Journalists across the country covering the protests and unrest in response to the murder of George Floyd have been attacked and arrested by police, with several of those incidents occurring on air.
“Police forces have regularly attacked and arrested journalists at protests in this country. But often it has been unfamous [sic] journalists from non-corporate outlets, so no one paid attention to it,” Jeremy Scahill of The Intercept wrote. “Now, the police are deliberately & consistently attacking corporate journalists too.”
One such incident occurred in Louisville, Kentucky, where reporter Kaitlin Rust for WAVE 3 was covering a march protesting the death of Breonna Taylor, a woman who was fatally shot by police in March.