India, June 9 -- Australian journalist Lauren Tomasi, US correspondent for Nine News, was hit by a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) rubber bullet while covering the LA protests over the weekend.

In a video that has surfaced online, Tomasi can be seen reporting outside the Metropolitan Detention Centre in downtown Los Angeles when a rubber bullet struck her as officers began dispersing protesters. Watch the incident that was caught live on air.

"After hours of standing off, this situation has now rapidly deteriorated, the LAPD moving in on horseback, firing rubber bullets at protesters, moving them on through the heart of LA," she said on air just moments before being hit by the rubber bullet.

Just as she went on covering the protes...