LISTEN: Journalists Attacked While Reporting Live In Detroit

DETROIT, MI — Several local journalists were reportedly attacked while on the scene of a crime in Detroit Thursday morning, according to reports. The journalists were from WXYZ-TV (Channel 7) and WWJ-AM (950) and are reportedly safe after being attacked by the same suspect during an assignment on Detroit’s west side.

WWJ reported that at about 6 a.m. a suspect came up to the station's car and struck the windshield and driver’s-side window with a baton while the station’s reporter, Mike Campbell, was in the middle of a live report on a fatal pedestrian crash at Dexter Avenue and Davison Street.

Campbell said in a report that he had put the windows up because he had started his report and saw the man walking in front of the truck. The man was saying “foul words,” Campbell said, and “apparently, just, something angered him. He turned around and attacked the news truck."

"My truck just got hit by a bat and I'm sorry, guys, I've gotta go," Campbell said while reporting live.

WXYZ reporter Nia Harden and photojournalist Mike Krotche were also on the scene and were approached by the man, who, the station reports, smashed the windshield and damaged the side mirror of the their live truck.

@NiaHardenWXYZ and photojournalist Mike Krotche were attacked this morning while covering a story on Detroit's west side. Thankfully, neither of them were injured.https://t.co/nM9FBzO9aJ
— WXYZ Detroit (@wxyzdetroit) August 2, 2018

None of the journalists were injured in the attacks.

The man reportedly attacked police during his arrest, striking and injuring an officer with a piece of concrete. He now faces felony charges.

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