New York (CNN Business) The final photos journalist Linda Tirado took around midnight on May 30, while covering the protests in Minneapolis, show what appears to be a police officer aiming a foam bullet gun right at her. Shortly after, Tirado was hit in the face with a foam bullet, which broke the goggles she was wearing and left her permanently blind in one eye. "There were protesters behind me, police in front of me, but you can see from the clarity of the photo that there wasn't gas around us," Tirado, a freelance journalist and author , told CNN's Brian Stelter on "Reliable Sources" Sunday. "There's no way that they could have mistaken me — with a professional camera — for anything but working press," she said. Now Tirado is suing the City of Minneapolis, its police chief and others over her injury.

Source: CNN June 14, 2020 20:15 UTC