CNN and other outlets reporting that police took a photographer into custody last night for allegedly trying to follow and/or photograph the jury bus. The suspect claimed to be working for MSNBC. The judge banned the network from the courtroom.

CNN’s John King described it as “clown car” journalism.

Judge’s full explanation of the incident. Reporter/produced was following jury bus, stopped after running a red light.

But correct me if I’m wrong here? Trying to follow a jury home? That’s some BS! Cause what’s the next step knock on their front door to interview them? Mother Fucker PLEASE!!!

CNN has signaled they’ll be pivoting away from being a hard left wing outlet. Will be interesting to see if this trend continues.

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“Last night, a freelancer received a traffic citation. While the traffic violation took place near the jury van, the freelancer never contacted or intended to contact the jurors during deliberations, and never photographed or intended to photograph them. We regret the incident and will fully cooperate with the authorities on any investigation.”

You wonder though if he hadn't gotten caught and been able to actually follow one or more jurors to their actual home how that would have gone?

I still watch CNN and MSNBC (and, occasionally Fox) but I know what they are and, unlike most of the morons here, I know when I'm being fed opinion and not news. I take the opinion with a grain of salt even if I happen to agree with it.
Most of what they put on screen are interviews and you can wade through the spin from both left and right and decide for yourself.
As for your jury tampering line, the guy was a freelancer working for MSNBC and claims he was not following the jury van. I'm sure there will be an investigation, so we'll see.

The freelancer immediately copped to following the van and gave Kenosha PD the name of the NBC news producer,  Irene Min Joo Byon, in New York that had given him the assignment. Within hours of the judge naming that producer, she deleted her LinkedIn & Twitter accounts. Irene’s (USC K-Girl, Looks: 7, Performance: ?) pic is posted below.

Robert has already posted NBC’s statement, and I’m posting a key part here:“During deliberations” and “photograph them” are key here. A CourtTV reporter has explained what happened with the freelancer wasn’t uncommon. The goal of the tail is to get the juror’s license plate numbers so that it’s easier to contact the jurors AFTER deliberations.

What’s key in the NBC statement is what is said vs unsaid:
“We never intended to contact the jurors during deliberations”
UNSAID: “our goal was to facilitate contact with them AFTER deliberations.”
SAID:
“and never photographed or attempted to photograph THEM”
UNSAID:
“all we needed was to photograph their license plates”

the never intended to part of the statement?

There is no doubt that if he was trying to identify them in some way photograph them and  find out/figure out where they live.

Now that the trial is over, I expect this story will fade away. But I guess it’s possible that Judge Schroeder could push Kenosha law enforcement to pursue the investigation.