{"id":21058,"date":"2019-10-18T01:36:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T08:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=21058"},"modified":"2019-10-18T01:45:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T08:45:55","slug":"street-trash-faux-liberal-bigots-attack-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/street-trash-faux-liberal-bigots-attack-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Trash & Faux Liberal Bigots Attack Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"Olympia, WA (10-17-19)–<\/strong>It has been open season on reporters (no thanks to Trump) for years now, even in America. Sadly, journalists are no longer safe (if they ever were) alone or unarmed. A bulwark of American freedom and democracy has been pronounced the “enemy” and is treated as such–even by such faux liberals as the Oly Food Coop bigots. Rather than embrace the truth, they’ve chosen to kill the messenger.\n\nPhysical Attack<\/strong>
-30 journalists have faced physical attacks in 2019
-5 journalists were killed in 2018
-46 journalists faced physical attacks in 2017
Since 2017, 55 reporters have been attacked while covering protests.\n\n\n
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August 13, 2018 Camera Attack<\/figcaption>\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nDemonstrators damage TV journalist\u2019s camera in Charlottesville<\/strong>\n\n\nGary Cooper, a journalist with North Carolina TV station WTVD, was filming a crowd of demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2018, when some of the demonstrators cut his camera’s audio cable.\n\nCooper and journalist DeJuan Hoggard were in Charlottesville to cover anti-fascist demonstrations marking the one-year anniversary of the murder of Heather Heyer, who was killed by a white nationalist at the “Unite the Right” rally in 2017.\n\nA group of demonstrators, apparently unhappy with being filmed, got into an altercation with Cooper and Hoggard, during which the demonstrators cut the audio cable connecting Cooper’s external microphone to his camera.\n\nHoggard later tweeted a photo of Cooper holding the broken camera, and Cooper tweeted that he had a spare cable. Hoggard also tweeted a video of an altercation that he had with demonstrators before the cable was cut.\n\n\n
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Oregonian reporter Eder Campuzano injured while documenting protest<\/figcaption>\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\nEder Campuzano, a reporter at The Oregonian, was hit in the head by a plastic water bottle while covering protests in Portland, Oregon, on August 4, 2018.\n\n\u201cMoments after I began live-streaming the police response to yet another face-off between right-wing and anti-fascist demonstrators, blood was dripping from my head onto one of my favorite shirts and I was being escorted to The Oregonian newsroom,\u201d Campuzano wrote in a first-person piece about the incident.\n\nTyler Dumont, a journalist at Fox 12 Oregon, captured a photo of Campuzano’s bleeding head and posted it on Twitter, where it spread quickly.\n\nProtesters smack away NBC News reporter Cal Perry\u2019s camera in Charlottesville<\/strong>\n\nOn August 11, 2018, NBC News reporter Cal Perry was covering an anti-racist demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia, when protesters grabbed his TV camera and pushed it away.\n\nAnti-fascist protesters gathered in Charlottesville to commemorate Heather Heyer, who was murdered during the far-right \u201cUnite the Right\u201d rally in Charlottesville the previous year.\n\nWhile covering the demonstration, Perry tweeted that a number of protesters seemed hostile toward him and other reporters.\n\nHe later tweeted a video of an altercation with a protester.\n\n\u201cFuck you, snitch ass news bitch,\u201d a man can be heard saying in the video footage. \u201cFuck you!\u201d The man then smacks the camera sideways.\n\nPortland Mercury reporter Kelly Kenoyer shoved while filming Patriot Prayer rally<\/strong>\n\n
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\nPortland Mercury reporter Kelly Kenoyer was shoved while covering a far right rally in Portland, Oregon, on June 3, 2018.\n\n\u201cIt was a scary experience\u2014the first violent protest I’ve covered, and I had a bit of that violence directed at me,\u201d she wrote in a piece for Portland Mercury.\n\nKenoyer told Freedom of the Press Foundation that she began covering the Patriot Prayer rally around 4 p.m., at which point there were around 20 people aligned with the far-right Patriot Prayer group and over 100 anti-fascist protesters present.\n\nWhile filming a verbal confrontation between a Patriot Prayer demonstrator and a counter-protester, she said, a Patriot Prayer protester tried to grab her phone and shoved her backwards.\n\nKenoyer was able to film part of the altercation and later posted the video on Twitter.\n\n\u201cAs [I filmed], the man (a masked up guy on the Patriot Prayer side), flipped me off, directing that hand towards the phone,\u201d Kenoyer said. \u201cThen he pushed his hand into my phone, shoving it into the side of my head\/face, and pushed me over.\u201d\n\nAfter being pushed, Kenoyer identified herself as a reporter, and a bystander approached to try to defuse the situation. Kenoyer said that the man who shoved her and another Patriot Prayer demonstrator then then began yelling at the bystander.\n\n\u201cThings escalated from there and I ended up getting shoved backwards \u2014 I think they shoved the bystander into me,\u201d she said. \u201cI stumbled backwards and a random counter-protester caught me. He apologized for touching me and said he wanted to make sure I didn\u2019t fall.\u201d\n\nKenoyer said she felt frazzled after the altercation and took a moment to gather herself back together before getting back to work.\n\nShe said that she does not think that anyone was specifically targeting reporters for harassment, but protesters on both sides objected to being filmed.\n\n“Neither side particularly wanted to be filmed,” she said. “Antifa activists also told me not to film, though they didn\u2019t physically assault me over it.\u201d\n\nKenoyer also noted that a different Patriot Prayer member filmed her and said, \u201cYou like that, bitch?!\u201d She clarified later that day to the woman that she was a reporter.\n\nLast year, Kenoyer was also singled out and threatened by right wingers on social media after writing for Eugene Weekly about the impacts of doxxing by the right on anti-fascist activists.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Jon Ziegler attacked by white nationalist protesters in Tennessee<\/strong><\/figcaption>\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJanuary 16, 2018
Independent journalist Jon Ziegler, who livestreams under the handle RebZ.tv, was reporting on a white nationalist rally in Shelbyville, Tennessee, on October 28, 2017, when one of the white nationalist protesters struck him with a shield.\n\nZiegler told the Freedom of the Press Foundation that the demonstration was divided into two sections \u2014 a white nationalist section and an anti-fascist section \u2014 which were each penned in by police barricades. Ziegler said that he interviewed protesters in both sections and was walking through the white nationalist area when he was suddenly confronted by a prominent leader in the National Socialist Movement, a white nationalist group.\n\nThe NSM leader told Ziegler that he was standing too close to the NSM\u2019s P.A. system and demanded that he leave. Ziegler said that a group of NSM members then surrounded him, threatened him and began pushing him around. He said that the NSM members were armed with shields \u2014 police had allowed them to carry shields because they were not considered offensive weapons \u2014 and one NSM member struck him with his shield.\n\n