The US press have suffered about as many assaults this year as in the previous three years combined

The United States has seen a dramatic increase in violence against journalists since Donald Trump again took office.

Most of the reporters and photographers who were allegedly attacked by law enforcement officials were covering protests over the Trump administration’s efforts to deport undocumented immigrants, according to the Freedom of the Press Foundation, a non-profit that tracks such incidents.

The US press have suffered about as many assaults this year as in the previous three years combined, the organization states in a new report.

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      All of their professed values are fake like this: freedom, the constitution, small government, free markets, Jesus, the right to life, resisting tyranny. When it comes down to it they’re opposed to them all.

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    I’d say there’s a dramatic increase in violence in general in the USA. No one is safe. Not immigrants, not citizens, not pastors, not journalists, not even children, NO ONE is safe in the USA.

    I just wonder what it will take for someone to stand up to the fascists and give them their own medicine.