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Injured LA Journalists Consider Legal Action
Media organizations that employed journalists injured during a Los Angeles immigrant rights rally on Tuesday say they are considering legal action against police.
Reporters say police hit them with batons and knocked over television equipment as they covered an altercation.
In a 2002 legal settlement, the police department recognized that journalists have a right to cover protests even when there is an order to disperse, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Peter Eliasberg, an ACLU lawyer who helped negotiate the settlement, told the newspaper that news reports of the violence suggest that “the police went way over the line,” using force that “violates the law and the Constitution.”
