{"id":114,"date":"2026-05-22T13:26:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ompichnews71.pics\/?p=114"},"modified":"2026-05-22T13:26:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:26:37","slug":"reporter-shot-by-police-while-filming-la-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ompichnews71.pics\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Reporter shot by police while filming LA riots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During violent protests in downtown Los Angeles over President Donald Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown, Australian 9News reporter Lauren Tomasi was struck by a rubber bullet while reporting live near the Metropolitan Detention Centre. The protests escalated from small gatherings to thousands of rioters, with vehicles set on fire and clashes breaking out with police.<\/p>\n<p>Tomasi was describing the LAPD moving in on horseback and firing rubber bullets when she was hit. A bystander shouted, \u201cYou just shot the reporter,\u201d while footage appeared to show an officer aiming directly at her. Despite the incident, Tomasi remained calm and confirmed she was okay.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t42UBBolOvo?si=KOPDi74__F6TYVvK\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>9News later stated that Tomasi and her camera operator were safe, calling the incident a reminder of the dangers journalists face while covering protests. Australian Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young condemned the shooting as \u201ccompletely unacceptable\u201d and urged Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to raise the issue with the US government, stressing the importance of press freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass urged residents to avoid violence and chaos during the ongoing unrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During violent protests in downtown Los Angeles over President Donald Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown, Australian 9News reporter Lauren Tomasi was struck by a rubber bullet while reporting live near the Metropolitan&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ompichnews71.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ompichnews71.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ompichnews71.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ompichnews71.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ompichnews71.pics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ompichnews71.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/ompichnews71.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ompichnews71.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ompichnews71.pics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ompichnews71.pics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ompichnews71.pics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}