It appears the new normal has reached peak 'consequence-free'-ness. As South African reporter Vuyo Mvoko prepared for his live TV report - standing in front of a camera, bright lights, and various cameramen and crew - two armed men decided it was an opportune time for a mugging... and the whole farcical and dangerous scene was caught on tape...
"Caught" on tape...
As Sky News reports [4],
Armed men have been caught on camera mugging a journalist as he was about to give a live TV report in South Africa.
Vuyo Mvoko was seconds away from going on air outside Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg on Tuesday night.
Two men, one apparently armed with a gun, accosted the reporter as he was about to give an update on Zambian President Edgar Lungu's condition.
A scuffle follows and Mvoko is heard saying: "Hey, we're being mugged!"
Mvoko, who works for the South African Broadcasting Corporation, said afterwards: "He was looking for the phone.
"And when I wasn't giving him the phone, he calls the other one who has a gun, to say 'shoot this dog' or something like that.
"So I gave him the phone."
The robbers took two mobile phones and a laptop computer from the TV crew.
The South African National Editors' Forum appealed to anyone who recognised the men to contact police.
"Every South African lives with the reality of crime, but to see thugs brazenly ignoring television cameras and robbing media workers in the course of their work yet again brings home the level of criminality in our society," a spokesman said.
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When crime is so blatant, something is wrong.
