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Daily Caller reporter hit by projectile during LA protest

Incident Details

Date of incident: September 7, 2020
Location: Los Angeles, California
Targets: Jorge Ventura (Daily Caller)

Assailant →: Law enforcement
Was the journalist targeted? →: No

Broadcast journalist stabbed with scissors while reporting in Boston

Incident Details

Updated on: August 12, 2022
Date of incident: September 6, 2020
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Targets: Ted Wayman (WCVB-TV)

Assailant →: Private individual
Was the journalist targeted? →: Yes

Equipment damaged →: Vehicle, 1
Actor →: Private individual

Journalist tackled twice by police officer at protest in Portland, Oregon

Incident Details

Date of incident: September 6, 2020
Location: Portland, Oregon
Case number: 3:20-cv-01882
Targets: Melissa “Claudio” Lewis (Independent)
Case status: Withdrawn
Type of case: Civil

Assailant →: Law enforcement
Was the journalist targeted? →: No

Photojournalist hit with projectiles, detained by police during Rochester protest

Incident Details

Date of incident: September 5, 2020
Location: Rochester, New York
Targets: Mustafa Hussain (Freelance)

Arrest status →: Detained and released without being processed
Arresting authority →: Rochester Police Department
Unnecessary use of force? →: Yes

Assailant →: Law enforcement
Was the journalist targeted? →: Yes

Journalist pushed, threatened with arrest as Portland protest declared a riot

Incident Details

Date of incident: September 5, 2020
Location: Portland, Oregon
Targets: Lesley McLam (KBOO-FM)

Assailant →: Law enforcement
Was the journalist targeted? →: Yes

Photojournalist hit with ‘dozens’ of projectiles during Rochester protest

Incident Details

Date of incident: September 5, 2020
Location: Rochester, New York
Targets: Zach Roberts (NurPhoto [Italy])

Assailant →: Law enforcement
Was the journalist targeted? →: Yes

Independent journalist struck in the neck with shrapnel on 100th day of Portland protests

Incident Details

Date of incident: September 5, 2020
Location: Portland, Oregon
Targets: Tuck Woodstock (Freelance)

Assailant →: Unknown
Was the journalist targeted? →: Unknown

Democrat and Chronicle photographer hit with projectiles during Rochester protests of less-lethal munitions while covering Daniel Prude protests

Incident Details

Date of incident: September 5, 2020
Location: Rochester, New York
Targets: Shawn Dowd (Democrat and Chronicle)

Assailant →: Law enforcement
Was the journalist targeted? →: Unknown

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