Dozens Of Journalists Targeted, Shot, Detained While Covering LA Protests, Press Org Says

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Huff Post

Jun 10, 2025, 06:39 PM EDT


Shocking video and photos taken amid the ongoing immigration protests in Los Angeles show journalists and news crews being shot, detained and forced off public property by law enforcement, raising concerns of excessive force and First Amendment rights violations.

There have been more than 30 incidents of police violence against journalists as of Tuesday, including 20 injuries, at least five of which required emergency room or urgent care visits, said Adam Rose, the press rights chair with the Los Angeles Press Club, which released a statement Monday urging an end to the targeting of journalists whose work is constitutionally protected.

The list of injuries includes a freelance photojournalist requiring emergency surgery Sunday night after being shot in the leg with a three-inch piece of plastic that he believes was designed to be shot and explode above a crowd.


This is the plastic projectile that news photographer Nick Stern said a surgeon removed from his leg on Sunday.Nick Stern

Graphic photos shared with HuffPost show a gaping wound in Nick Stern’s right thigh that he said has left him unable to walk or move without assistance. “Why this device was shot at human, kind of, waist high level, I do not know. The people around me at that time was doing nothing more than waving Mexican flags,” he told HuffPost.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/journalists-shot-detained-covering-la-immigration-protests_n_68482fd5e4b0c1bc4e818847

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When things like this happen, the default response from the M$M should NOT be "ButBiden". They are as much a contributor to this as the braindead zombie MAGats (and I am not including the indies who are out there but am looking at the ones like CNN, whose reporters and photogs, per an article I saw, got rounded up today).

[Aussie105]

1. Repression of the media by violent means is a clear sign of a dictatorial repressive regime.

Something Trump has learnt from Russia and North Korea.

The average US citizen can no longer trust this administration or those willing to carry out the orders that flow from it.
And it doesn't matter who you voted for.

[Marthe48]

2. Journalists are the target when truth is you enemy

seen on facebook today

[slightlv]

3. I hate to say this, because I think this is abhorrent,

but the media (of all stripes) did it to themselves. When you sell out and prostrate yourself to pure evil, you can't be surprised when evil is visited upon you.

[0rganism]

8. They did it to all of us, really; their special flavor of ruin seems a curious subset of what they've done to America...

...and the whole world to some extent. Tinged with awful-yet-poetic strains of a cruel karmic irony, braided with the TBD fate of journalism itself, this scenario has become an extremely educational chapter in the study of self-destructive democracies. I reserve some hope that the survivors can make use of such knowledge when they rebuild.

[IronLionZion]

4. When they view journalists as dangerous

it's because they feel showing people the truth is dangerous. Photos, video, and reporting are dangerous weapons.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

There is a reason the 1st amendment was entered into the constitution first. It's not for Republicans to ignore it just like they do with many others including the well regulated militia part of the 2nd amendment. Who is regulating this militia?

[usonian]

5. Just as Apple can log you in via FaceID while you are wearing a mask, the illegally masked thugs can be identified, IMO.

That's why they want no photos.

[Bayard]

6. Lawsuits to follow

I really hope the settlements/awards come out of trump's hide, not the federal budget.

[Iamscrewed]

7. Lugenpresse

Sound familiar yet?

[BigmanPigman]

9. A CNN reporter "detained" and it was finally a CNN

report that I actually listened to. I've been avoiding CNN and all news shows and have been following what is going on on YouTube and I really like Adam Mockler and Harry Sisson.

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[Hope22]

10. When will the Republicans wake up and understand

That they are responsible for this madness. They could stop it at any moment but the don’t. It’s fine with them if people get shot for no good reason but they….are afraid for themselves. Not fit to lead!! Zero honor!