CNN is typically called out for running fake news.
But even they couldn’t have made this up.
CNN journalist Bruna Macedo was reporting live when she was mugged at knifepoint — and the incident was caught on video then quickly spread across the internet like wildfire.
The video began with the suspected mugger lurking in the background of the broadcast behind Macedo, who was standing along the Bandeiras Bridge in Brazil. According to Independent UK, Macedo had been reporting on the increasing water levels of the Tiete River when the man reportedly approached her with a knife.
The suspect engages Macedo, who backs away and gives up her phone.
You can watch the video from CNN Brazil below:
CNN Brazil channels female reporter got robbed on a live program while reporting pic.twitter.com/6aajrb6HjH
— Swadeshi Alien 🇮🇳 (@swadeshi_alien) July 2, 2020
The dangerous overseas attack follows a trend of journalists becoming targets. Right here in America, nationwide unrest has seen journalists repeatedly exposed to violence on behalf of mass rioting.
Rioters aren’t sparing any network, whether liberal or conservative.
Following the police-involved death of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta, a CNN film crew covering the Wendy’s riot was attacked by a man wielding a skateboard. During the event, a crowd of agitators would be heard shouting, “block the camera.”
https://twitter.com/NatashaChenCNN/status/1272023074603401216
Even Fox News reporters are being targeted.
A mob of angry liberal protesters drove longtime reporter Leland Vittert from the George Floyd protests, but not before reportedly punching one of his bodyguards in the face while the harassers drove the network from the scene.
Following the incident, Vittert called it the “scariest situation” since he’d been in since being chased by a mob in Cairo, Egypt.
Warning: The video below contains obscene language.
The angry liberal mobs aren’t sparing MSNBC reporters either.
Veteran host Andrea Mitchell had been reporting on the “autonomous zone” in Washington D.C., when she escaped an attack by a man who attempted to crash the set.
Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) and Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton almost attacked: pic.twitter.com/Y1ph336GHI
— Henry Rodgers (@henryrodgersdc) June 23, 2020
As the number of attacks on journalists increase, liberals are setting a dangerous precedent by calling to defund the police — which in the end leaves journalists vulnerable to the ongoing nationwide unrest.
The Horn editorial team