The recent truck ramming attack on the building of the Fox 4 KDFW broadcaster in the southern US city of Dallas demonstrates the significance of creating a safe environment in which journalists can do their job, Harlem Desir, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's (OSCE) representative on freedom of the media, said on Thursday.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 06th September, 2018) The recent truck ramming attack on the building of the Fox 4 KDFW broadcaster in the southern US city of Dallas demonstrates the significance of creating a safe environment in which journalists can do their job, Harlem Desir, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's (OSCE) representative on freedom of the media, said on Thursday.
The incident took place around 7 a.m. (12:00 GMT) on Wednesday. The broadcaster reported that a man in an agitated mental state, subsequently identified by the authorities as Michael Chadwick Fry, 34, had repeatedly smashed his truck into the floor-to-ceiling windows building, where the television station was located. The man also placed boxes filled with stacks of paper next to the office building and left a suspicious bag at the scene. Fry was subsequently taken into custody and charged with criminal mischief.
"Concerned by yesterday's intentional driving of a truck into @Fox4 news offices in Dallas #USA, fortunately no casualties or injuries. Welcome swift response by police. This new attack against a media outlet shows the importance of creating a safe environment for journalists," Desir wrote on Twitter.
The Fox 4 KDFW incident comes just one week after the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said it had arrested a 68-year-old man in the US state of California for making threats against employees of the Boston Globe newspaper.
