Nick Stern to undergo surgery for wound sustained during the standoff between police and anti-Ice protesters
Nick Stern, a British news photographer based in Los Angeles, is set to undergo emergency surgery for a wound sustained during the standoff between police and anti-Ice protesters in Los Angeles on Saturday.
Stern told the Guardian he had been covering the protest near a branch of Home Depot in Paramount, where immigrants workers are typically hired for day work, when he felt a sharp pain in his leg.
“I’m walking around taking photos and was untouched until around 9pm. I was walking across the road when I felt a mighty pain in my leg. I put my hand down and felt a lump kind of sticking out the back of my leg,” he said.
Stern believes he was likely hit my a non-lethal round that deputies were using along with flash-bang stun grenades for crowd control.
