One of their idiot producers had one of their idiot grunts tail the jury bus like he was the fucking Brother Seamus from Big Lebowski. Spooked the cops and now Schroeder says they're barred from the courthouse.
Good God this whole thing is just peak distilled collapsing empire insanity
I don't get it? Is it illegal to follow the bus or something?
The reporter guy ran a red light in following the bus I guess, and there's been guns and fights outside the courthouse. Cops are on edge.
https://www.channel3000.com/man-claiming-to-be-cable-news-producer-ticketed-for-following-rittenhouse-jury-bus/
Seems the cops are on a power trip. I'd assume the cops goal is to fuel the perception that the jury is 'under threat' for doing their job.
"Last night a person who is alleging to be affiliated with a national media outlet..." I'm not buying that the police could not verify this within minutes.
I think its telling they arrested two people who got into a minor scuffle yesterday on the courthouse steps, but the right-wing guy who showed up with an assault rifle they just politely asked to put the gun away.
Well yeah, he was white
And an ex-cop. Professional courtesy and all.
They are under threat if the media is stalking them outside the courtroom. There is no good reason why a member of the press needs to be tracking down jury members, during a trial, outside of the courtroom.
Cops are edging
It's generally ill-advised to do anything at all that involves the jury no matter who you are tbh.
This trial is a circus clownshow, but MSNBC and the rest of cable news are clownshow organizations that have clownshow behavior like this. I don't think there's anything particularly "journalistic" about following the jury bus like paparazzi.
damn, I thought there was a guy in a trench-coat with a notebook watching everyone all the time in case news happened? How far journalism has fallen