A CNN correspondent began coughing and struggled to continue a live report on Friday after being hit during clashes between protesters and federal officers outside an ICE detention facility in downtown Los Angeles.

CNN’s Sara Sidner, covering the aftermath of Saturday’s fatal shooting of a demonstrator in Minneapolis, struggled to breathe on air after tear gas was deployed.

Former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested in connection with a Minneapolis protest at a church in January, and the network discussed the breaking news on its morning program

CNN Newsroom. Based in the network’s New York bureau, Baldwin came to the CNN and HLN networks in 2008. Baldwin has been in the nerve center – from the field and behind the anchor desk -- during countless breaking news events at CNN.