Body camera footage of an MSNBC producer admitting to following a jury vehicle for the Kyle Rittenhouse case was released Tuesday.
The footage, filmed on Nov. 17, shows Officer Jerel Jones-Denson confronting MSNBC producer James Morrison, with Morrison admitting someone from NBC’s New York office told him that “these might be the people that you need to follow.” Jones-Denson then asked Morrison whether he could call the person who sent him, a New York-based NBC producer named Irene Byon, according to the footage from Law&Crime Network.
"We were just trying to, respectfully, just trying to see if it's possible to find any leads about the case," Byon told Jones-Denson over the phone, stammering over her words. "And so we were just keeping our distance, just to see, like, where people involved in the trial are positioned."
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Byon maintained they were not trying to get in contact with any of the jury members on the bus.
Jones-Denson asked the two not to follow the bus, saying "we can't afford anything crazy happening," after which Byon and Morrison said they were "very sorry" for their intrusion.
Judge Bruce Schroeder, who presided over the Rittenhouse case, kicked MSNBC out of the remainder of the trial on Nov. 18 after Morrison was caught following the jury's bus. Schroeder called MSNBC's actions "an extremely serious matter."
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Rittenhouse was acquitted on five charges on Nov. 18 by a jury in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after he fatally shot two men and wounded a third during a riot last year. Rittenhouse argued he had acted in self-defense.
Representatives for MSNBC did not respond to the Washington Examiner's request for comment.