{"id":3562,"date":"2020-10-04T13:56:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T13:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3562"},"modified":"2020-10-04T13:56:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T13:56:49","slug":"unlike-anything-weve-seen-in-modern-history-attacks-against-journalists-soar-during-black-lives-matter-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3562","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Unlike anything we\u2019ve seen in modern history\u2019: Attacks against journalists soar during Black Lives Matter protests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;At least 50 journalists in the US have been arrested during&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/black-lives-matter\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Black Lives Matter<\/a>&nbsp;demonstrations across the US, while dozens of others have also been injured by rubber bullets, pepper spray and tear gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US Press Freedom Tracker has collected nearly 500 incidents from 382 reports, from the unrest in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/minneapolis\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minneapolis<\/a>&nbsp;in the wake of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/george-floyd\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Floyd<\/a>\u2018s killing by police in late May, to demonstrations in more than 70 cities across 35 states since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least 46 journalists were arrested between the end of May and the beginning of June, according to data collected by the organisation. Dozens of others reported injuries from law enforcement, firing \u201cless lethal\u201d projectiles, tear gas canisters and other weapons into crowds or directly at reporters during demonstrations, even when they had identified themselves and shown credentials, the organisation reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two reporters have suffered permanent eye injuries.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/unlike-anything-ve-seen-modern-100103921.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/unlike-anything-ve-seen-modern-100103921.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;At least 50 journalists in the US have been arrested during Black Lives Matter demonstrations across the US, while dozens of others have also been injured by rubber bullets, pepper spray and tear gas.<\/p>\n<p>The US Press Freedom Tracker has collected nearly 500 incidents from 382 reports, from the unrest in Minneapolis in the wake of George Floyd\u2018s killing by police in late May, to demonstrations in more than 70 cities across 35 states since.<\/p>\n<p>At least 46 journalists were arrested between the end of May and the beginning of June, according to data collected by the organisation. Dozens of others reported injuries from law enforcement, firing \u201cless lethal\u201d projectiles, tear gas canisters and other weapons into crowds or directly at reporters during demonstrations, even when they had identified themselves and shown credentials, the organisation reports.<\/p>\n<p>Two reporters have suffered permanent eye injuries.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[869,513,285,362],"class_list":["post-3562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-journalists","tag-police","tag-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3563,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions\/3563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}