When fans began throwing things onto the field at the end of a soccer game in Las Rosas, a police officer began shooting rubber bullets, two of which wounded journalist Alberto Leichner, according to Datasantafe.com in Argentina.
According to that article, Leichner was taken to the hospital, where the bullet that entered behind his ear was removed, but doctors have not yet removed the bullet that entered his forehead.
Adrián Beagle, owner of Radio Las Parejas, said that of the 40 officers on the field, only one fired shots, the article said.
Watch a video of the incident here.
Note from the editor: This story was originally published by the Knight Center’s blog Journalism in the Americas, the predecessor of LatAm Journalism Review.
