BBC cameraman is attacked at Donald Trump rally, triggering condemnation by UK foreign secretary
- The British broadcaster is asking the White House to review security arrangements after a cameraman was shoved by a man who invaded the rally’s media platform
- The attack came as the president criticised the media over its supposed bias against him
Britain’s foreign secretary has condemned an attack on a BBC cameraman at a Donald Trump rally in Texas which resulted in the UK’s national broadcaster asking the White House for a review of security arrangements.
BBC cameraman Ron Skeans was pushed and shoved by a Trump supporter yelling anti-media slogans during the US president’s rally in El Paso, Texas, late Monday.
Skeans was unhurt and the man, who was wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, was restrained by a blogger for the pro-Trump outlet Frontline America and removed from the media riser.
Paul Danahar, the BBC’s Americas bureau editor, said in a tweet that he had asked White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders for a “full review of security arrangements after last night’s attack.”
“Access into the media area was unsupervised,” Danahar said. “No one in law enforcement intervened before, during or after the attack.”