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From KQED. Welcome back to Forum. I'm Michael Krasny.

Journalists around the country covering protests against the police killing of George Floyd have been shot with rubber bullets, tear gas, arrested, and reportedly assaulted by police.

Advocates for journalists say there has been an unprecedented amount of violence against reporters and photographers this week, threatening the rights of a free press.

And joining me to discuss police attacks on journalists is Joel Simon. He's the executive director of the committee to protect journalists and welcome Joel Simon.

We're going to have Joel Simon with us momentarily. We have Barbara Davidson with us, I believe, now. She's a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, independent journalists. She was shoved by an officer while covering protests on Saturday in Los Angeles. Barbara Davidson, welcome. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me.

Glad to have you. And you're a pretty stellar and veteran figure in this world of freelance journalism. And I'm just wondering

if you could tell the story for our listeners of what happened to you. In many years that

you've been involved, you've never felt attacked until, well, this protest in L.A. that you

covered. Exactly. Certainly not in the United States. And I was covering the protests on Saturday

in the Grove area, which is sort of, you know, a well-to-do area.

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