It was about 30 seconds or more before they realized they hit the actual person of color rather than the cameraman,” says Chapman, who says she was hit 20 times in her head, thighs and chest before yelling from the assembled mob to stop the hitting. “I took a lot of blows cause I was the one being stumped on and it was constant for 30 seconds. Within seconds, Chapman sprinted to stop the blows, jumping on Smith’s head and protecting him. “I knew the only way this person wouldn’t be hurt was if I got up on top of them.” Chaos started playing a role into it,” says Chapman, describing Smith being beaten. “People rushed in to see what was happening or pull them. The fight quickly escalated as another group of nearby activists hopped in and four other activists, both black and white, quickly rushed in. “You can’t blame them for trying to get the footage.”
“You can’t blame the cameraman for doing his job description, you can’t,” says Chapman, who would like to work in television.
I could have been killed,” Smith told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.Īnd while Chapman disagreed with the decision of Smith to film the vandalism, she was worried about the possibility that the cameraman would get violently attacked to keep him recording. Then, a mob of protestors descended on Smith, beating him up and smashing his camera. At which point, he fell and several protestors began beating him.Īn unidentified black woman attempted to protect Smith and block a white protestor attacking Smith, according to a photo taken by Pittsburgh Penguins Vice President Kevin Acklin.
Smith said he quickly felt overwhelmed by the protestors lunging at him. “They didn’t want a white man dictating what was shown, and I knew at the end of the day, I knew it was KDKA and they would spin it different ways - they had racist profiles before and that’s why people didn’t trust them.” “I did believe they were justified taking the camera,” she says. They weren’t trying to touch him, they just were trying to get the footage,” says Chapman of the four protestors confronting Smith. “They were trying to prevent him from getting footage. On Saturday, she suddenly spotted the altercation between Smith and a mixed race group of protestors, who objected to Smith filming the protest. Recently, she left journalism school after others had told her that her accent as a Puerto Rican was too thick. Army reservist in Aviation operations administration, and a native of Fajarado, a port city, a little over an hour east of San Juan.Ī black Puerto Rican, she initially moved to Pittsburgh to study journalism at Point Park University four years ago and moonlights on the side at bars around the Steel City as a drag queen. Multiple activists, both black and white, asked Smith to stop filming people of color engaging in vandalizing of a police car.ĭrag Queen Alexa Chapman was behind them near the entrance to the PPG Arena.Īt 5 ft.
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– Late on Saturday afternoon, outside of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ hockey stadium, a crowd of left-leaning protesters brutally beat Ian Smith, a white KDKA TV cameraman, within fear of his life.