Kiev isn’t the only part of the world protesting this week, protestors in Venezuela have been standing up against the government of President Nicolas Maduro. Since protests began in Venezuela, there have been five fatalities, the most recent one today after one protestors was fatally shot in the head. The opposition leader, Leopoldo Lopez, turned himself in to authorities yesterday, and is currently facing trial on charges of terrorism and murder. And covering the protests is turning into a very rough and arduous task, as one CNN reporter revealed that his crew’s equipment was taken at gunpoint by plainclothes police officers.

Karl Penhaul explained the “difficulty of covering this story on the street” by recanting how “a group of armed thugs” motorcycled through the crowd and eventually set their eyes on the CNN team.

“The men on motorcycles rounded on us, the next thing I knew I was staring down the barrel of a chrome-plated nine-millimeter pistol and three armed men then proceeded to rob our crew of all the camera gear, all the transition gear as well.”

They later learned those were most likely plainclothes cops.

Watch the video below, via CNN:

[h/t HotAir]

[photo via screengrab]

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