cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36829430
Dean Moses, an amNewYork video journalist, was at 26 Federal Plaza on the 12th floor and documented two women getting into an elevator, followed by masked agents. As he captured the video, one of the agents cursed at Moses. The agent then shoved Moses out of the elevator and towards the group of a dozen journalists and camera crews.
“I walked into the elevator behind them, and they started screaming at me," Moses told amNewYork. “Then they pushed me, grabbed me by my arms, and started pulling me out of the elevator. I tried to hold on, but I got shoved out.”
Witnesses said that another agent pushed freelance photojournalist Olga Fedorova from the hallway onto the floor.
“I just knew that I had to try to get photos of whatever is happening,” Fedorova told The New York Times. “It was incredibly quick.”
A third journalist, L. Vural Elibol, was injured after he was found on the floor — but it remains unclear how he ended up on the floor. Fedorova told The New York Times that when she saw him on the floor, his camera was next to him and still on. “He was covering his face and he was moaning in pain and he was unable to move,” she said.