CNN political analyst April Ryan said that CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta's life was 'in jeopardy' following Trump supporters' heckling attacks at a rally last month.

While Acosta was on-camera reporting, he was repeatedly taunted, heckled and berated by attendees of President Trump's rally in Tampa, Florida, on July 31.

In a video Acosta posted on Twitter later in the day, the rally crowd could be seen gathered around him and heard booing and chanting 'CNN sucks,' among other things.

CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta was aggressively heckled and berated by Trump supporters at a rally in Tampa, Florida on July 31

A sign-holding woman was seen flipping off Acosta and pointing and shouting 'you stuck at him' multiple times during one 45 second video Acosta captured at the event

At various points in the clip, individuals could be seen waving the middle finger at the camera. One man shouted 'stop lying, tell the truth' and another man smugly gestured to a t-shirt bearing the slogan, 'F**k the media.'

A woman in a pink, plaid dress can be seen purposely moving forward so that she can aggressively point at Acosta and flip him off, while screaming 'You suck' directly at him. She repeated her actions every time the camera panned over her.

'Just a sample of the sad scene we faced at the Trump rally in Tampa,' Acosta wrote in the tweet. 'I’m very worried that the hostility whipped up by Trump and some in conservative media will result in somebody getting hurt.'

When talking about the incident later on CNN, Acosta said, 'Honestly it felt like we weren't in America anymore. America's should not be treating their fellow Americans in this way.'

Just a sample of the sad scene we faced at the Trump rally in Tampa. I’m very worried that the hostility whipped up by Trump and some in conservative media will result in somebody getting hurt. We should not treat our fellow Americans this way. The press is not the enemy. pic.twitter.com/IhSRw5Ui3R — Jim Acosta (@Acosta) August 1, 2018

A Trump supporter smugly showed off his t-shirt bearing a 'F**k the media' slogan in Florida

The day after the Florida rally, CNN analyst April Ryan said that Acosta's life had been 'in jeopardy' and that there had been a 'safety issue'

Acosta has faced harassment before. Here, at a June 25 rally for South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, attended by Trump, he is heckled as a man holds a 'CNN sucks' sign

Acosta also said that Trump 'is whipping these crowds up into a frenzy to the point where they really want to come after us,' and noted that he and other journalists were standing behind metal barricades 'to protect us from people who might take things to far.'

The day after the rally, April Ryan, a CNN political analyst and American Urban Radio Networks' White House Correspondent said, 'That’s a serious moment and a serious place. And Jim Acosta’s life, in my opinion, was in jeopardy that night,' during an on-air segment with CNN's Don Lemon Wednesday night.

Ryan went on to say 'there was a safety issue,' while noting that White House Press Secretary received a Secret Service detail after a restaurant owner in Lexington, Virginia, told her to leave in June.

'She gets taxpayer-funded security for something that she stokes. But yet, it's OK. It's freedom of speech for us,' she said, referring to the heckling journalists face while covering rallies and other events.

Ryan also said, 'This president, President Donald. J. Trump has stoked the flames for reporters to feel like their lives, their safety, their lives are in jeopardy at these rallies.'

Neither Lemon nor Ryan thought Sanders should not have the Secret Service protection, but floated the idea that journalists now need some form of protection as well, in light of the animus they encounter in public from Trump supporters.

Ryan noted that she had had occasionally contentious interactions with press secretaries under George W. Bush and Barack Obama, but that it was 'never personal.'

'This has now gone beyond politics,' Ryan said. 'This has gone into life. This has gone into changing lives.'