Australian Ambassador to the US Arthur Sinodinos said on Tuesday he was "aware of the treatment" inflicted on Amelia Brace and Tim Myers.
There was no pushing, no shoving, no aggro, and that was despite there being thousands of people. Your eyes are trained on the camera, you are thinking about what you are saying and you don't really have that peripheral vision because you are thinking about how to tell the story to the viewers.""I pushed him off me but one of the scariest things was the fact that he was super calm," she said."Normally when someone confronts you, you scream and they sprint off. A screen-capture taken from video shows Network Seven cameraman Tim Myers and reporter Amelia Brace as they were assaulted by police officers while covering protests outside the White House. And it's weird for me to hear it because I have never screamed like that before. An Australian journalist and cameraman have been assaulted by US police while reporting on protests outside the White House. What happened to the Australian crew is one of many instances of journalists reporting from protests in the US being caught up in violence and targeted by police officers.
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My sister said she feels sick to the stomach hearing it. Network Seven cameraman Tim Myers was hit with a riot shield and punched in the face, while reporter Amelia Brace was clubbed with a truncheon. He was detained by Conduit and bystanders before police arrived. Later in the day, Walsh's colleague Ben Avery was chased down a central London street by a crowd hurling bottles and other projectiles.
But there was this one group that hung around and caused the trouble."The incident occurred on the third anniversary of the terrorist attack on London Bridge and Borough Market in which three men ran down pedestrians and stabbed others in a late-night rampage that killed eight people and injured nearly 50 more. 7NEWS US Correspondent Amelia Brace and cameraman Tim Myers were assaulted during their coverage of riots near the White House in Washington on Tuesday morning AEST. In the incident – carried live on Australian television – a federal law enforcement official can be seen slamming a shield into the cameraman and then punching the journalist with his fist. In separate incidents now being investigated by police, Nine News journalist Sophie Walsh was assaulted in Hyde Park on Wednesday morning by a man shouting "Allahu Akbar" and making stabbing motions. Russia has demanded an investigation into an attack by Minneapolis police on a group of reporters, which included a Russian correspondent who was pepper-sprayed. He was arrested on suspicion of making threats to kill and possession of an offensive weapon - believed to be a screwdriver.Avery said he felt sympathy for the peaceful protesters whose message had been overshadowed by the violence of a minorityThe Metropolitan Police took two people into custody over that incident.A scuffle broke out and items were thrown at the police, some of whom had earlier kneeled in solidarity with the protesters.Walsh was conducting a live-cross for the network's Adelaide 6pm bulletin ahead of the protest when a man ran up to her, started making stabbing motions into the side of her body and shouted "Allahu Akbar".