The recent $235,000 settlement awarded to former Marion County Record reporter Deb Gruver represents a significant recognition of the injustices she endured during the unlawful raid on the newspaper’s office and her home.

As the unrest in and around the United States continue over the murder of George Floyd, police’s violent response remain to be targeting journalists.

Maggie Koerth, a senior science reporter for the website FiveThirtyEight, was covering a protest from a Minneapolis sidewalk on Saturday when a police officer drew a weapon on her and another working journalist, impeding their work.

University campuses across the United States are organizing peaceful #BlackLivesMatter protests and student journalists are recording this unprecedented historical movement.

Des Moines police arrested Register reporter Andrea Sahouri on Sunday while she was covering a demonstration at Merle Hay Mall on June 1st.

Independent news outlet Status Coup co- founder Jenn Dize was covering the protests in Washington D.C. on May 30th when she was shot with a police projectile and pushed to the ground twice causing her to lose grip on her equipment.

Carolyn Cole, a Los Angeles Times photographer, was covering the protests in Minneapolis on May 31st when the police moved to disperse a crowd. A group of roughly 20 journalists standing apart from the protesters moved aside, but the police attacked them directly with pepper spray and rubber bullets, she said. A colleague, the reporter Molly Hennessy-Fiske, shouted, “We’re reporters!”

With the curfews put in place in large cities across the United States, reports of mass arrests have been surging. Among them was a Canadian reporter who traveled to NYC to cover the unrest, Anna Slatz with Rebel News, a Canadian news site.

VOA (Voice of America) Ukraine’s video journalist Khrystyna Shevchenko says she has never been confronted with violence during her journalism career, not even when she worked in the civil war zone in Ukraine.

KPIX 5 News reporter Katie Nielsen was detained and handcuffed on June 1st while she was covering the peaceful protest organized by Oakland Tech High School students.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution staff photographer Alyssa Pointer was detained and handcuffed on June 1st while she was covering the protests in downtown Atlanta. Pointer identified herself, and her press badge was clearly displayed. She had her hands zip-tied behind her back and was not released until other reporters intervened.

When in 1854 Mary Ann Shadd Cary debuted her news weekly, The Provincial Freeman, she was the first black woman to publish a newspaper. That was not an easy milestone to achieve: She had to battle to get her ideas into print. For a start, she migrated to Canada West (today’s Ontario) to avoid United States laws that suppressed independent black activism. From there, she built a team and raised funds.

On May 31, Mehtap Yılmaz and her crew were covering demonstrators at the middle entrance to St. John’s Church, in Lafayette Square near the White House, when police suddenly charged at them.

Protests that began in Minnesota on May 26 following the murder of George Floyd have spread across the United States, unleashing another problematic issue: attacks on freedom of the press.