So tell me, ...what did this guy do to deserve it?

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37. Well, he is a photo journalist for one of the best organizations that often send their

photo journalist into war zones. According to the link in this thread he works for Getty Images.

We know that because of the treatment of journalists by the police since this movement began, arrests, confiscation of equipment, injuries, detention even when they show their press cards, Doctors Without Borders have filed a complaint with the US Government, something they mostly have to do in dictatorships, rarely in first world democracies. And, because of these abuses of journalists, US ranking on the list of the World's Free Press has plummeted to around #47. So filming these protests has become nearly as hazardous for journalists as filming in war zones.

Considering all of that, combined with the threat by the police to 'crack some skulls' (caught on video) at the protests, and CNN's and other news media footage of the police actually carrying out that thread, we can draw a conclusion that he was most like one of the many who was beaten with a police baton.

Of course a professional photo-journalist like him, probably with experience in war zones, could have simply punched himself in the face.