoking canister toward Conley before puffs of pepper ball impacts can be seen in the street directly in front of him.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It was just before 1am, not even an hour into my 40s, the <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/FPS?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FPS</a> and possibly others decided to fire concussion grenades, tear gas, possibly stingers, and definitely rubber bullets and many pepperballs directly at me. 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The only way I found out why I was being detained was because they put masking tape on our backs and had written on it,” Morgan told the Tracker. “After we were put in our holding cells, we read each other’s backs to each other and that’s how I found out I was being detained for assault on an officer.”</p><p data-block-key=\"hf0r2\">Several times throughout the morning, Morgan said federal agents would tell them all to face the wall and an agent would forcefully push their heads into the wall.</p><p data-block-key=\"dxb23\">“It wasn’t a full on slam, but it was enough that it was painful and super unnecessary,” she said. That happened at least three times.”</p><p data-block-key=\"kidvn\">Morgan also asked for medical attention to address the mace in her eyes, which burned, but received no response. 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"title": "Journalist hit in leg with crowd-control munition at Portland protest",
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Then one officer raises his hand and fires the irritant spray directly at Davis.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A federal officer sprays mace directly at me other press. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/blacklivesmatter?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#blacklivesmatter</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/Protests?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Protests</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/PortlandStrong?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PortlandStrong</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/WallOfVets?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WallOfVets</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/wallofmoms?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#wallofmoms</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/MomsAreHere?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MomsAreHere</a> <a href=\"https://t.co/GM3Y0UOwpV\">pic.twitter.com/GM3Y0UOwpV</a></p>— Garrison Davis (@hungrybowtie) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hungrybowtie/status/1287312203045978112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 26, 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=\"3zb90\">A few minutes later, Davis was shot by a rubber bullet that he believes was fired by a federal agent. “I got shot with a rubber bullet, I’m standing in a crowd of just other press people,” he <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hungrybowtie/status/1287312892140765184\">tweeted</a>.</p><p data-block-key=\"0sija\">About a half an hour later, Davis was pushed to the ground by a PPB officer. Posting blurry <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hungrybowtie/status/1287319072862920705\">footage</a> of the incident on Twitter, he wrote, “Footage doesn’t look great cause my camera is still covered in mace at this point.”</p><p data-block-key=\"q1svu\">“I’m on the sidewalk here. I’m not even on the street. And they still walk up and totally knock me over for no reason,” Davis told the Tracker. “Then when I try to get up, they continued to shove me.”</p><p data-block-key=\"n8uxd\">The Department of Homeland Security, which coordinated the federal presence in Portland, didn’t respond to a request for comment. The PPB has said it wouldn't comment on incidents involving journalists covering the protests, citing continuing litigation in the ACLU case.</p></div>",
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"title": "The Oregonian photographer struck with crowd-control weapons during Portland protests",
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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=\"m4spz\">One of the <a href=\"https://www.koin.com/news/protests/night-58-many-sites-of-portland-protests-for-black-lives-matter/\">main demonstrations</a> taking place the night of July 25 — and stretching into the next morning — was held outside the Mark O. 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That’s when he was struck on the side of the stomach by what he believes was a rubber bullet.</p><p data-block-key=\"hq1d3\">“I suddenly got hit by something big,” he said. “It just sort of dropped me. I realized right away what it must have been because I’m very familiar with all the munitions and I’ve been hit by pepper balls dozens and dozens of times over the years, so I knew it wasn’t a pepper ball.”</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After the fence came (sort of) down, things got pretty wild. Lots of gas & munitions fired in the FC area. Eventually ppl fell back, officers in camo pushing west on Main. At 4th & main I got a rubber bullet to the love handle, which is probably best case scenario, but hurt a lot <a href=\"https://t.co/MO48DowRR8\">pic.twitter.com/MO48DowRR8</a></p>— Dave Killen (@killendave) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/killendave/status/1287306079857020928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 26, 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=\"24kvy\">Killen believes he was targeted, since he was well in front of most protesters, and the agents were just just 20 or 30 feet away when he was hit. While some protesters may have been in the area, he said he didn’t have to worry about bumping into anybody as he walked around taking photos without looking where he was going.</p><p data-block-key=\"l4q83\">“I feel like at that distance, with that weapon, I don’t think there’s any way he wasn’t aiming for me,” Killen said.</p><p data-block-key=\"3hfnv\">His gear also made it obvious that he was press, said Killen, noting that he had press credentials around his neck and was shooting photos with one camera and while another camera was hanging at his side.</p><p data-block-key=\"os6x8\">Killen said he was knocked off his feet by the impact, but was able to continue working. After he informed his newsroom of the incident, he was pulled back for the night.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is it from me tonight. These pix are a mix from earlier. Can’t help but think that if it weren’t for this damn pandemic and the extra 10 pounds I’ve put on that rubber bullet would’ve missed me entirely 😬 <a href=\"https://t.co/gNAO7wn7ey\">pic.twitter.com/gNAO7wn7ey</a></p>— Dave Killen (@killendave) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/killendave/status/1287311668582551555?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 26, 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=\"yxsxm\">Killen said the munition left a huge bruise in the immediate aftermath, and that he still had a scar more than four months later.</p><p data-block-key=\"besty\">The Department of Homeland Security, which coordinated the federal presence in Portland, didn’t respond to a request for comment. The PPB has said it wouldn't comment on incidents involving journalists covering the protests, citing continuing litigation in the ACLU case.</p></div>",
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