Journalist who worked with PBS & National Geographic tells us what it's like being shot in the face

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Trip Jennings doesn't know why law enforcement agents Portland shot him in the head, nor if there will be lasting damage to the eye in which he was struck with a less-lethal round.

But the videographer for PBS and National Geographic fully understands that if this can happen to him — a 6'2" white guy with a fancy camera around his neck; a veteran journalist complying with a police order to disperse — then what about those without that privilege?

"It's a rare moment where my white privilege doesn't fully protect me," Jennings said in an interview with Business Insider on Monday, hours after checking out of the hospital where he was treated for a hemorrhaging eye.

"I know in almost any situation that I interact with the cops, I might get in trouble if I've been speeding but I'm not going to die," he said. "This is one of the few moments in my life, in the United States, where I wasn't sure."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/journalist-whos-worked-pbs-national-070158122.html

[underpants]

1. A very frank assessment

Yikes shot in the face.

[MagickMuffin]

2. They were NOT near the Fed Building when ATTACKED

from same article

A veteran journalist who has covered protests around the world, Jennings was a block and a half from the Portland Federal Building in Oregon's largest city, the scene of daily clashes between protesters and a growing assortment of US law enforcement deployed by President Donald Trump, when around midnight he heard a muffled order shouted through a loudspeaker.

He doesn't know what caused the protest to be declared an illegal riot, but he is clear about what happened next.

"It was accompanied by a lot of tear gas and a lot of impact munitions," he recounted. "I hunkered down behind some of the activists' shields and shot some photos. And then there was just too much tear gas to stay."