{"id":321560,"date":"2017-08-13T23:10:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T22:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/female-reporter-for-the-hill-allegedly-punched-by-antifa-protester-in-charlottesville\/"},"modified":"2017-08-13T23:10:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T22:10:38","slug":"female-reporter-for-the-hill-allegedly-punched-by-antifa-protester-in-charlottesville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/female-reporter-for-the-hill-allegedly-punched-by-antifa-protester-in-charlottesville\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Reporter for The Hill Allegedly Punched by \u2018Antifa\u2019 Protester in Charlottesville"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2017\/08\/12\/female-reporter-for-the-hill-allegedly-punched-by-antifa-protester-in-charlottesville\/\"><strong>Breitbart<\/strong><\/a><br \/>August 13, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>A female reporter for the\u00a0<i>Hill<\/i>\u00a0was allegedly punched by an \u201cAntifa\u201d protester in the wake of a deadly car attack in Charlottesville, Virginia Saturday as she tried to film the ensuing chaos.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taylor Lorenz was filming the site of the incident that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/live\/live-wire-charlottesville-protest-turns-violent-as-state-of-emergency-declared\/\">left<\/a>\u00a0at least one person dead \u2014 after\u00a0a car was driven into a crowd of \u201canti-fascist\u201d protesters responding to a parallel white nationalist protest in the city.\u00a0The suspect was\u00a0<a class=\" x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/james-alex-fields-jr-idd-as-charlottesville-suspect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">identified<\/a>\u00a0by police late Saturday as 20-year-old James Alex Fields Jr.<\/p>\n<p>According to video\u00a0<a class=\" x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4785564\/Reporter-punched-face-Charlottesville-rally.html#v-4031435515058306353\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">given<\/a>\u00a0to DailyMail.com by Lorenz (who is a former reporter for the outlet), a nearby shirtless protester objects to her filming the resulting pandemonium and is heard asking her to stop filming. When she refuses to put her camera away, he appears to punch her and yells \u201cstop fucking recording.\u201d Lorenz can be heard yelling as her phone hits the ground, and others intervene.<\/p>\n<p>She said on Twitter that she was fine apart from being \u201creally fucking pissed,\u201d and said she was attempting to file charges against the man who punched her.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#8217;m filing a charge against the guy for punching me but it&#8217;s slammed at the police station right now so prob nothing will happen &#x1f643;&#x1f643;&#x1f643;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TaylorLorenz\/status\/896442463556182020\">August 12, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Also people asking (I&#8217;m fine!) really fucking pissed at the guy who punched me mostly because he cut off my stream.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TaylorLorenz\/status\/896445039311802368\">August 12, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2017\/08\/12\/female-reporter-for-the-hill-allegedly-punched-by-antifa-protester-in-charlottesville\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Sunday, August 13, 2017  at  8:37 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/female-reporter-for-the-hill-allegedly-punched-by-antifa-protester-in-charlottesville.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p>        <!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n --><\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/female-reporter-for-the-hill-allegedly-punched-by-antifa-protester-in-charlottesville.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BreitbartAugust 13, 2017 A female reporter for the\u00a0Hill\u00a0was allegedly punched by an \u201cAntifa\u201d protester in the wake of a deadly car attack in Charlottesville, Virginia Saturday as she tried to film the ensuing chaos. 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