[Leica] Mayday Protests 2001 rescanned and re-edited

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Brian Stevens showed "being in the middle!"
Subject: [Leica] Mayday Protests 2001 rescanned and re-edited

Hi Brian,
Well done and once again you show you've got the guts to stay the course
right in the middle of the demo.

My biggest fear in these type of encounters was some SOB punching me out
while I had the camera to my one good eye and possibly loosing my site all
together.

I mean when the camera is at your eye and we're concentrating on what's
going on is when we're at our most vulnerable, particularly if you're
working alone and not with a writer or an assistant to kind of guard your
back while shooting.

My good fortune is in all my years of covering demonstrations I only got
punched once and that was to the side of the head and not to the face, but
it did leave me with one hell of a headache for a couple of days.

However, the writer I was working with happened to be 6' 7" and weighed in
like a football line backer and retaliated like a bolt of lightening. So the
fellow who hit me received a quick couple of fast ones before anyone
realized who did it. I'm sure he must have had a bigger head ache than I for
several days.

We of course made our way out of the middle of the " mob" right smartly and
began covering it from the peripheral area, as he was sure we would've been
set upon if we'd stayed. :-) Besides my head was ringing like an alarm
clock.

ted