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Press groups warn federal agents may have violated journalists’ First Amendment rights in LA
- Federal officers appear to have deliberately targeted journalists in Los Angeles while covering protests, according to press groups.
- At least four journalists were shot with non-lethal munitions or tear-gassed by police while reporting on the protests in Los Angeles from June 6-8.
- The Los Angeles Press Club documented over 20 instances of obstruction and attacks against members of the media during the protests.
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RCFP-led media coalition highlights attacks on press rights at LA protests
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and a coalition of 60 news and press freedom organizations are urging federal, state, and local officials to ensure that authorities responding to protests in Los Angeles are properly trained on journalists’ right to report on law enforcement activity. In a letter sent on Friday, the media coalition cites multiple reports of journalists being injured and detained while covering the Los Angeles pro…
NewsGuild condemns attacks on reporters covering ICE protests
LOS ANGELES—The NewsGuild-CWA is calling for investigations into officers they say have illegally targeted journalists with “less-lethal rounds and tear gas” amid ongoing protests in Los Angeles against federal immigration raids. The labor union, which represents 28,000 journalists and other workers, said Los Angeles police officers “have fired on local, national and foreign reporters” in what they say is a violation of California state law and…
We Must Stand Up for the Free Press—Now More Than Ever - Falls Church News
This week, a journalist in Los Angeles was shot with a projectile fired by police while covering a protest—clearly identifiable as press, simply doing their job. It’s the latest in a growing list of incidents that should alarm every one of us who believes in a free society. It’s no longer just hostile tweets or
Denver Gazette
union-bulletin.comLA law enforcement treatment of journalists during protests once again under scrutiny
LOS ANGELES — Abraham Márquez, a reporter with the nonprofit investigative news startup Southlander, was filming a tense standoff between Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies and immigrant rights protesters in Paramount on Saturday night when he saw a deputy aim…
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