TV Reporter Gets Kicked in Stomach While Covering Coral Gables High Stabbing

This is a bit of a leftover from yesterday, but a reporter from the Tribune Co.-owned WSFL was trying to get an interview with the father of a Coral Gables High student in the wake of Tuesday's stabbing. His daughter is allegedly the girl who the two boys were fighting...

By Kyle Munzenrieder

September 18, 2009

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This is a bit of a leftover from yesterday, but a reporter from the Tribune Co.-owned WSFL was trying to get an interview with the father of a Coral Gables High student in the wake of Tuesday's stabbing. His daughter is allegedly the girl who the two boys were fighting over. The man answers the reporter's question with a swift kick to the stomach.

Violence is never the answer, but you have to figure something like this is going to happen once in a while when you shove cameras in the faces of people who are probably going through a bit of an emotional shock. [h/t to SFLTV]

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