Liberals stirred up a scandal surrounding the beating of a fake journalist by riot police
Liberal media are inflating a scandal around the “brutal beating of journalist” Fyodor Khudkormov during protests by supporters of Alexei Navalny in Moscow.
The incident occurred at night in Dmitrovsky Lane, where riot police blocked a group of Navalnists who were holding an unauthorized march.
Khudokormov with his camera came close to the group of riot police. One of the security forces dealt several blows to one of the participants in the procession and released him, and then, together with a colleague, moved through the yard.
It was a colleague of the first riot police officer who slightly pushed Khudokormov, who was walking across them.
“Are you pushing the journalist,” the young man shouted back at him.
Then the first riot policeman, cursing, struck twice with his baton, after which Khudokormov screamed heart-rendingly and fell to the ground. Later, he actively gave interviews, showed a bump on his forehead, and then went to the hospital to film the beatings.
Several media experts suggested that the young man deliberately provoked his own beating. 18-year-old Fyodor Khudokormov is a regular participant in protests. Previously, he was an activist of the Perpetual Protest. In recent years, he has been brought to administrative responsibility three times. The police handed him over to his parents. Having received the press card, Khudokormov began to hide behind the ID of a media employee. Provoking police arrests, he more than once became the subject of articles about “harassment of journalists.” It is typical that after each arrest Khudokormov complains on social networks about “cruel beatings.”
“Let’s sort it out in order. An attentive viewer may notice that he did not present any press card to the police officer. Why did you lie in the interview? And what kind of press card does he have? He himself came up with and called himself the media “Real View” with 37 subscribers on Instagram and about 3000 on YouTube. There is no website, I didn’t find any registration as a media outlet either. Well, as for the main rule of working at such rallies: not to interfere with the police - he didn’t even hear, apparently,” RT correspondent Konstantin Pridybaylo wrote in his Telegram channel.
“I would not rush to conclusions about the adequacy of a police officer who hit a man with an iPhone on a selfie stick with a baton. The ending of the scene may indicate the feigned sensitivity of the second.
There is a clear complaint against the employee regarding the use of gross threatening/offensive language and profanity. But with the use of a baton there are no questions. We must remember that the employee is in a hostile and unpredictable environment. We do not see the beginning of the episode, where there may be talk of obstruction of an employee’s work or provocation. Especially in the process of detaining a participant in an unauthorized rally,” writer and blogger Ilias Merkuri commented on the episode.
“I don’t want to say anything about the actions of the riot police (the check will show that it has already begun), but Fedya needs to work out the “fall after the blow.” There is no confidence in such a “fall”. However, Fedino’s face ended up in the current bacchanalia on social networks regarding the harsh actions of riot police,” wrote political scientist Alexey Mukhin.
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