| Michigan Photographer Assaulted Outside Mosque
Sounds like a great bunch of citizens at this Mosque... Quote:
etroit -- Police are investigating the assault of a Detroit News photographer outside a mosque whose leader was killed during a shootout with FBI agents Wednesday.
A group of men attacked photographer Ricardo Thomas about 6:30 p.m. outside the mosque on Clairmont at Holmur.
The attack lasted about 30 seconds and damaged camera equipment Thomas carried with him. The men returned to the mosque, but had left by the time police arrived.
"They told him to stop taking pictures; he said, 'I'm just doing my job,' and then they set upon him," said reporter Charlie LeDuff, who witnessed the assault.
Thomas, whose lip was split and glasses broken, drove himself to a hospital for treatment.
Jonathan Wolman, editor and publisher of The Detroit News, called the incident "outrageous."
"Ricardo is a consummate professional who was shooting photos across from the mosque, on public property," he said.
"He was roughed up and his cameras were stomped to the ground without provocation, and we understand police are talking to witnesses and reviewing this outrageous incident."
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