BlazeTV reporter Elijah Schaffer was assaulted Tuesday night while filming the unrest in Philadelphia following the fatal shooting of Walter Wallace Jr by police
Protesters took to the streets of west Philadelphia on Monday after two Philadelphia policemen shot Wallace for accusing him with a knife on Monday, as previously reported However, what started as Black Lives Matter protests quickly turned into vandalism, riots and mass looting in the city, with many stores ransacked like Walmart, T-Mobile, Dollar Tree and Five Below.
Schaffer was covering an ongoing looting of the Five Below store when it was attacked by looters Daily Caller reporter Shelby Talcott, who was also on the ground to report, shared video footage of the incident on Twitter
« Massive looting across the river and @ElijahSchaffer just beaten up for the shoot This is inside the Five below store The police are in the same parking lot near the Walmart, but there seems to be too many looters «
The clip showed her walking inside the store and seeing Schaffer, who can be seen wearing a white patterned bandana to cover her face, approached by suspected looters asking her to « Stop ‘record! » The raiders can be seen surrounding Schaffer and repeatedly punching him Talcott also shared footage of Schaffer with a bleeding lip
Schaffer explained in a video posted to his own Twitter account saying he was « jumped by BLM rioters as they looted more than a dozen stores »,
« Although in pain I have not stopped reporting because Americans need to see what corporate media refuse to show, » he added
Schaffer then shared the footage he took moments before he was attacked « Here are the footage I was recording when BLM assaulted me, » he captioned the clip, « D ‘ other journalists were filming but I was the only white person in the store I believe I was targeted for being white because they accused me of being a white supremacist & did not attack people of color «
PHILADELPHIA: Here are the footage I was recording when BLM assaulted me Other journalists were filming but I was the only white person in the storeI believe I was targeted for being white because they accused me of being a white supremacist & did not attack people of color picTwittercom / Gji7uHq0gB
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