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Independent journalist’s equipment searched while reporting on Chicago protest

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 15, 2020
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Targets: Raven Geary (Independent)

Equipment searched or seized →: Equipment bag, 1
Status of equipment →: Searched without seizure
Search warrant obtained →: No

Police officers rushed, shoved journalist covering Portland protests

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 15, 2020
Location: Portland, Oregon
Targets: Jacob Prescott (Independent)

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

Police strike journalist with baton at Portland protest

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 14, 2020
Location: Portland, Oregon
Targets: Sean Bascom (Freelance)

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

Police grabs at journalist’s phone during Portland protest

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 14, 2020
Location: Portland, Oregon
Targets: Garrison Davis (Freelance)

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

Police shove journalist during Portland protest

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 14, 2020
Location: Portland, Oregon
Targets: Brian Conley (Independent)

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

Journalist arrested, cameras seized while covering protests in Washington, D.C.

Incident Details

Updated on: April 14, 2021
Date of incident: August 13, 2020
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Case number: 1:21-cv-00116
Targets: Kian Kelley-Chung (Freelance)
Case status: Settled
Type of case: Civil

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

Aug. 14, 2020: Charges pending

Aug. 14, 2020: Charges dropped
Release date →: August 14, 2020
Unnecessary use of force? →: No

Equipment searched or seized →: Camera, 2

Cellphone, 1
Status of equipment →: Returned in full
Search warrant obtained →: No

Journalist detained while covering DC protests

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 13, 2020
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Targets: Andrew Jasiura (Freelance)

Arrest status →: Detained and released without being processed
Arresting authority →: Metropolitan Police Department
Unnecessary use of force? →: No

Memphis newspaper subpoenaed for photos, videos from July protest

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 13, 2020
Location: Memphis, Tennessee
Targets: The Commercial Appeal

Legal orders →: subpoena for communications or work product

Aug. 13, 2020: Pending

Aug. 19, 2020: Objected to

Aug. 20, 2020: Dropped
Legal order target →: Institution
Legal order venue →: State

Independent photojournalist says was pushed to the ground by Portland police

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 11, 2020
Location: Portland, Oregon
Targets: Maranie Staab (Freelance)

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

Washington Post journalist chased by looters in Chicago

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 10, 2020
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Targets: Mark Guarino (The Washington Post)

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

Broadcast cameraman robbed at gunpoint in Berkeley

Incident Details

Updated on: October 26, 2020
Date of incident: August 10, 2020
Location: Berkeley, California
Targets: Unidentified photojournalist 7

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

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

Journalist arrested while covering North Carolina protest

Incident Details

Updated on: September 9, 2021
Date of incident: August 9, 2020
Location: Asheville, North Carolina
Targets: Veronica Coit (The Asheville Blade)

Arrest status →: Arrested and released
Arresting authority →: Asheville Police Department
Charges →: Traffic violation: impeding the flow of traffic with a vehicle

Aug. 9, 2020: Charges pending

Sept. 9, 2021: Charges dropped

Rioting: failure to disperse on command

Aug. 9, 2020: Charges pending

Sept. 9, 2021: Charges dropped
Unnecessary use of force? →: Yes

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

Independent filmmaker pepper sprayed while covering Ferguson protest

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 9, 2020
Location: Ferguson, Missouri
Targets: Chris Phillips (Freelance)

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

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

Independent videographer says he was shoved, shot in finger by law enforcement while covering Portland protest

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 9, 2020
Location: Portland, Oregon
Targets: Nicholas Lee (Freelance)

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

Photojournalist’s camera slapped away, blocked at rally against defunding Seattle Police Department

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 9, 2020
Location: Seattle, Washington
Targets: Noah Riffe (Anadolu Agency [Turkey])

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

Independent journalist said she was hit with projectile, shoved while reporting on Portland protest

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 9, 2020
Location: Portland, Oregon
Targets: Teebs Auberdine (Freelance)

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

Journalist’s arm fractured by crowd-control munitions during a Portland protest

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 9, 2020
Location: Portland, Oregon
Targets: Seth Dunlap (Independent)

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

Journalist struck with baton by sheriff’s deputies at Portland, Oregon, protest

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 9, 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

Photographer slammed to the ground, arrested by Portland police

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 8, 2020
Location: Portland, Oregon
Targets: Joseph Rushmore (Freelance)

Arrest status →: Arrested and released
Arresting authority →: Portland Police Bureau
Charges →: Obstruction: disorderly conduct in the second degree

Aug. 8, 2020: Charges pending

Aug. 31, 2020: Charges dropped

Obstruction: interfering with a police officer

Aug. 8, 2020: Charges pending

Aug. 31, 2020: Charges dropped
Unnecessary use of force? →: Yes

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

Equipment searched or seized →: Protective equipment, 1

Equipment bag, 1

Camera, 2

Cellphone, 1
Status of equipment →: Returned in full
Search warrant obtained →: No

Photojournalist hit with flash-bang grenade, pushed into bush at Portland protest

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 8, 2020
Location: Portland, Oregon
Targets: Nathan Howard (The Associated Press)

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

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