Incident details
- Date of incident
- July 10, 2025
- Location
- Camarillo, California
- Assailant
- Law enforcement
- Was the journalist targeted?
- Unknown
Assault
Leo Stallworth reporting live for KABC-TV following an immigration raid in Camarillo, California, on July 10, 2025. The photojournalist with him was shot twice with crowd-control munitions amid a standoff between demonstrators and federal officers.
A photographer with Los Angeles-based broadcaster KABC-TV was struck with multiple crowd-control munitions by federal agents while covering an anti-deportation protest near Camarillo, California, on July 10, 2025.
Protests in California began in early June in response to federal raids in and around workplaces and areas where immigrant day laborers gathered, amid the Trump administration’s larger immigration crackdown. After demonstrators clashed with law enforcement officers and federal agents in Los Angeles, President Donald Trump called in the California National Guard and then the U.S. Marines over the objections of California Gov. Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass.
KABC-TV reported that federal agents conducted an immigration raid on a cannabis farm near Camarillo in Southern California, which was met with demonstrations.
The situation developed into a tense standoff between protesters, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and National Guard members. At one point, the agents threw smoke canisters and stun grenades toward the crowd and began shooting crowd-control munitions at the demonstrators.
KABC-TV reporter Leo Stallworth said he and his photographer were reporting on the demonstration when his photographer was hit twice by federal agents.
“He’s got blood on one of his arms,” Stallworth said in his live report. He did not identify the photographer by name.
“We just took off running with the entire crowd. It was absolutely chaotic,” Stallworth added.
Neither Stallworth nor KABC-TV replied to requests for comment. ICE also did not respond as of press time.
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