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Missouri reporter assaulted at his home after reporting on sexual misconduct allegations

Incident Details

Updated on: November 8, 2018
Date of incident: September 11, 2017
Location: Joplin, Missouri
Targets: Randy Turner (The Turner Report)

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

University of Texas journalist attacked at immigrant rights protest

Incident Details

Updated on: August 2, 2018
Date of incident: September 1, 2017
Location: Austin, Texas
Targets: Chase Karacostas (The [University of Texas at Austin] Daily Texan)

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

Reporter Mike Kessler's camera is smashed in Berkeley

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 27, 2017
Location: Berkeley, California
Targets: Mike Kessler (Freelance)

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

Equipment broken →: Camera, 1

Cellphone, 1
Actor →: Private individual

Documentary production assistant has phone knocked out of hands by protesters

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 27, 2017
Location: Berkeley, California
Targets: Nathan Hope (Independent)

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

KTVU reporter assaulted while covering protest in Berkeley

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 27, 2017
Location: Berkeley, California
Targets: Leigh Martinez (KTVU)

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

Protesters in Berkeley steal local TV reporter's phone and dunk it in water

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 27, 2017
Location: Berkeley, California
Targets: Thom Jensen (KNTV)

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

Equipment broken →: Cellphone, 1
Actor →: Private individual

Independent journalist Dave Minsky beaten and attacked with pipe by protesters in Berkeley

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 27, 2017
Location: Berkeley, California
Targets: Dave Minsky (Independent)

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

Equipment broken →: Camera lens, 1

Cellphone, 2

Camera, 1

Work product, 1
Actor →: Private individual

Protesters attack independent livestreamer in San Francisco, steal his phone

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 26, 2017
Location: San Francisco, California
Targets: Nathan Stolpman (Independent)

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

Equipment broken →: Cellphone, 1
Actor →: Private individual

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