Birmingham Journalists Attacked On Live TV For Recording Looters ‘Faces’

Birmingham Alabama Journalists Beaten Up On Live TV For Recording Looters ‘Faces’

While protests continue in the United States over the recent killing of George Floyd, situation in Birmingham is beginning to get worse. Two reporters from local Alabama media outlets were beaten up while covering the protests in the heart of downtown Birmingham.

The reporters were livestream broadcasting on Facebook, and the stream captured the shocking incident, which occurred right outside of Alabama Power Company’s headquarters.

The Birmingham protests started out peacefully, but the crowd began destroying a Confederate statue which many see as an outrageous symbol of White supremacy and a constant reminder of the Jim Crow era right in the middle of the city’s capital.

A melee ensued on Sunday night, when the reporters began filming the men who were destroying the statue – and were circulating the video to law enforcement.

When the crowd realized what the journalists were doing, they turned on them. In the video which has since gone viral, a group of masked men were recorded hitting Stephen Quinn with ABC 33/40 over the back of the head and then stomping him out.

Watch the clip below :

Footage from @aldotcom shows journalists being attacked in downtown Birmingham during a protest against the killing of #GeorgeFloyd pic.twitter.com/rD0l3fLo2I

— Jessa Reid Bolling (@jr_bolling) June 1, 2020