Anderson Cooper attacked: CNN reporter, Anderson Cooper, was attacked by Mubarak supporters in Cairo as crowds punched and kicked Cooper and camera operator, and ripped at clothes of female crew member.
CNN anchor and reporter, Anderson Cooper, was attacked in Cairo, Wednesday.
Cooper and his team were walking in Tahrir square through a large crowd of Mubarak supporters when the scene turned ugly. The crowd had let him walk for several minutes into the square when one man leaped out of the crowd, screaming, and attempted to grab the camera.
When he then began to attack Cooper’s crew, people in the crowd began to join in, at which point the team decided to leave the square.
They began walking away from the group who had begun the assault on them, but as they walked out of the square, various other groups rushed towards them, shouting, punching, and kicking the crew.
Cooper can be heard in video saying “I’ve been hit now, like, ten times,” and “the Egyptian soldiers are doing nothing.
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