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Journalists are often responsible for covering protests. Some protests are peaceful while others become violent making coverage for journalists unsafe. In some instances the protests themselves are not violent. However, journalist remain targets. The U.S Press Freedom Tracker documents 930 reported incidents of journalists involving arrests, assault or prevention since the death of George Floyd in 2020. In the Black Live Matter protests alone, 400 journalists were attacked and 129 were arrested. Some attacks appear targeted not by protestors, but by law enforcement. In 2020 law enforcement was responsible for 80% of attacks on journalists. With some accounts where journalists were injured by projectiles and pepper spray.

Over the past decade there has been an increased risk for journalists covering protests. According to UNESCO's observatory of killed journalists from 2020-2021 6 journalists were killed while covering protests. In some cases journalists are targeted based on demographics including but not limited to: their identity, race, gender, and sexual orientation. In UNESCO's report, the number of women in journalism killed nearly doubled since 2021, it jumped from 6% to 11%.