Clear images of IDs belonging to Farook and Malik, who were shot and killed by police, were broadcast – along with other IDs found in the home.
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“This apartment clearly is full of evidence”.
Inside, journalists poked in every corner, handled documents, held Qurans and stuffed animals up to the cameras, and generally trampled through what was, at least until recently, a crime scene and potential intelligence resource. “Oh yeah, I am”.
TheBlaze quickly reached out to San Bernardino’s Sheriff’s office, but the press officer was in shock of what was taking place, telling the TheBlaze he had “no clue” what was happening, despite the events playing out on live television.
Doyle Miller, the owner of the townhouse, went this morning see what damage had been caused by police. She said journalists also must figure out “what portions of that information are relevant and how they’re relevant”.
Astonishingly, among the items left in the open for reporters to view was a copy, on FBI letterhead, of the items removed by the bureau for further analysis. The couple’s baby was already born at the time they moved in, he said. “It got way out of hand”, she said.
However, the landlord reportedly provided interviews when media went inside the apartment and later seemed to suggest he didn’t prevent media from entering and looking around. A search warrant was executed at the apartment.
He said what happens after that, he said, has “nothing to do with us”. The first thing I noticed when I looked at this is this apartment was not dusted for (finger)prints.
While shining his camera’s light into a garbage bin to find shredded papers, Sanders remarked: “The FBI must have decided that whatever was in here was not important”.
Media organizations at the rental home Wednesday should have already been familiar with the ethics of reporting live from a crime scene, because such access is not unprecedented for journalists – though granting it to a pack of reporters all at once seemed unusual, McBride said.
According to reporters on the ground, one media outlet had negotiated access to the building directly with the landlord and the media scrum followed that crew onto the premises.
“We regret that we briefly showed images of photographs and identification cards that should not have been aired without review”, the network said in a statement given to the Washington Examiner.
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“MSNBC and other news organizations were invited into the home by the landlord after law enforcement officials had finished examining the site and returned to control the landlord”, an MSNBC spokesman said in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter.
