{"id":2015836,"date":"2023-08-29T17:23:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T21:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-news-crew-robbed-at-gunpoint-while-reporting-on-robberies\/"},"modified":"2023-08-29T17:24:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T21:24:42","slug":"chicago-news-crew-robbed-at-gunpoint-while-reporting-on-robberies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-news-crew-robbed-at-gunpoint-while-reporting-on-robberies\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago news crew robbed while reporting on robberies."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchicago-news-crew-robbed-at-gunpoint-while-reporting-on-robberies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2015836&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Television News Crew Robbed While Reporting on Chicago Robberies<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A television news crew reporting on a string of \u200brobberies in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/chicago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago<\/a> became the criminals\u2019 next target Monday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Univision Chicago reporter and photographer were robbed at\u2064 gunpoint\u200c by three men in ski masks around \u20625 \u2062a.m. \u200bMonday in the city\u2019s West Town neighborhood,\u200c the Chicago Tribune <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/business\/ct-biz-chicago-tv-news-crew-robbed-20230828-nm6dm6kzabcwbmprlfyyd77cz4-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The Spanish \u200dlanguage \u200bnetwork said the thieves mostly took personal items along \u2062with a camera.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe don\u2019t want to make the story about us, \u200bbecause\u2063 there were other robberies that occurred \u2062within that same\u200d period,\u201d said Luis\u2062 Godinez, \u200dthe vice president of \u200cnews at Univision Chicago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The thieves approached them after driving up\u200c in a gray sedan and black SUV and demanded money from the\u2064 journalists before going through their SUV and taking the camera, a backpack, and two bags of\u200d equipment, according to \u200dRaza Siddiqui, president of the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians Local\u200d 41, the Chicago Sun-Times <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/crime\/2023\/8\/28\/23850057\/chicago-tv-news-crew-robbed-at-gunpoint-while-reporting-on-armed-robberies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u2062The suspects then fled\u2063 in the vehicles after stealing the items. \u2064Police identified the victims as a 28-year-old man and a 42-year-old man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The journalists were\u2062 working on a story about a string of robberies that have affected the West Town neighborhood, but the footage they captured Monday morning never \u2063aired since \u2062it was taken on a \u200bcamera that was stolen,\u200d Godinez said.\u200d No one was\u2063 injured during the robbery and police have so far not placed anyone\u2062 in custody for the crime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThey\u2019re OK,\u201d Godinez said of his employees, adding, \u201cwe\u2019re working on\u2063 it \u2064together as a team.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earlier this month, another Chicago journalist was \u200cassaulted and robbed in\u2063 the \u200dWest Town neighborhood while preparing to report on an afternoon update for WLS-TV. That assault and\u200b robbery prompted union \u200bpresident Siddiqui to warn people about the threats reporters and photographers face on the streets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cOur news\u200d photographers and reporters provide a very <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-requests-47-1-billion-in-emergency-funding-for-covid-ukraine-monkeypox-and-more\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Requests .1 Billion in Emergency Funding for COVID, Ukraine, Monkeypox, and More\">important public service<\/a> in keeping our \u200dcommunity informed,\u201d Siddiqui said, according to the Tribune. \u201cWe are committed to making\u2063 sure that their safety comes first. We have talked to\u2064 the photographer who was robbed today \u200cand he is thankfully safe and in good\u2064 spirits.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chicago \u2064saw \u200da spike in crime shortly after electing its new\u2062 mayor \u200cBrandon \u200dJohnson in May. \u200bVehicle thefts jumped 153%,\u200b aggravated battery was up 17%, and burglary rose 12% in June, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/crime-spikes-38-in-chicago-during-brandon-johnsons-first-month-in-office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">according<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  to The Washington Examiner. Johnson is focusing his energy on fighting the rise in vehicle theft by suing \u200bcar companies\u2063 Kia and Hyundai, alleging \u200dthat their vehicles lack the appropriate anti-theft measures, Fox 32 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/news\/brandon-johnson-kia-lawsuit-car-thefts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe impact of\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/violent-crime-on-the-rise-nationwide-amid-pandemic\/\" title=\"Violent crime on the rise nationwide amid pandemic\">car theft<\/a> \u200con Chicago residents can be deeply destabilizing, particularly\u200b for low- \u200cto\u2064 middle-income\u200b workers\u200d who have fewer options for getting to work and taking care of their\u2064 families,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cThe failure of Kia and Hyundai to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-news-crew-robbed-at-gunpoint-while-reporting-on-robberies\/\" title=\"Chicago news crew robbed while reporting on robberies.\">install basic auto-theft prevention technology<\/a> in these models is sheer negligence, and as a result, a citywide\u200d and nationwide \u200dcrime spree around automobile theft has been unfolding right before\u200d our eyes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A TV news crew covering Chicago robberies were targeted by criminals. Three men in ski masks robbed a Univision Chicago reporter and photographer at gunpoint in the city&#8217;s West Town neighborhood. The incident occurred around 5 a.m. on Monday. Univision confirmed the incident, according to the Chicago Tribune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":2015837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}