Three people in their seventies say they were attacked by protesters leaving the State Capitol after the Rage Against the Regime rally on Saturday, August 2, with two women having to visit the hospital.
“These people just turned on me on a dime,” says Andrew Moura, a retired photojournalist who was attacked by demonstrators while taking photos of them. “People started to swarm around me like someone set the word on me.”
Moura says he went to the protest to take photos, because he still enjoys photography as a hobby. He showed up late to the protests, at around 5 p.m., but was able to capture photos of law enforcement arriving in armored trucks and tactical gear to move protesters out of the street.
After most protesters and police left, he continued snapping photos of a small group that lingered on Lincoln Street in front of the Capitol. He was quietly taking photos when about fifteen protesters suddenly turned on him, Moura says, noting that they were all dressed head-to-toe in b...
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