Posted on 06/01/2020 4:34:55 PM PDT by simpson96
On Friday night, photojournalist Linda Tirado was shot in the eye by a rubber bullet while covering an anti-police brutality protest in Minneapolis — one of more than two dozen incidents of journalists experiencing violence while covering the recent demonstrations.
Tirado says she’s permanently blind in her left eye. (She is thankful she uses her right eye to take photos, so the injury is not career-ending.)
Linda Tirado @KillerMartinis May 30
an update: I am permanently blind in my left eye, and the docs absolutely refuse to let me go back to work for they say six weeks. I’m definitely not allowed to be near smoke or gas.
Usually if I had to stay home I’d spend a lot of time amplifying folk but reading hurts today
The Minneapolis Police Department and Mayor Jacob Frey’s office didn’t respond to requests for comment about Tirado’s injury.
Across the country journalists have been targeted by police, facing arrest, detention, and violence, including being pepper sprayed and shot by rubber bullets.
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
Her next column will be “Being One-eyed In A Two-Eyed Country”.
Lol, I’d prefer Trump tell the Secret Service to lock the doors and then have him whip out a slingshot with a bag of marbles.
Across the country journalists have been targeted by police, facing arrest, detention, and violence, including being pepper sprayed and shot by rubber bullets.
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Best news I’ve read today! It would not surprise me at all to learn that the vast majority of our faux journalists are allies of Antifa and every other group of America’s enemies.
YOU STAND WITH THE ENEMY, EXPECT TO GET SHOT WITH THE ENEMY
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