Update (6/4/20, 6/15/20): This post has been reorganized by location and updated with more instances of journalists being targeted across the U.S. We will update the list as the protests continue.
George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25. In the days since, an uprising against systemic and racist police violence has spread across the country. The uprising has also focused on EMT Breonna Taylor, who was killed by police in Louisville, Kentucky, on March 13. That uprising has been met with police brutality, and in many of the instances, police have targeted and even arrested journalists covering these events.
Police continued to target journalists across the country throughout the protests. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker has recorded over 400 potential incidents of press freedom violations since protests began. More news of journalists being arrested, pepper-sprayed, and shot at with various projectiles and other forms of abuse continued to pile up from across the country.
This list is in no way meant to dismiss or minimize police violence against people who are not journalists. To the contrary, all demonstrators deserve equal protection against state violence under the First Amendment. Rather, the purpose here is to document that journalists have frequently been singled out by police, especially after a yearslong right-wing campaign to attack the entire news media.
Bellingcat has done a tremendous job in tracking these events as well, and its lists have been instrumental in compiling ours.