Hanna Zoey Tur (born Robert Albert Tur, June 8, 1960) is an American broadcast reporter[1] and commercial pilot who operated the freelance news company Los Angeles News Service with fellow reporter and then-wife Marika Gerrard.
[citation needed] Tur and her then-wife Marika Gerrard captured video of the attack on Reginald Denny during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
[5][6] Tur successfully sued another news agency for copyright infringement for using their footage of the 1992 L.A. riots without authorization,[7] and later attempted to sue YouTube for hosting the same video on its site.
[13] In 1991, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) revoked Tur's pilot's license for "reckless flying" after a complaint from the Los Angeles City Fire Department.
[4] In 1994, a California Superior Court ruled against the Los Angeles Fire Department for suborning perjury in the original FAA action, awarding $550,000 and ruling that "public employees are not immune from liability for malicious prosecution if they instigate the prosecution through fraudulent, corrupt or malicious misrepresentations".
The series features archival footage as well as Tur's recollections of covering the 1992 Los Angeles riots in episode 2 and of the June 17, 1994 police chase of O. J.
But Bob Tur was so much a part of my life that I felt if we wanted to move on and become something new, we’d have to confront it.” [26][27] During a TMZ video chat in the summer of 2013, Tur described her understanding of one practical impact of the changes in her brain over the course of her hormone replacement therapy in piloting terms.
"[28] In July 2015, while on Dr. Drew On Call talking about Caitlyn Jenner accepting the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPY Awards ceremony, political commentator Ben Shapiro questioned her genetics and called Tur "sir", to which Tur responded by grabbing the back of Shapiro's neck and telling him to stop or he would "be going home in an ambulance.