Orlando -Dylan Lions’s Family -Spectral News 13 reporters killed by 2023 shooting at Pine Hills -protected journalists who accused the employer to be negligent and caught violent crime. We raised doubts about the responsibility of the news organization.
The 24 -year -old Lions was among the television news crew covering the killing of Natacha Augustine (38) on February 22, 2023. Keith Moses, who was said to have shot Jesse Walden, a News 13 camera Opelator, was later arrested and was charged with the murder of Lions and Augustin and 9 -year -old T’YONNA Major.
“It may have happened to anyone,” Mark Najime, who is at the forefront of the lawsuit, told the reporters on Wednesday. Lions’ parents did not attend a press conference.
According to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday night, Charter Communications, the parent company of NEWS 13, was responsible for providing the appropriate safety device to the staff while working on the spot. In addition, the company claimed that “appropriate risk evaluation” should have been implemented before sending Lyon to Pine Hills.
“We are talking about having security guards and being given a basic bulletproof checko that can be purchased on Amazon,” said Ryan Vescio, one of NEJAME’s legal partners.
Legal applications on Tuesday are prior to related litigation this week, which is expected to blame orange County Sheriff’s illegal death office. SPECTRUM NEWS’s spokesman was called Lyons’ death and “an unexpected terrible tragedy,” but opposed the claims mentioned in the lawsuit.
“I hope Keith Moses, who has been prosecuted, will be able to make a trial immediately for the killing of Dylan and others that day,” said Spokesman. “Regarding these specific claims, Dylan was a victim of meaningless violence. There is no basis for billing for Spectrum News. We will reject them.”
When a reporter arrived near the killed of Augustin on Harrington Drive and Hylare Street, the agent was still looking for perpetrators. According to the case, Moses shot her behind his head while in the back seat of his car.
Immediately after the authorities defeated the crime scene and left, Moses appeared from the house that shot Tayona after the invasion. They later said they approached Lyon’s news van, fired, killed reporters, and injured Walden. Walden is not nominated as a party to the lawsuit.
Moses’ trial will be held in September. If he is guilty, he will face the death penalty.
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Lions’ lawyers make important questions: what kind of responsibilities do they need to keep their responsibilities safely? The filing quotes some research on this issue, including 2017 surveys by the Dart Journalism Center at Colombia University.
Nejam explained the lawsuit as “groundbreaking”, and filing emphasized several cases where journalists were shot while working, one of which was injured by the enforcement agency. It also quotes the safety training curriculum of the industry announced by the Safety Linance culture.
“Such training should have been given and not,” said Nejame that the reporter should be a potential option to refuse dangerous issues. “And it should not be part of a culture that harms you.”
SPECTRUM NEWS and Orlando Sentinel are not one of the scores of news organizations and defenders around the world that support the curriculum. Miami Herald is the only outlet based in Florida.
The US Press Free Dam Tracker has recorded 322 instances that reporters were shot during the past decade. These cases have filed a lawsuit, and all of them have caused all of them to the law enforcement agencies for reporters who cover protests.
A news organization was sued in only one incident. This is a 2018 newsroom massacre in a capital gazette that killed five journalists. The shooting survivor accused the newspaper and the sun in Baltimoa as illegal death and negligence, and claimed to be prevented.
Both sides reached a private settlement agreement in January 2023.
