Pipeline Protest Reporter Shot With Rubber Bullet Mid-Interview, She Says

‘Footage taken during the Dakota Access Pipeline protests in North Dakota Wednesday appears to show a rubber bullet hitting a journalist in the back as she conducted an interview.
Erin Schrode, an activist and congressional candidate in California, posted a video on Facebook Thursday that shows her interviewing a Native American man, then suddenly falling to the ground as people rush to surround her in concern. She wrote that law enforcement shot her in the lower back with a rubber bullet, though neither the act nor the bullet can be seen on camera.
“I was shot by militarized police WHILE interviewing a peaceful man at Standing Rock live on camera,” she wrote.’
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