A local CBS Los Angeles reporter was temporarily blinded after she was hit with tear gas while reporting on protests against ICE raids in the city Saturday night.

An increasingly distressed Lauren Pozen was on the air as the gas dispersed. Her colleagues in the studio asked her to find somewhere safe to report from after she told them, “We have tear gas, we have fireworks going off, tear gas is in the air, people are dispersing. I can’t see anything. I’m sorry, I can’t see anything.”

Pozen continued to cough until the network cut to footage being filmed from a helicopter. She returned to the air approximately three-and-a-half minutes later.

“Things happened so quickly out here,” Pozen said. “My back was turned to the camera and all of a sudden, we heard that big boom. And, of course, th

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