A CNN crew member collapsed after being hit in the head by a water bottle while covering the protests over the fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn City, Minn., Wednesday night.
The attack was captured on video and posted to Twitter by Nicholas Rowan, a Washington Examiner staff writer.
Protesters just chased the entire CNN crew away from the police precinct. pic.twitter.com/r6TGmnBxIH
— Nic Rowan (@NicXTempore) April 15, 2021
On Monday evening, CNN reporter Sara Sidner was confronted by a demonstrator during the protests.
“Y’all be twisting up the stories and shit,” a man walked up and said to Sidner during a live report from Brooklyn Center. “All the press and all the extra shit y’all do makes this worse.”
The man told her the media was “doing all the extra shit for the backhand shit and making people look all crazier than what the f— they are.”