This is the moment when a television journalist was shot on the air, as she reported violent immigration riots in Los Angeles.
Australian correspondent Lauren Tomasi was covering the protests on nine news when it was detonated close to a rubber bullet, collapsing in the broadcast in the middle of the broadcast.
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“LAPD moves on horseback and shoots on rubber bullets on the demonstrators,” Tomasi told the viewers, as he repeated the loud explosions in the center of Los Angeles.
Suddenly, a police officer swelled his weapon towards her, and a cloud of smoke erupted near the reporter.
It caught on the camera, the Tomasi doubled in pain, and lived on the air.
“You are just a correspondent snapshot!” An angry protester cried in the police, where others rushed to help the injured Australian.
Despite the horrific moment, Thomasi was able to scream, “I'm good, I'm good.”
Her network later confirmed that she “left painful but not authorized” because of the influence – but the image of the targeted journalist has already angered.
This comes after a British photographer photographer was transferred to the hospital for emergency surgery when he tore a “sponge bullet” of his thigh during the same night of violence.
Nick Stern, 60, from Herford, said he made himself clearly clear as a member of the press when he was shot while filming a confrontation between the demonstrators and policemen.
He told the Times: “I felt that this terrible pain that affects my legs. I felt immediately and felt this big square … The demonstrators came to help and I was just saying,” sitting me, practicing me “… then I took out.”
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