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Los Angeles Times reporter Molly Hennessy-Fiske said on Twitter that she and other colleagues covering the protests in Minnesota were tear gassed at \"point blank range.\"

Minnesota State Patrol just fired tear gas at reporters and photographers at point blank range. pic.twitter.com/r7X6J7LKo8

— Molly Hennessy-Fiske (@mollyhf) May 31, 2020

\"We identified ourselves as press and they fired tear gas canisters on us at point blank range, I got hit in the leg,\" she said in a video shared Twitter. \"I was saying, ‘Where do we go? Where do we go?’ They did not tell us where to go. They didn’t direct us. They just fired on us.\"

She recounted her experience for the LA Times here.

Another reporter in Minnesota for the Star Tribune shared on Twitter that police shot rubber bullets through his car window, shattering the glass.

This is @RyanFaircloth, a reporter with the @StarTribune. He says he was trying to get home when police shot out his window.

He is bleeding but seems ok. pic.twitter.com/LYH0h7c4hf

— Jared Goyette (@JaredGoyette) May 31, 2020

\"I’m bleeding,\" Ryan Faircloth said in the video. \"Cops just shot my window out, my passenger side window out. Glass shattered as I tried to quickly turn and get out of their way.\"

The new instances have raised alarm for press advocacy groups.

\"It’s not enough to cover the protests via the official podiums of local police departments and politicians. Reporters need to be free to turn their cameras and microphones toward the local organizers who have long engaged in the fight for black dignity alongside those who are now taking to the streets with legitimate grievances against a system that devalues the lives of our people,\" Alicia Bell, the News Voices organizing manager at the advocacy group Free Press, said in a statement.

\"Rather than allowing law enforcement to control the narrative and vilify black people, as has been the case too often in the past, journalists have the right to mingle among protesters to document and air their perspectives,\" Bell added.

She said this moment, however, also underscores the importance of building a relationship between newsrooms and communities.

The Save Journalism Project called the attacks \"unconscionable.\"

\"In reporting on protests of police violence against black Americans, reporters and journalists have become targets of violence themselves,\" cofounders Laura Bassett and John Stanton and spokesperson Nick Charles said in a joint statement.

\"The acts of violence and injustice against reporters covering the fight for black lives against police brutality is unconscionable,\" the statement added. \"It impedes the press’ ability to hold officials accountable and shed light on the fight for equality.\"

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