A police video of the encounter between the Kenosha, Wis., police department and NBC freelancer James Morrison last month shows an NBC producer seeming to admit she instructed Morrison to follow a vehicle holding jury members in the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial.
The video, taken on the night of Nov. 17 during deliberations in the closely watched trial, showed police questioning Morrison as to why he was following the vehicle, and reprimanding booking producer Irene Byon via phone for instructing him to do so.
A sign is pictured outside NBC headquarters at Rockefeller Center in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., January 16, 2020. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
“So were you following a vehicle?” the officer asked Morrison in the video, after he identified himself as a “producer” for NBC.
“I was trying to see – I was being called by New York going, maybe these are the people you need to follow, but I don’t know, I was trying to –” Morrison said, before the officer interrupted him asking, “You were trying to what?”
Byon and NBC News didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Brandon Gillespie is an associate editor at Fox News. Follow him on X at @BGillespieAL.
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