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Four UCLA student journalists attacked by pro-Israel counterprotesters on campus (www.latimes.com)
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Four student journalists who work for the UCLA Daily Bruin were attacked shortly before 3:30 a.m. Wednesday by Pro-Israel counterprotesters during a campus demonstration that turned violent.

Daily Bruin news editor Catherine Hamilton, 21, told The Times she recognized one of the counterprotesters as someone who had previously verbally harassed her and taken pictures of her press badge. The individual instructed the group to encircle the student journalists, she said, before they sprayed the four with mace or pepper spray, flashed lights in their faces and chanted Hamilton’s name.

As she tried to break free, Hamilton said, she was punched repeatedly in the chest and upper abdomen; another student journalist was pushed to the ground and beaten and kicked for nearly a minute. The attack was first reported in the Daily Bruin.

“We expected to be harassed by counterprotesters,” Hamilton said in an interview Wednesday, adding that every Daily Bruin reporter was instructed to use a buddy system, to report from outside the encampment and to leave the area if it became unsafe. “I truly did not expect to be directly assaulted.”

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240502114521/https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-01/four-student-journalists-attacked-by-counterprotesters-at-ucla

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[-] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago

"white passing minorities" - easily misinterpreted as a 'one drop' comment.
"with deep pockets" - easily misinterpreted as a 'Jews control finance' comment.

Be careful how you word things as the other side shall reinterpret to take offense and play victim that you point be derailed.

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