Newly released bodycam footage of the police shows us that the NBC producer seen tailing the jury bus in the Kyle Rittenhouse case was following orders from New York higher-ups. The second producer also admits to the video that multiple others were present at the Kenosha courthouse keeping tabs on the direction of the jurors.
As NewsBustersPrevious reportsOn November 17, James G. Morrison, NBC/MSNBC producer was stopped by Kenosha Police for running a red lights while following the Rittenhouse juror bus. This incident prompted Judge Bruce Schroeder, the judge in chief to expel MSNBC from his courtroom.
In response to the incident, NBC issued the following statement, which as RedState Media’s Nick Arama These are the points, appears to have been “very carefully-worded:”
Yesterday night, a freelancer was given a traffic ticket. Although the violation occurred near the jury van’s vehicle, the freelancer did not contact or intend to contact jurors. He also never took photographs of them. We are sorry for the accident and we will be fully cooperating with any authorities investigating it.
This lame and unapologetic non-apology ended up getting a terrible age in light of newly released body cam footage that the Kenosha County Eye obtained through a FOIA request.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2-eoaAEnfw
Morrison admits to the camera that he had been instructed by New York-based network top brass to take the bus. He then puts the officers in touch with NBC producer Irene Byon, who admits without being prompted that she is aware there are jurors aboard the bus: “By no means were they trying to get in contact with any of the jury members – or whoever was in the car.”
The oversharing continues: “We just had our people positioned in different areas of the courthouse to see if anyone would be able to, um…” Byon trails off there, perhaps realizing she’s just volunteered some very incriminating information.
Thanks to the video, it was revealed that NBC had many reporters stationed in the courthouse solely for the purpose of following the bus leaving the premises. Without accusing anyone of anything, let’s ask the obvious question here: what possible reason could a journalist have for chasing after the jury bus, unless they were hoping to learn the jurors’ identities?
Before the video ends, the officer asks that Morrison kindly stop endangering the jury of a nationally-publicized court case: “We’re going to ask you guys to not do that. That’s a concern here. This is huge. We can’t afford anything crazy happening. [You’re] putting people in dangerous positions. This individual violated some traffic laws here doing this, so we’re going to ask you guys to refrain from doing that.”
It’s no wonder MSNBC got banned from the trial. These individuals could have been put in grave danger if NBC had succeeded in exposing any juror’s identity.
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