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Photojournalist struck with baton, press credential damaged at LA protest

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Incident Details

Updated on: August 31, 2026
Date of incident: August 8, 2025
Location: Los Angeles, California
Case number: 2:26-cv-09709
Targets: Nick Stern (Independent)
Case status: Ongoing
Type of case: Civil

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

Equipment damaged →: Press identification, 1
Actor →: Law enforcement

Photographer assaulted, detained while covering LA protest

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 8, 2025
Location: Los Angeles, California
Targets: Nate Gowdy (Independent)

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

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

Equipment damaged →: Camera equipment, 1
Actor →: Law enforcement

Independent journalist shoved, detained while covering LA protest

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 8, 2025
Location: Los Angeles, California
Targets: Mel Buer (Independent)

Arrest status →: Detained and released without being processed
Arresting authority →: Los Angeles Police Department
Detention date →: August 8, 2025
Unnecessary use of force? →: No

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

Journalist struck with baton, finger injured amid protests in downtown LA

Incident Details

Updated on: September 10, 2025
Date of incident: August 8, 2025
Location: Los Angeles, California
Case number: 2:25-cv-05423
Targets: Tina-Desiree Berg (Status Coup)
Case status: Ongoing
Type of case: Civil

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

Documentarian hit with police baton, equipment damaged at LA protest

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 8, 2025
Location: Los Angeles, California
Targets: Rocky Romano (Winters Rock Entertainment)

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

Equipment damaged →: Camera, 1

Camera equipment, 1
Actor →: Law enforcement

Photojournalist pushed, detained by police at LA immigration protest

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 8, 2025
Location: Los Angeles, California
Targets: Carrie Schreck (Redux Pictures)

Arrest status →: Detained and released without being processed
Arresting authority →: Los Angeles Police Department
Detention date →: August 8, 2025
Unnecessary use of force? →: No

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

Photojournalist struck with baton, detained amid LA immigration protest

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 8, 2025
Location: Los Angeles, California
Targets: Sean Beckner-Carmitchel (Freelance)

Arrest status →: Detained and released without being processed
Arresting authority →: Los Angeles Police Department
Detention date →: August 8, 2025
Unnecessary use of force? →: No

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

Agency photojournalist pushed to ground, lens damaged at LA-area protest

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 8, 2025
Location: Los Angeles, California
Targets: Chelsea Lauren (Shutterstock)

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

Equipment damaged →: Camera lens, 1
Actor →: Law enforcement

Photojournalist’s phone knocked to the ground by police officer at LA protest

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 8, 2025
Location: Los Angeles, California
Targets: Benjamin Hanson (Middle East Images & Royol News)

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

Equipment damaged →: Camera lens, 1
Actor →: Unknown

Deposition order issued for student reporting on wrongful imprisonment case

Incident Details

Updated on: November 19, 2025
Date of incident: August 5, 2025
Location: Detroit, Michigan
Targets: Sam Krevlin ([Northwestern University] Medill Investigative Lab)

Legal orders →: subpoena for other testimony

Aug. 5, 2025: Pending

Aug. 18, 2025: Objected to

Sept. 3, 2025: Objected to

Nov. 19, 2025: Partially upheld
Legal order target →: Journalist
Legal order venue →: Federal

New York Times Building vandalized with pro-Palestinian protest message

Incident Details

Date of incident: July 30, 2025
Location: New York, New York
Targets: The New York Times

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

Kari Lake targets press as senior adviser for U.S. Agency for Global Media

Incident Details

Date of incident: July 22, 2025
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Targets: Alhurra, Alhurra-Iraq, Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio y Televisión Martí, Sawa Iraq, Sawa Levant, Voice of America

Chilling Statement

Illinois community journalist says fee for library meeting space is retaliatory

Incident Details

Date of incident: July 22, 2025
Location: Elmwood Park, Illinois
Targets: Kevin Gosztola (Elmwood Park Advocate)

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WSJ reporter pulled from press pool in retaliation for Epstein article

Incident Details

Date of incident: July 21, 2025
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Targets: Tarini Parti (The Wall Street Journal)

Government agency or public official involved →: Federal government: White House
Type of denial →: Government event

Celebrity commentator subpoenaed by Blake Lively for communications

Incident Details

Updated on: September 12, 2025
Date of incident: July 19, 2025
Location: New York, New York
Targets: Perez Hilton (PerezHilton.com)

Legal orders →: subpoena for communications or work product

July 19, 2025: Pending

July 28, 2025: Objected to

Sept. 12, 2025: Dropped
Legal order target →: Journalist
Legal order venue →: Federal

Cincinnati reporter arrested as protest spills across bridge to Kentucky

Incident Details

Updated on: November 13, 2025
Date of incident: July 17, 2025
Location: Covington, Kentucky
Targets: Madeline Fening ([Cincinnati] CityBeat)

Arrest status →: Arrested and released
Arresting authority →: Covington Police Department
Charges →: Obstruction: disorderly conduct

July 17, 2025: Charges pending

Nov. 13, 2025: Charges dropped

Obstruction: obstructing an emergency responder

July 17, 2025: Charges pending

Nov. 13, 2025: Charges dropped

Rioting

July 17, 2025: Charges pending

July 23, 2025: Charges dropped

Rioting: failure to disperse

July 17, 2025: Charges pending

Nov. 13, 2025: Charges dropped

Rioting: unlawful assembly

July 17, 2025: Charges pending

Sept. 24, 2025: Charges dropped

Traffic violation: obstructing a highway or public passage

July 17, 2025: Charges pending

Nov. 13, 2025: Charges dropped
Detention date →: July 17, 2025
Release date →: July 18, 2025
Unnecessary use of force? →: No

Cincinnati photojournalist arrested as protest spills across bridge to Kentucky

Incident Details

Updated on: October 2, 2025
Date of incident: July 17, 2025
Location: Covington, Kentucky
Targets: Lucas Griffith ([Cincinnati] CityBeat)

Arrest status →: Arrested and released
Arresting authority →: Covington Police Department
Charges →: Rioting

July 17, 2025: Charges pending

July 23, 2025: Charges dropped

Rioting: failure to disperse

July 17, 2025: Charges pending

Oct. 2, 2025: Convicted

Rioting: unlawful assembly

July 17, 2025: Charges pending

Sept. 17, 2025: Charges dropped

Traffic violation: obstructing a highway or public passage

July 17, 2025: Charges pending

Oct. 2, 2025: Acquitted

Obstruction: disorderly conduct

July 17, 2025: Charges pending

Oct. 2, 2025: Acquitted

Obstruction: obstructing an emergency responder

July 17, 2025: Charges pending

Oct. 2, 2025: Acquitted

Obstruction: resisting arrest

July 17, 2025: Charges pending

Sept. 17, 2025: Charges dropped
Detention date →: July 17, 2025
Release date →: July 18, 2025
Unnecessary use of force? →: No

Congressman accuses Fox of deceptively editing Trump’s Epstein remarks

Incident Details

Date of incident: July 17, 2025
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Targets: Fox News

Chilling Statement

Florida broadcast photographer attacked by restaurant employee

Incident Details

Date of incident: July 17, 2025
Location: Hialeah, Florida
Targets: Frank Debesa (WPLG)

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

Reporter attacked, microphone damaged by restaurant employee

Incident Details

Date of incident: July 17, 2025
Location: Hialeah, Florida
Targets: Jeff Weinsier (WPLG)

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

Equipment damaged →: Recording equipment, 1
Actor →: Private individual

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