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This site appears extremely more credible, due to more reliable sources, than the one with a 1000 upvotes here yesterday. Looking at this site’s about page they appear to source their information from industry related organizations where the one from yesterday sourced its data from one person aggregating data off Twitter.

The numbers are dramatically different though.

Are the numbers really that different? This site only shows incidents up through Saturday. The more recent coverage in the github thing yesterday just isn't there yet. But I'm happy you think this one is trustworthy and hope you stick around to watch them add incidents.
Why do journalists have such a complex?

Investigative jouralism is pretty much dead, most just repost news from other sources nowadays or focus on banal local news but they still have these weird delusions of grandeur that they are defending free speech by getting whacked by police like the rest of the rioters.

The second item under "journalists attacked" is a cameraman who said he was attacked (and then rescued) by protesters. Is the goal here to count both attacks by authorities and civilians?
Why is that distinction significant?
Not op, and it’s not significant.

Especially after the authorities are telling the public to not trust the media.

I, personal opinion, trust the traditional media outlets of broadcast and print (despite some disagreement from some politicians) because there is an ethical standard they challenge each other to uphold. What I don’t trust as a news source is social media where there is no such standard. News from social media just feels like bad gossip.
Also not OP, but in that one article the violence was indiscriminate, not targeting journalists.

James Taranto in his Best of the Web column had a running gag poking fun at articles where lots of people were affected by a problem, but the author dwells on one particular group, under a heading of "World Ends, X hardest hit." Yes, journalists are being affected by recent violence, but so are a lot of other people.

I just think it would be productive to focus on reducing any violence. I suspect focus on particular groups exists to qualify some artificial us versus them dichotomy.
The press freedom organizations (yes, there are many around the world) are concerned with what their name implies.

The source of the attacks does not change its effects on freedom.

If it fits and feeds the Narrative, yes.
From their website:

"Journalists who face physical violence, either as the result of a targeted attack by a public or private individual or in the course of their work. If a journalist is hit by rubber bullets or bean bag rounds, it will be counted in this category.

Damage to equipment is counted in a separate "Equipment Damage" category, but may be also listed in this Physical Attack category if the damage occurs with an attack.

Journalists affected by tear gas, pepper spray, or other mass riot control agents will be counted if the individual suffers serious injury or appears to have been specifically targeted. Incidents that fall outside these parameters and in which multiple journalists were affected by riot control agents may be counted in the “Other” category."

https://pressfreedomtracker.us/physical-attack/

Yes. It's important that the press be able to fully, accurately, and safely report on big events in a country. If they can't, that's a press freedom problem, regardless of whose fault it is that they're not safe.
https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/fox-news-crew-c...

Wow, this is scary to think about. I'm glad the reporters didn't die.

For sure, also any of the news crews that were shot in the camera with rubber bullets were dangerously close to being seriously injured or death.

The below study would also assume not all the shots were head shots, aiming at a camera is the same as aiming at the head.

"The injuries in 90 patients caused by rubber bullets are described. There was 1 death and 17 people in the series had permanent disabilities or deformities. In 41 patients the injuries necessitated admission to hospital. One fatality outside this series is known. Injuries to the head and neck were frequent and severe."

source: https://archive.vn/20130106045139/http://www3.interscience.w...

How well can you actually aim with rubber bullets? Do they fly in the same way as normal bullets?
You're supposed to bounce them off the street so they lose most of their velocity. More than a few of the police force apparently forgot that part of their training.

Note that this only applies to the 35mm/40mm rubber bullets, not the less-than-lethal beanbag/rubber pellet munitions.

in other parts of the world the news crews stay behind the police lines. Mostly in more repressive regimes, the news are not considered either free or friendly and are targeted during a riot.
Unfortunately this cannot measure the implicit censorship where media hides the true scale of the unrest.

Warning that the following content is extremely sad and tragic. Also embarrassing as it makes the US look like a undeveloped country with "street justice". Veteran blogger Pierre Legrand put together a massive dump of "citizen journalist" video clips of the past several days' events:

Man stomped and stoned for trying to defend a bar from being looted

https://streamable.com/xkcvkk

Destroying store and beating unarmed woman and her husband

https://streamable.com/rvrwil

Beating and stomping guy on the ground Santa Monica

https://streamable.com/x6ue5x

Restaurant manager beaten and stomped for trying to defend his workplace

https://streamable.com/ila4dh

Stopping, beating and stomping a truck driver while protesters yell to kill him

https://streamable.com/8zk9dq

Protesters attack a media member and then pummel him

https://streamable.com/p4i3jb

Chasing guy and kicking him in the face for defending flag in Portland

https://streamable.com/ky6jyh

Police officer beaten on the streets

https://streamable.com/je4ki5

Car runs over a cop

https://streamable.com/q4nat7

Protesters set homeless man’s belongings on fire

https://streamable.com/sdjvfa

Throwing fireworks at the cops

https://streamable.com/7sv4a9

Looting a FedEx truck then looter gets dragged when truck tries to escape

https://streamable.com/n1azx3

Chasing and beating guy with red had

https://streamable.com/rcsmi0

Rioter sets himself on fire while trying to set a building on fire

https://streamable.com/w5wa8l

Fireworks thrown into CNN hq / Police officers

https://streamable.com/7dw6g7

Protester runs over the cops with an SUV

https://streamable.com/ttijvn

Destroying/looting/setting on fire Old Navy

https://streamable.com/oceqqg

Guardhouse in front of WH set on fire

https://streamable.com/vfopia

Dozens of cars destroyed/torched near CNN hq – Atlanta

https://streamable.com/ubjohz

St Louis neighborhood on fire

https://streamable.com/8lnd7v

Building on fire while self-proclaimed Mexicans say fuck white people

https://str...

Most (if not all) of these are in defense of property. It's sad to give up your life for property. Remember, property can be replaced, lives cannot.

Personally, I think that protesting and destroying property is a true valid form of protest. For instance: the Civil Rights Act of 1968 wasn't passed until after the riots.

You raise an excellent point. You should torch your own home in protest and give away anything valuable that you have to the peaceful protesters. It's only stuff, but destroying racism is forever. Just think of how awesome a person that would make you, helping to destroy racism by sacrificing your own home and all your easily replaceable stuff.
Property can't always be replaced, especially when it's peoples livelihoods. Unfortunately while Target may have full insurance policies, locally owned businesses (especially those owned by minorities and people of color) probably are either very underinsured or not insured at all.

When you try to burn down someones business or especially their home, they're going to respond with violence. They're also going to suddenly go from being sympathetic to your cause to extremely antagonistic. There are two ways to achieve peace, and everyone putting down their weapons and agreeing to talk it out is the more recent of the two. We must always seek civility.

Wow, that 5th one is scarily similar to the Reginald Denny incident. I hope the rioters didn't actually kill him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Reginald_Denny

>Car runs over a cop

>https://streamable.com/q4nat7

This video is cut short (full video at https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/newyork/video-2183600/Vide... ) but unmarked police car parks without lights or sirens facing the wrong way on a one way street. Police officer dressed fully in black proceeds to exit the vehicle on the passenger side and walk directly into traffic with no right of way. I know memes are discouraged here but shocked pikachu face.

Regular citizens are told "if you don't want police to hit you with their car door, don't stand in the middle of the road", the irony... https://twitter.com/DriveWendys/status/1266555286678048770

It is not like they walked out into the path of an on-coming car. The car was on the other side of the street behind another car. The car deliberately veered and accelerated into them.
I think people should have protests targeted toward (lack of) freedom of press itself. I mean freedom of press is the big story here.

Because bad things unreported are even worse than bad things reported. Its all about building trust for society. What do you think?