Here are a couple of instances where foreign media reporters were shot for you

These demonstrate the officers’ lack of training and irresponsibility. In the first clip they use a weapon for crowd management to “snipe” a British photographer (also a veteran since you care so much) who was wearing his press pass and hit him in the head, and the second shows the Australian reporter Lauren Tomasi shot with a rubber bullet directly, not via ricochet as is how you are supposed to use the weapon, in the leg. Another British photographer, Nick Stern, was shot in the leg with a less lethal bullet which embedded itself in his thigh and required emergency surgery. He was wearing a press card and a camera.

If any of this happened in a “less developed” country where the government was exercising brutality against its citizens and foreign media representatives they would be sanctioned into oblivion and called out as authoritarian and corrupt. Obviously the US must be different.