A journalist who's worked with PBS and National Geographic tells us what it was like being shot in the eye by law enforcement in Portland

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• Trip Jennings, a videographer who has worked with PBS and National Geographic, was shot by law enforcement with a less-lethal round while covering a Black Lives Matter protest in Portland, Oregon.
• Speaking to Business Insider, Jennings recounted the moment that federal agents began firing tear gas and pelting protesters with rubber bullets.
• "I had a helmet on. I had a flak jacket on. As soon as I exposed something that was vulnerable, which was my face, they shot me," Jennings said.
• Jennings was rushed to the hospital by volunteer medics. He said, a day later, that the hemorrhaging in his eye is even worse.
• "I'm hoping there's no permanent damage," he said.
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Trip Jennings doesn't know why law enforcement agents Portland shot him in the head, nor if there will be lasting damage to the eye in which he was struck with a less-lethal round.

But the videographer for PBS and National Geographic fully understands that if this can happen to him — a 6'2" white guy with a fancy camera around his neck; a veteran journalist complying with a police order to disperse — then what about those without that privilege?

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See Also:

• 'Wall of vets' join Portland protests to protect free speech
• Judge restrains federal agents from targeting journalists and legal observers during Portland protests
• DHS employees say Trump deploying federal agents to Portland is a 'blatantly unconstitutional' 'embarrassment'

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