One CNN correspondent was arrested on live television while a photographer has been permanently blinded by a rubber bullet.
A journalist is seen bleeding after police started firing tear gas and rubber bullets in Minneapolis on Saturday.
Protests broke out in Minneapolis, then spread around the country, after George Floyd died Monday when a police officer knelt on his neck. Floyd's pleas for his life, saying “I can’t breathe,” in an event that was captured on video echoed theand brought renewed attention on the violence people of color face from police.
“Targeted attacks on journalists, media crews, and news organizations covering the demonstrations show a complete disregard for their critical role in documenting issues of public interest and are an unacceptable attempt to intimidate them,” said Carlos Martínez de la Serna of the Committee to Protect Journalists said in a
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