Minnesota protester tells CNN reporter to 'get away from here with that media s**t'
CNN correspondent Sara Sidner was interrupted Monday night while reporting on the protests in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota following the police killing of Daunte Wright on Sunday. The man who interrupted Sidner accused her, and all media for that matter, of attempting to make the protesters look crazy. Sidner attempted to interview the man, but he remained contentious.
The man refused to give his name, and when he was asked for his thoughts on the situation, he replied, “What I think about this is all the press, and all the extra s**t y’all do, makes this worse.”
The man continued to accuse Sidner of not reporting on what’s actually happening, and directed her to get closer to the crowd, which is where she was headed when he stopped her. As she walked away, Sidner said, “Alright, so everybody’s got a hot head right now as you might imagine.”
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SARA SIDNER: Just go ahead and tell me your number.
- --talking about something that's real.
SARA SIDNER: Tell me what's real.
- Y'all just going to edit out this [BLEEP].
SARA SIDNER: We are live. We are live. Listen.
- Y'all going to edit out some other [BLEEP].
SARA SIDNER: We're live right now.
- You are not [BLEEP] live.
SARA SIDNER: I'm live right now.
- I don't care if you live or not.
SARA SIDNER: OK.
- Get away from here with all the media [BLEEP] that y'all doing.
- CNN's Sara Sidner was confronted by a protester in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, Monday night, as she covered the ongoing protests following the police killing of Dante Wright on Sunday. According to the protester, the media is part of the problem.
SARA SIDNER: What's your name?
- What's my name? My name is my name.
SARA SIDNER: All right. So tell me what you think about what's going on.
- What I think about this is all the press and all the extra [BLEEP] y'all do makes this worse.
SARA SIDNER: You think so?
- Yes.
- The protests have remained contentious even as Sidner expressed concern for his safety.
SARA SIDNER: I want you to be careful. I really do.
- Of what?
SARA SIDNER: Of anything that could hit you.
- Of what?
SARA SIDNER: Of anything that can hit you. Look at all the stuff--
[BOOM]
--of this.
- Of what?
SARA SIDNER: Of this.
- Do I look like I'm scared?
SARA SIDNER: No, you don't.
- Do I look like I'm scared?
SARA SIDNER: You don't. You don't.
- Exactly. Y'all need to get up out of here with all that twisting up the media and [BLEEP].
- After the encounter, Sidner posted a tweet saying, "I get that people are mad. It's normal. I take no offense. Emotions are understandably high after the killing of #DanteWright," a sentiment she echoed at the time.
- Then take that camera all the way to [BLEEP] there.
SARA SIDNER: We are going up there. That's what we're going.
- Y'all doing all the extra [BLEEP] for the backhand to make people look all crazier than what the [BLEEP] they are.
SARA SIDNER: All right. Then you watch us because that's where we're going. All right. So everybody's got a hot head right now as you might imagine.
