This story is being published in partnership with the Center for Media and Democracy .

In the weeks since President Donald Trump targeted American cities for “the single largest Mass Deportation Program in history” and deployed U.S. troops to the streets of Los Angeles , federal and local law enforcement officers have repeatedly assaulted and seriously injured journalists, legal observers, and protesters, according to filings in a federal lawsuit.

That violent conduct by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents is “ongoing,” “sustained,” and “officially sanctioned,” plaintiffs claim in LA Press Club v. DHS , which is scheduled to be heard before a judge on August 25.

The evidence marshaled in the case shows “serious threats to journalists coming in the form of completely

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