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While this may sound like a new low in public disorder in the northern Bay Area, robbing news crews while they are on the air has been a Thing for at least a decade. From CBS in San Francisco way back in 2012:
11-08) 11:36 PST OAKLAND — A KPIX news cameraman was punched and robbed Wednesday during a live broadcast outside an Oakland high school, the latest in a spate of holdups targeting the media, police said.
You can see the camera swing wildly in the last one or two seconds of both clips.
Reporter Anne Makovec and cameraman Gregg Welk were on the air shortly after noon outside Oakland Technical High School near the corner of 42nd Street and Broadway. They were at the school to do a story on the passage of Proposition 30, the tax measure preventing deep budget cuts to education.
As Makovec was finishing her report, police said, five men rushed up and grabbed a $6,000 camera from the tripod. Viewers saw the live picture being jarred and turned sideways for about two seconds.
One of the assailants punched Welk in the mouth before the group fled in a Mercedes-Benz, which apparently was accompanied by a Lexus, police said. …
Monifa said the station would continue to report in Oakland but declined to specify whether any changes would be made to protect its crews.Sources, however, said all KPIX crews covering stories in Oakland would be accompanied by security guards, day or night, effective immediately. The incident comes amid a series of robberies in which the news media have been victims throughout Oakland, often in broad daylight.
This is the only song I’ve sung on key in my life:
Apparently, I can sing less incompetently as a tenor than a baritone, but I didn’t realize that until I was pushing 50. I always wanted to sing “Old Man River.” I’d start out with a nice deep tone, but I’d soon go wildly off key.
Oh, well …
