“After waiting hours, the situation deteriorated quickly. The Los Angeles Police moved on horseback, attracts rubber bullets to the protesters and makes them advance in the hearts of the angels.”
While he covered anti-expressions in the American city, the Australian journalist of 9News, Lauren Tomasi, was attacked by a rubber bullet, led by a police member. The scene was immortalized by the chamber cameras, when the journalist had just finished a duplex, in which he evoked the use of rubber bullets.
The images, published on social networks by 9News, clearly show a police officer who addresses the journalist and his cameraman before shooting. The rubber ball reached the calf reporter. In the same sequence, you can listen to Lauren Tomasi shout in pain and grab his calf.
“You just shoot the journalist, curse!”, We can also listen. “I’m fine, I’m fine,” said the journalist.
“Lauren and her cameraman are healthy and healthy”
According to the Australian television channel, Lauren Tomasi “was attacked while making a live report near the first line of the demonstrations surrounding the city of the city’s metropolitan city.”
“Lauren and his cameraman are healthy and healthy and will continue their essential coverage work of these events,” added the chain, emphasizing that “this incident brutally remembers the inherent dangers that journalists can face when they cover demonstrations in the front line and highlight the importance of their role in the provision of vital information.”
According to the France-Presse agency, the case of Lauren Tomasi would not be an isolated case. Dozens of protesters blocked on Sunday, June 8 in the afternoon a highway from the Megapol Californian for more than an hour, in a face -to -face time of the police, which made some arrests and used tear gas, even against journalists, as the AFP operators pointed out.
A third day of clashes
Three days have passed since the Police and the protesters against Donald Trump’s migration policy compete in Los Angeles. Los Angeles police said the police arrested at least 56 people in two days, and that three of its members were slightly injured.
In response, Donald Trump deployed 2,000 members of the National Guard to try to contain these demonstrations, multiplying attacks against California Democratic authorities, accused of incompetence.
These clashes began on Friday in this city where a large Hispanic population resides, residents who try to intervene in front of the muscle arrests of immigrants led by the Federal Immigration Police (ICE).
Source: BFM TV
