CNN’s Ed Lavandera was knocked to the ground during a live shot from Charlotte, North Carolina Wednesday by a protester calling on him “to tell the truth.”
The incident occurred during Anderson Cooper 360 at around 9:15 p.m., when Lavandera was on-air covering the second night of chaos in Charlotte, which erupted after a police officer fatally shot Keith Lamont Scott on Tuesday.
Lavandera was not hurt.
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Calling the incident “another odd moment in this surreal evening here,” Lavandera later said that he didn’t see the assault coming. “All I heard was someone yelling at me that I had to ‘tell the truth’ and the next thing you know I got kind of blindsided,” he said.
A man claiming to be the attacker later came up to Lavandera, gave him a hug, and apologized for what he had done, he said. But when asked what made him so angry, the man “didn’t really explain anything,” Lavandera said.
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