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Photographer Gets Punched in the Face by Police Officer at Colombia Protest

Chris Gampat
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09/02/2013
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Last Updated on 09/02/2013 by Chris Gampat

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If you’ve ever tried to photograph a protest, you’ll know that it isn’t exactly the easiest things to do with both police and protesters sometimes giving you their worst sides. There are currently protests happening in the Medellin area of Colombia and recently a photographer was struck in the face by a police officer while trying to do his job.

According to a Google Translation of an article, at first the police moved in and threatened to break the journalists camera–when the journalist stated that he was doing his job he was punched in the face and then smacked in the cheek.

But the story doesn’t end there: another photographer apparently had a stun bomb (possibly a flashbang or something of more non-lethal force) thrown at him and shrapnel from the canister cut his face.

And once again…do your job with caution folks.

Thanks to Juan for sending in this story

Via El Espectador


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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.