9News US Correspondent Lauren Tomasi hit by rubber bullet during Los Angeles protests
9News US Correspondent Lauren Tomasi hit by rubber bullet during Los Angeles protests
A police officer was seen aiming his gun and firing at 9News' Lauren Tomasi as she reported from the front...
YouTube video of news report that starts with the footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t42UBBolOvo
Always pleasant to see a spicy Robert Evans tweet in the wild.
Jesus what a piece of shit
Bro just flat out pops her one for gigs.
Yeah. Listening to body cam audio from BLM, pigs are laughing about which media company's reporters they hope they hit. They see the Media jacket and they don't blink – a camera is a camera.
And, in case it needs to be plainly stated, this is a form of terror against press.
Something like 9 reporters have been shot with rubber bullets.
After watching this video, it doesn't feel like they're accidents.
It's weird anyone is acting like this wasn't intentional. It's on film.
A single shot, pointed directly at the reporter. What a terrible accident.
Shooting unarmed(!) journalists is a big no no no.
There were no consequences for the cops that did it during the 2020 protests, so why would this time be different?
One journalist even died from her injuries and nobody even got named for that one.
The cops are hopeful that they won't have to go another 5 years without regularly shooting journalists and women in the back for fun.
Hit by the rubber bullets. All on their own it seems from that title
Agreed. What a weird way to phrase “Member of Press Deliberately Shot by Stasi for Lol’s”.
Media raising the passive voice to an art form.
So blatant that an aussie satire article called that out.
Ugh.
"hit by rubber bullet"
You mean deliberately aimed at while reporting and not causing a disturbance of any kind and then fucking shot at, right? You mean intentionally targeted and shot at for no reason, right? You mean assaulted because police are fascist pigs, right?
The cop did that because he knows there is no accountability for doing so. He thought it'd be cool, so he did it.
He thought it’d be cool, so he did it.
Don't get me wrong, they do think it's funny and laugh about it, but this is not just a prank or joke. It's intentionally terrorising people who bring cameras to expose their actions. We saw the same targeting of the press during BLM.
Oh no no no, they were *checks original copy of the article* "caught in the crossfire".
"This incident serves as a stark reminder of the inherent dangers journalists can face while reporting from the frontlines of protests, underscoring the importance of their role in providing vital information."
Man, why don’t you just thank the friggin’ cop.
This is too short of a gif. The longer video shows true intent.
Yeah, when I posted this the extended longer video appeared at the top of the page on load. They've since added more videos, so now the footage of the reporter being shot with a rubber bullet is video 3 (or there's just the YouTube link in the post body which is better quality anyway).
No worries, at this point most of us who care have seen it dozens of times already. But it is just so weird that they do that stuff after the fact. I mean, unless it's an updated, live thing. I get that, but why split a video into a bunch of short gifs? Is there a modern psych thing that says it's easier to take in or something?
Journalist AND foreign?
Surprised that's not worth 2 shots at least!
/s just in case it wasn't obvious...