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'I'm getting shot!': Journalists under attack from police and protesters across US

The arrest and handcuffing of a black CNN journalist has drawn the widest coverage.

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JOURNALISTS COVERING NATIONWIDE protests over the death of a black man at police hands in Minneapolis have found themselves under attack, by police and at times by protesters.

The arrest and handcuffing Friday of a black CNN journalist by police in Minneapolis — even as he was reporting live on camera following the death of George Floyd — may have drawn the widest coverage.

The journalist, Omar Jimenez, was released an hour later after the Minnesota governor personally intervened.

But there have been several other serious incidents across the country, notably in Louisville, Kentucky, where a riot-squad policeman fired what appeared to be pepper-spray pellets at a local TV crew filming the scene.

“I’m getting shot!” Kaitlin Rust, a reporter with local TV channel WAVE-3, cried out on camera.

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And in Minneapolis, freelance journalist Linda Tirado was struck in the left eye by a rubber bullet fired by police, and said later on Twitter that she had permanently lost vision in that eye.

“Authorities in cities across the US need to instruct police not to target journalists and ensure they can report safely on the protests without fear of injury or retaliation,” said a statement from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

Members of the media have also come under attack by protesters. In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, photographer Ian Smith said he was subjected to a beating until other demonstrators came to his defence.

In Atlanta, the headquarters of news network CNN was attacked Friday by several dozen people. Someone in the crowd lobbed a flash grenade into the building’s lobby as police stood guard there.

Yesterday morning, a Fox News journalist who was reporting from a position in front of the White House was pummeled and chased by demonstrators until police intervened.

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“If you are a protester, do what you feel is right, but don’t stop us from doing what we know is the job we have to do for the public. Please do not target, intimidate, humiliate or block our efforts,” said a statement from the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ).

President Donald Trump has frequently targeted the news media as a source of what he calls “fake news,” claiming without evidence that the media invent stories intended to harm him.

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Following the attack on the CNN building in Atlanta, the president retweeted a supporter’s post that seemed to gloat about the incident: “In an ironic twist of fate, CNN HQ is being attacked by the very riots they promoted as noble & just. Oops.”

He has regularly denounced the press as “enemies of the people,” and has often singled out CNN as a favorite target.

Media critics and commentators say such language can have the effect, at least among fringe elements, of encouraging violence against journalists.

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    Mute thenightmancometh
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    Sep 30th 2014, 3:46 PM

    Moorooned

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    Mute Chris Kirk
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    Sep 30th 2014, 5:33 PM

    No bull there, it was the magic mushrooms that done it..!!

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    Mute Daiga Klindzane
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    Oct 1st 2014, 4:14 PM

    if u read it all than u seen that it sed two months old calf and the cow was missing for two months…cows expecting for 9 months just like humans…so think agen about ur magic mushrooom!!

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    Mute Eileen Charters
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    Sep 30th 2014, 3:47 PM

    Ah poor moo cow. The udders didn’t like her!!!

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    Mute Dirk Diggler
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    Sep 30th 2014, 3:46 PM

    I’m delighted she was rescued the steaks were high.

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    Mute Dirk Diggler
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    Sep 30th 2014, 6:10 PM

    The weathers nice now but in another few weeks she would have been friesian.

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    Mute Máirtín
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    Sep 30th 2014, 3:33 PM

    Amoozing!…… I’ll grab my coat.

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    Mute Gravel Pitt
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    Sep 30th 2014, 3:42 PM

    Baaaaaah

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    Mute Stephen Ring
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    Sep 30th 2014, 3:56 PM

    I’d say the farmer creamed himself when he found her

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    Mute michael collins
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    Sep 30th 2014, 4:20 PM

    Milking this story…..only been told calf of it …..

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    Mute Shaunagh Hickey
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    Sep 30th 2014, 3:42 PM

    So the others wanted rid of her… Bunch of cows!!

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    Mute Marguerite Lynch
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    Sep 30th 2014, 8:12 PM

    thats great, they should have her on the late late.

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    Mute Rosanne Donovan
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    Sep 30th 2014, 8:35 PM

    Great idea !!! Bet she would make more sense that the 2 legged mad dog that was on it last week!

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    Mute Astrid Fitzpatrick
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    Sep 30th 2014, 3:41 PM

    lucky cow

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    Mute Gavin Duff
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    Sep 30th 2014, 6:03 PM

    “She was pushed into the lake by other cows while they were drinking.” A typical student night out then really…

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    Mute colin power
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    Sep 30th 2014, 3:51 PM

    What a mooving story… Sorry.. Couldn’t resist

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    Mute Ablitive
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    Sep 30th 2014, 4:07 PM

    Moderators, can you please give this thread the hoof.

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    Mute Gary Guilfoyle
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    Sep 30th 2014, 4:09 PM

    Well I’ll beef hooked

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    Mute Craig Colley
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    Sep 30th 2014, 5:07 PM

    Who are these people that don’t turn their camera’s sideways!

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    Mute Silver Fox
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    Sep 30th 2014, 4:17 PM

    Celebrity survivor moooove over. Survivor – Meath style is coming.

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    Mute Darren Mullen
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    Sep 30th 2014, 4:07 PM

    Wish some of the cattle in the dail would go missing.

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    Mute Powerful Sayings
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    Sep 30th 2014, 6:37 PM

    I don’t think there is cattle in the dail.

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    Mute Ciarán O'Connell
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    Oct 1st 2014, 2:05 AM

    the island the cow is on is the site of an old crannog. its fairly possible she walked over. In summer months you can walk to the island in waders

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    Mute Rosanne Donovan
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    Sep 30th 2014, 8:30 PM

    What a load of bullocks !!!

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    Mute Paul Radford
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    Sep 30th 2014, 6:40 PM

    Great story but did anyone notice that farmer thick nor his young companion were not wearing life jackets while out on a lake.
    We wonder how these accidents happen when hear of lives lost on small lake to drowning.

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    Mute Stephen Earle
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    Sep 30th 2014, 4:35 PM

    Load of bull ?

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    Mute Ollie
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    Oct 1st 2014, 12:33 AM

    Awh I’m glad they found her and her baby :-)

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    Mute Colin C
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    Sep 30th 2014, 4:19 PM

    Why are cattle being allowed access to a lake! With all the talk of septic tank inspections to protect groundwater, would it not make sense to keep cattle covered in faeces from wading in a lake! The farmer should be prosecuted and forced to protect the lake.

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    Mute Colin C
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    Sep 30th 2014, 4:34 PM

    Looks like a lot of people have developed a taste for e coli.

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    Mute Brian Ó Dálaigh
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    Sep 30th 2014, 4:46 PM

    Well you’re obviously not from the country and know nothing about farming or the countryside in general. It’s a very rare thing that cattle out in fields are covered in faeces. Cattle usually only get dirty when they are kept indoors during the winter or when they are corralled for an extended period of time in yards due to being medicated, awaiting milking, etc. Anyway, lots of other animals urinate and defecate into rivers and lakes, including badgers, foxes, rabbits, hares, fish, and pretty much every other animal we have in this country. On top of that, no one in Ireland uses water directly from a river or lake for any domestic use. It’s always treated unless you have your own well, in which case the water has been a long time removed from rivers and lakes and cleansed naturally by the surrounding rock. Oh, and maybe we can let the cows do what’s natural until we humans stop pumping billions of gallons of our own excrement and waste into our own water supplies.

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    Mute Eileen Charters
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    Sep 30th 2014, 5:10 PM

    Well said Brian…

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    Mute Colin C
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    Sep 30th 2014, 5:21 PM

    I am 50 yards from a herd of cattle right now. They in turn are fenced off from a stream 100 yards in the other direction. Thanks for the lecture though.

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    Mute Peter M Buchanan
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    Sep 30th 2014, 5:23 PM

    You, sir, are a fool

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    Mute Colin C
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    Sep 30th 2014, 5:24 PM

    Btw, aside from the faecal contamination of groundwater, which in no way compares with natural levels, there is the additional risk of spreading bovine TB by allowing cattle access to grounwater in this manner. Even farmers organisations acknowledge the need to keep cattle out of our waterways. The debate was whether 10m was sufficient or over the top.

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    Mute Startled Sapien
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    Sep 30th 2014, 5:56 PM

    Lake water is surface water Colin C.

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    Mute Ted Crilly
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    Sep 30th 2014, 5:34 PM

    Hoof Hearted!

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    Mute galway2007
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    Sep 30th 2014, 4:28 PM

    Mad cow is still about so

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    Mute Edmond O'Donovan
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    Oct 1st 2014, 1:45 PM

    The island on Lough Breakey is a Crannog that has now become overgrown with trees. The cow is likely to have waded out onto the ‘island’ to calf, cows are naturally forest animals and instinctively seek the cover of woodland if available, particularly when calving.
    As an aside, cows do not as a general rule push other cows into lakes, that’s more of a human trait!

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    Mute Jim bean
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    Sep 30th 2014, 4:01 PM

    The young male cow went in search of a female as they are highly sexual creatures at this time of season,as you can see his skin is brown from the green grass he eats..
    David Attenborough will be back in 5..

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    Mute Brian Ó Dálaigh
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    Sep 30th 2014, 5:21 PM

    Male cow? It’s not, by any chance, looking for a female bull? Let’s just say, if you ever decide to milk a cow, let me know. I’ll bring a chair, some popcorn and something to calm me down after the inevitable bout of side-splitting laughter. Oh, and I’ll have the ambulance on speed dial for you…

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    Mute Eileen Charters
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    Sep 30th 2014, 5:54 PM

    I’ll go along for the craic too Brian!!
    No popcorn for me though. Gets caught in me throat ..

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    Mute Peter Mccabe
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    Oct 9th 2014, 5:03 PM

    Congratulations to my Grand daughter Niamh Carolan, Lossett for starting all the story of the cow and calf on Breakey Lake as I always called it when fishing there rather than Lough Breakey. That was in the good old days of the 1950′s. I did notice that she got very little comments or good wishes for her efforts. She posted the original video after using her Iphone when visiting the shore of the lake. Well done to her Dad Kevin who also.appears in the video link. You became famous overnight Niamh so well done from Grandad Peter

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    Mute Ciaran Rogan
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    Oct 1st 2014, 5:26 AM

    (insert cow pun here)

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    Mute Gavin Duff
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    Sep 30th 2014, 6:05 PM

    “She was pushed into the lake by other cows when they were drinking.” A typical student night out really…

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    Mute PAUL NICHOLSON
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    Oct 1st 2014, 8:42 AM

    Was Wilson ok.

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    Mute jack frost
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    Sep 30th 2014, 5:01 PM

    Bet ya enda put the cow there

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    Mute Frankie Pyburn
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    Oct 1st 2014, 10:13 AM

    I don’t think the farmer put a lot of effort into the search at any time the animal was after all able to walk onto the island due to very dry summer anyway he had free grazeing

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    Mute Anita Aspill Davidson
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    Oct 1st 2014, 11:03 AM

    Don’t bother watching the video. 3min 47 seconds of boring.

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