While covering the American demonstrations, journalists face assaults and rubber bullets

Journalists in several American cities were hit with rubber bullets, and were assaulted while covering the protests in the United States, protesting the killing of an African American youth by police officers.

The incident remains one of the months when police arrested CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez and handcuffed him during a live broadcast of events in Minneapolis on Friday morning, before being released an hour later.

However, the country witnessed other incidents, especially in Louisville, Kentucky, where a riot police component fired tear gas at a local television team that filmed what happened, and local WAV3 channel correspondent Caitlin Rast screamed, "They are targeting me."

In Minneapolis, independent journalist Linda Terrado announced that she had lost eyes in her eye after she was hit with a rubber bullet.

And Saturday, the Committee to Protect Journalists demanded "the (local) authorities issue orders to their police forces not to target journalists."

Journalists were also not spared the demonstrations' attacks. Photographer Ian Smith confirmed that he was beaten in Pittsburgh, before other demonstrators intervened to help him.

In Atlanta, dozens of people attacked the headquarters of the CNN news network, and threw a sound bomb in the hallway, where there were policemen.

On Saturday morning, protesters in front of the White House fired a Fox News correspondent, and then chased him for hundreds of meters, before police intervened to disperse them.

"If you are demonstrators, do what you think is right, but do not prevent us from doing our work," said a statement to the Society of Professional Journalists.

US President Donald Trump reissued a tweet saying, "It's ironic, CNN's headquarters are being attacked by hooligans that (the network) considered them nobles and rightful."

Since his election as president, Trump has attacked the media and accused it of distorting the facts and fabricating misleading news to offend him, repeatedly accusing the media of being "the enemy of the people", and specializing in CNN.