Homeland Security agents shot me and other journalists with pepper ball bullets yesterday in Los Angeles

The father is screaming “help”

This is the second day in the row federal agents shot journalists

Officers shot @ryannemena.bsky.social & Sean Beckner-Carmitchel w/pepper balls. British journo Nick Stern had emergency surgery after a plastic bullet struck his leg Sunday. Officers shot Lauren Tomasi in the leg w/a rubber bullet as she reported on air: Committee to Protect Journalists cpj.org/2025/06/law-en…

Reporter @ryannemena.bsky.social of So Cal News Group was shot with crowd-control munitions by federal agents two days in a row while covering anti-deportation protests in LA County. On June 6, she was shot in the thigh with a pepper ball. pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/…

I was diagnosed with a concussion after federal agents shot me in the head with a rubber bullet.

Today Glendale Memorial Hospital did not allow an attorney with ImmDef entry to see their client. Journalists were also denied entry into the lobby, the same “public space” federally contracted detention officers are allowed to occupy.

Do not be surprised when we journalists stop covering news here. I swear by God that today I could not get up from the hunger. There is no food. Even if someone has money, there is nothing in the market to even purchase. We are all starving. We are all dying.

At the Adelanto ICE processing center, people with disabilities face abuse & neglect, according to a recent report that found detainees are being denied medication, food & care. Read more: dailynews.com/2025/08/14/peo…

Last week, Border Patrol agents massed outside of a Governor Gavin Newsom news conference. They wound up arresting Angel Minguela Palacios, a strawberry delivery driver with no criminal record who was there to drop off fruit to a tea room. This is his story latimes.com/california/sto…