LAPD Threw KTTV Reporter ‘Like a Rag Doll’

By Andrew Gauthier 

Courthouse News

In the trial over the violent break-up of the immigration rally, a camerawoman testified that a policeman knocked her camera off her shoulder and shoved her to the ground, and then turned against Fox TV reporter Christina Gonzalez.

“The police officer threw her around like a rag doll,” the camerawoman said, “and Christina was yelling, ‘You can’t do this!'”

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Camerawoman Patricia Ballaz resumed her testimony in the ongoing trial over the baton-swinging charge of the Los Angeles Police Department that sent demonstrators and journalists alike hurtling back and down to the ground. More…

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