{"id":30725,"date":"2025-06-10T11:09:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T11:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/australian-journalist-hit-by-rubber-bullet\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T11:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T11:09:19","slug":"australian-journalist-hit-by-rubber-bullet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/australian-journalist-hit-by-rubber-bullet\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian journalist hit by &#8216;rubber bullet&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">An Australian foreign correspondent was hit by what was understood to be a rubber bullet while reporting from Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Channel Nine&#8217;s Lauren Tomasi is seen jumping in pain after the incident in which she was struck in the leg on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A law enforcement officer can be seen turning towards news cameras and firing the round before Tomasi was struck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">It comes as protests against immigration raids in the Californian city continued for a third day, with vehicles set on fire and reports of looting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cvg7vzrj6g3o\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\">A British news photographer has also been shot<\/a> in the leg with a non-lethal bullet, resulting in emergency surgery being carried out. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c87jnnj1pxno\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\">Read more on the unrest here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/c98p008kxn1o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian foreign correspondent was hit by what was understood to be a rubber bullet while reporting from Los Angeles. Channel Nine&#8217;s Lauren Tomasi is seen jumping in pain after the incident in which she was struck in the leg on Sunday. A law enforcement officer can be seen turning towards news cameras and firing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[594,8357,129,7870,10466],"class_list":["post-30725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-australian","tag-bullet","tag-hit","tag-journalist","tag-rubber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30727,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30725\/revisions\/30727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}