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Reporter assaulted during Miami anti-mask mandate protest

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 18, 2021
Location: Miami, Florida
Targets: Danny Rivero (WLRN-FM)

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

Correspondent threatened, kicked during anti-vaccine protest at LA’s City Hall

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 14, 2021
Location: Los Angeles, California
Targets: Frank Stoltze (KPCC-FM/LAist)

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

Journalist assaulted twice during anti-vaccine rally in LA

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 14, 2021
Location: Los Angeles, California
Targets: Tina-Desiree Berg (Status Coup)

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

Video journalist attacked, sprayed with chemical irritant while covering anti-vaccine rally in LA

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 14, 2021
Location: Los Angeles, California
Targets: Jake Lee Green (News2Share)

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

Equipment damaged →: Camera, 1

Recording equipment, 1
Actor →: Private individual

Subpoena for podcast host testimony in murder case quashed

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 10, 2021
Location: San Luis Obispo County, California
Targets: Chris Lambert (Freelance)

Legal orders →: subpoena for testimony about confidential source

Aug. 10, 2021: Pending

Aug. 23, 2021: Objected to

Sept. 8, 2021: Quashed

subpoena for communications or work product

Aug. 10, 2021: Pending

Aug. 23, 2021: Objected to

Sept. 8, 2021: Quashed
Legal order target →: Journalist
Legal order venue →: State

Photojournalist aimed at with realistic AR-15 style airsoft gun in Portland

Incident Details

Updated on: September 23, 2021
Date of incident: August 8, 2021
Location: Portland, Oregon
Targets: Justin Yau (Freelance)

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

City of Jackson, Mississippi, ordered to pay legal fees to broadcast station for violating public records law

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 6, 2021
Location: Jackson, Mississippi
Targets: WLBT

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Journalist at advocacy news organization dragged from press conference

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 5, 2021
Location: Hialeah Gardens, Florida
Targets: Grant Stern (Occupy Democrats)

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

Government agency or public official involved →: Federal government: Legislature

State government: Governor
Type of denial →: Government event

Equipment damaged →: Cellphone, 1
Actor →: Law enforcement

Senior reporter ordered to testify in assault trial connected to BLM protest

Incident Details

Updated on: October 18, 2021
Date of incident: August 5, 2021
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Targets: Dylan Brogan (Isthmus)

Legal orders →: subpoena for other testimony

Aug. 5, 2021: Pending

Sept. 7, 2021: Objected to

Sept. 9, 2021: Upheld

Oct. 15, 2021: Objected to

Oct. 18, 2021: Carried out
Legal order target →: Journalist
Legal order venue →: State

Broadcast reporter ordered to testify in assault trial connected to BLM protest

Incident Details

Updated on: October 18, 2021
Date of incident: August 5, 2021
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Targets: Lance Veeser (WKOW)

Legal orders →: subpoena for other testimony

Aug. 5, 2021: Pending

Sept. 7, 2021: Objected to

Sept. 9, 2021: Upheld

Oct. 18, 2021: Quashed
Legal order target →: Journalist
Legal order venue →: State

Radio reporter ordered to testify in assault trial connected to BLM protest

Incident Details

Updated on: October 18, 2021
Date of incident: August 5, 2021
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Targets: Chali Pittman (WORT-FM)

Legal orders →: subpoena for other testimony

Aug. 5, 2021: Pending

Sept. 7, 2021: Objected to

Sept. 9, 2021: Upheld

Oct. 15, 2021: Objected to

Oct. 18, 2021: Carried out
Legal order target →: Journalist
Legal order venue →: State

Parent accosts Michigan journalist after school board meeting

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 2, 2021
Location: Mount Pleasant, Michigan
Targets: Eric Baerren (Mount Pleasant Morning Sun)

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

Independent videographer punched while covering anti-vaccine protest in LA

Incident Details

Updated on: February 14, 2022
Date of incident: July 29, 2021
Location: Los Angeles, California
Targets: Vishal Singh (Independent)

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

Cameraman and journalist for Polish TV station chased from DC’s Lafayette park during protest for Cuba

Incident Details

Date of incident: July 26, 2021
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Targets: Marcin Wyszogrodzki (TVN Discovery)

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

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

Journalists for Polish news station were assaulted, chased out of DC’s Lafayette Square park during Cuba protest

Incident Details

Date of incident: July 26, 2021
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Targets: Marcin Wrona (TVN Discovery)

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

Discovery Channel subpoenaed for documentary footage in criminal case

Incident Details

Date of incident: July 26, 2021
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Targets: Discovery Inc.

Legal orders →: subpoena for communications or work product

July 26, 2021: Pending

July 27, 2021: Objected to

June 27, 2022: Quashed
Legal order target →: Institution
Legal order venue →: State

Independent journalist’s phone knocked from hands during ‘We Are Israel’ rally

Incident Details

Date of incident: July 25, 2021
Location: El Cajon, California
Targets: Tina-Desiree Berg (Independent)

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

Independent videographer’s phone knocked from hands during ‘We Are Israel’ rally

Incident Details

Date of incident: July 25, 2021
Location: El Cajon, California
Targets: Vishal Singh (Independent)

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

Documentarian pushed, sprayed with chemical irritant while covering LA anti-mask protest

Incident Details

Date of incident: July 22, 2021
Location: Los Angeles, California
Targets: Rocky Romano (Independent)

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

Colorado Politics reporter assaulted by member of the public in Denver Capitol newsroom

Incident Details

Date of incident: July 20, 2021
Location: Denver, Colorado
Targets: Pat Poblete (Colorado Politics)

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

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