Newly released footage from police body cameras shows that the NBC producer who was seen following the jury bus during the Kyle Rittenhouse trial is acting under orders from New York’s higher-ups. In the same video, a second producer confesses that multiple employees of the network were stationed around Kenosha’s courthouse in order to monitor where jurors are heading.
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. The traffic violation was committed near the jury van. However, the freelancer didn’t contact, or even intend to, jurors at deliberations. They were also not photographed. We are sorry for the accident and will be fully cooperating with any authorities investigating it.
This lame and unapologetic non-apology ended up getting terribly old in the 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 later admits that he was told by New York network executives to follow 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.
This video reveals that NBC had several reporters stationed at the courthouse with the sole purpose of following it as it leaves the site. 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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