An angry mob attacked a reporter and a photojournalist Sunday, but it wasn’t in the Middle East, it was in sunny California!
The journalists were hit and pushed by family and friends of a young man who had been gunned down the night before outside of an International House of Pancakes restaurant in Sacramento.
FOX 40 News reporter John Lobertini and his cameraperson, Rebecca Little, were assaulted after approaching a group of people standing near a memorial for 27-year-old Chester Jackson set up on the sidewalk outside the restaurant.
“This is one of the hazards of the business, but I’ve gotta tell you we didn’t expect what we encountered here,” Lobertini said during his broadcast after the attack.
In the violent footage (which you can view below), Lobertini can be seen approaching a handful of people standing by the memorial as Little recorded the encounter. Continue Reading…
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