TV news crews are increasingly threatened with violence on the job
7/12/21
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from The Washington Post,
7/9/21:
DEVELOPING In the 200-300 block of Noria for a barricaded man. He fired a handgun at our photographer, me and his own family then took off on a bike and entered another home. Authorities had been here overnight for a suspicious fire #KSATnews pic.twitter.com/eqc0fcKRwX
— Dillon Collier (@dilloncollier) July 5, 2021
The unprovoked attack was extreme but hardly isolated. In recent months, local TV news crews have faced verbal and physical abuse while on the job. A few reporters have been injured. Some have been robbed or had their equipment damaged.
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