DOWNTOWN — Three males attacked CBS2 reporters as they labored Monday close to the Alder Planetarium.
Investigators had been talking to a few “persons of interest” as of Tuesday morning, police mentioned.
About 4:30 p.m. Monday, a reporter and photographer had been working within the 900 block of East Solidarity Drive, getting ready to go reside on TV, when three males drove up in a white tow truck, according to CBS2.
One of the lads yelled racist slurs and tried to direct his canine to assault one of many CBS staff, a 54-year-old man, police mentioned. When the canine didn’t assault, the person “became irate” and threw the sufferer’s property on the bottom, breaking it, after which drove off with the opposite males within the white truck.
Witnesses instructed CBS2 the racial slurs had been directed on the photographer, who’s Black. Witnesses additionally mentioned that when one CBS2 staffer tried to defend himself from the canine, two different males jumped out of the white truck, smashed the photographer’s digicam and broke the information truck’s windshield.
The photographer and reporter weren’t injured.
“We are shocked and horrified by this crime, and we are grateful that our journalists are safe,” a CBS spokesperson mentioned in a press release.