It's what happens when your leaders constantly vilify and demean the value of a free media. When many of the problems of a country are blamed on the media not reporting the "right things", and rather than correcting information it's just denounced, it's hardly surprising that more and more people consider the media a threat rather than an asset.
And sadly the same things are happening in multiple countries.
Minneapolis photographer Linda Tirado has been left blind in one eye permanently after being shot with a rubber bullet by police while covering the protest/riots.
an update: I am permanently blind in my left eye, and the docs absolutely refuse to let me go back to work for they say six weeks. I’m definitely not allowed to be near smoke or gas.
Usually if I had to stay home I’d spend a lot of time amplifying folk but reading hurts today
Social distancing is going well in the US then. An absolutely awful situation not helped at all by the President. It's really quite sad that Barack Obama's time in office didn't really change anything.