From the ACLU, I'm Molly Kaplan, the director of multimedia for the ACLU and your host for this episode.

Journalists covering protests against police brutality across the country are facing an influx of violence, suppression efforts, and arrest by police.

According to the U.S. press freedom tracker, there have been over 300 claims of violations

to press freedoms since the protests began. These violations include being assaulted with

pepper spray and rubber bullets, dealing with damaged equipment, and even facing arrest.

Joining us today on the podcast is

Jared Goiette, a freelance reporter who was covering a local Minneapolis protest when he was

hit in the eye with a police projectile. He is now the named plaintiff in a lawsuit the ACLU of

Minnesota filed last week against the city of Minneapolis, seeking justice for the violence he and other journalists

experienced covering the protests.

Jared, thank you so much for being here. I wanted to start by saying, you know, acknowledging

the time. This is an incredibly tenuous and raw time in this country. And you've been front and

center bearing witness to a lot over the last weeks. How are you doing?

Is probably the first question we should be asking.

I'm doing okay. It's healing nicely. The eyes heal quickly. My nose is still a little bit sore.

I got to keep on remembering to put in the eyedrops. There's a feeling of just being in a historic and important moment and wanting to do as good a job as possible to document it.

And there's just so much happening at once as journalists.

We're doing the best we can.

And as we mentioned in the introduction, you're a freelance journalist, and on this particular

assignment, can you tell us what you were covering? Sure. I was on assignment with the Washington Post.

I was working both with their investigative team and with their national desk. In the hours

leading up to this, I was helping to gather CCTV footage of the incident itself, of the moments

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