BLM Protesters Attack Media near Brooklyn Center Police Building
14 Apr 2021
BLM protesters attacked news media during the fourth night of demonstrations outside the Blanchard Center Police Department headquarters on Wednesday night. A CNN news crew member fell to the ground after being struck in the head by a thrown water bottle.
A video tweeted by
Washington Examiner reporter Nic Rowan shows a member of a CNN news crew being attacked by protesters. Someone off-camera throws a water bottle striking the CNN worker in the head. He stumbles to the ground for a few seconds as people mocked him.
Protesters throw a water bottle at a CNN crew member and hit him square on the head. They mock him when he falls down. pic.twitter.com/cBfRN9DJOj
Protesters chase CNN away from the police station, hit one with a bottle
Protesters chased CNN away from the police precinct this evening and one CNN crew member was hit in the head with a water bottle. I don’t know about this particular bottle, but, at the last rally I attended, the bottles were filled with frozen water.
Protesters just chased the entire CNN crew away from the police precinct. pic.twitter.com/r6TGmnBxIH
Someone threw a water bottle at one of the CNN crew as you can see on this clip:
Protesters throw a water bottle at a CNN crew member and hit him square on the head. They mock him when he falls down. pic.twitter.com/cBfRN9DJOj
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A group of unruly protesters attacked a CNN news crew near a Brooklyn Center police precinct on the fourth consecutive night of demonstrations following the fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright.
The CNN crew, which included reporter Miguel Marquez, was filming protesters screaming at police officers through a fence surrounding the headquarters when two young women, who refused to give their names, demanded the crew cover the rally across the street rather than the police presence.
Marquez attempted to explain that demonstrators don t dictate the news coverage before a larger group shooed the news crew away.
The
Anderson Cooper 360 and
Cuomo Prime Time on Wednesday, a person from one of their crews on the ground in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota became the victim of battery when a member of the Black Lives Matter mob beamed him in the head with an apparently frozen water bottle, causing him to seemingly lose consciousness for a moment and fall to the ground.
Even though the crew was later chased away from the chaotic and violent scene, CNN never mentioned it on-air (as of this blog s publication).
In a video
Washington Examiner reporter Nic Rowan, a crowd can be seen swarming around the CNN crew supporting correspondent Miguel Marquez. A woman who seemed to be a part of the crowd stood with her back to the crew saying “it’s all peace baby, it’s all peace.”
CREDIT: Nic Rowan/Twitter
Things are heating up in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota again tonight, the third night after the police shooting of Daunte Wright.
CNN is there with Miguel Marquez and his crew. The BLM ‘protesters’ just attacked one of the crew members. They threw a water bottle, hitting the older gentleman square in the head and you can see him go down, visibly a little stunned. They then laugh at him and mock him, with a couple trying to see if he’s okay. He gets up and seems to want to take them on, but is held back.