Seattle Police Hit Woman in Chest Directly with Stun Grenade (+Video)

An activist posted the video of the incident on Twitter saying, “Seattle PD hit a 21 year old female directly in the chest with a stun grenade.

Volunteer medics & protesters rushed to her aid. After being carried away, she was unresponsive, with no pulse.

They revived her. She’s in critical condition. Smh.” — Travis Akers @travisakers

Another person who apparently witnessed scene wrote in a tweet, “She had no pulse 4 times a medic said. And that the police flash bombed the medic tent she was in when they were still trying to take care of her. They also flash bombed this photographer."

"She had no pulse 4 times a medic said. And that the police flash bombed the medic tent she was in when they where still trying to take care of her. They also flash bombed this photographer." — CJirishlez @CJirishlez

In the meantime the Hill reported that a NBC News correspondent was in a similar incident hit by a flash-bang grenade belonging to the lae enforcement on Monday during a live broadcast of coverage of a protest in Seattle over George Floyd’s death.

Jo Ling Kent, clad in a mask to protect against tear gas, was reporting from a sports complex about the demonstration in the city's Capitol Hill neighborhood when her left arm was hit by a fiery, orange burst.

The projectile was initially thought to a firework but after reviewing the footage, the network determined that it was a flash-bang grenade mostly likely fired by police.

The Seattle Police Department declared that the Capitol Hill protest had become a riot after demonstrators threw "rocks, bottles and fireworks at officers."

Incident commander at demonstration on Capitol Hill is declaring the incident a riot. Crowd has thrown rocks, bottles and fireworks at officers and is attempting to breach barricades one block from the East Precinct. — Seattle Police Dept. (@SeattlePD) June 2, 2020

Dozens of reporters and TV crews have been attacked, arrested or harassed while on the job covering the protests following the death of Floyd, an unarmed black man who was killed last week while in Minneapolis police custody.

A 21-year-old weekend editor at a local television station in Indiana lost his left eye after being struck by a tear gas canister fired by police into a crowd of protesters, and a reporter and camera operator were shot with pepper balls during a live broadcast in Louisville, Ky.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday called for an investigation after police were seen attacking an Australian news crew covering the protests outside of the White House.