#Cameraman ron update#

#Cameraman ron update#

Mashable has reached out to Montague and will update this post accordingly. The BBC has also reached out to the White House about the incident and the seeming lack of support from security leading up to the incident. Montague, meanwhile, returned to Twitter to confirm that Skeans is okay.Д®arly Tuesday afterrnoon afternoon, New York time, the BBC issued a statement, saying, 'It is clearly unacceptable for any of our staff to be attacked for doing their job.' 'Here's a video of him being dragged out of press row.' 'Just had a man shove photogs and equipment over,' he wrote.

Jorge Salgado, a photographer in attendance, also shared footage from a different angle. He yells 'fuck the media' twice before being led away. When it's righted, we can see a man wearing a red MAGA hat being restrained by another man. President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in El Paso, Texas. The video shows Trump speaking at the podium, before the camera is abruptly knocked sideways. British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt on Tuesday condemned an attack on a BBC cameraman by a supporter of U.S. 'The crowd had been whipped up into a frenzy against the media by Trump and other speakers all night.' Washington correspondent Gary ODonoghue, who is blind, said his colleague Ron Skeans had been filming a rally in El Paso, Texas. 'Just attended my first rally where my colleague BBC cameraman Rob Skeans was attacked by a Trump supporter,' she wrote alongside a video posted to Twitter. BBC cameraman Ron Skeans violently attacked at Donald Trump rally. He praised 'the swift action from venue security and law enforcement officers.Stephen Colbert breaks down where we're at with Trump's State of the Union address Michael Glassner, chief operating officer of Trump's re-election campaign, said an individual 'involved in a physical altercation with a news cameraman' was removed from the rally. Ted Cruz of Texas and Donald Trump Jr., were also among the speakers at the rally, which focused on border security. The TVNZ stalwart, who spent 40 years behind the lens, covered stories from political disputes in South Africa, to the. She said the crowd 'had been whipped up into a frenzy against the media' by the president and other speakers. OBITUARY: Veteran Christchurch cameraman Ron Madden wrote his own eulogy. 'We ask that anyone attending an event do so in a peaceful and respectful manner,' Sanders said.Д®leanor Montague, the Washington news editor for the British Broadcasting Company tweeted that BBC cameraman Ron Skeans was attacked at the rally and is doing fine. Shark man: Underwater world of the late Ron Taylor, marine conservationist and pioneering cameraman for Spielbergs Jaws. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said the president 'condemns all acts of violence against any individual or group of people - including members of the press.' Ron is the only one of our camera-people to have a 'hard pass' that gives you direct access to the White House estate. There was a brief scuffle on a press platform away from the stage on Monday night, when a man began shoving members of the news media and was restrained.

Knox said the president should make clear to his supporters that violence against reporters is unacceptable. The association's president, Olivier Knox, said Tuesday the group is relieved that 'this time, no one was seriously hurt.' WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House Correspondents' Association condemned on Tuesday an attack the night before of a television cameraman working at President Donald Trump's rally in El Paso, Texas.