The man reportedly did not appear to threaten anyone, but asked to speak to specific people at the Times, according to NBC New York. The man complied with security requests to put down the plastic bag containing the weapons and was taken to a local hospital, New York police said. GOP political operative convicted of funneling illegal foreign contributions to Trump campaign, Djokovic gets visa for Australian Open one year after being deported over COVID-19 vaccination This comes as journalists have increasingly become targets of violence in recent years. In perhaps the most high-profile recent attack on members of the US media, five journalists were killed and two others were injured in a 2018 mass shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper’s offices in Annapolis, Md. Outside the newsrooms, several journalists were also attacked and had their equipment damaged in the January 6, 2021 attack on Capitol Hill. And most recently, a Las Vegas elected official was charged in September with allegedly stabbing a local researcher to death after he wrote articles critical of the official.
