and i m just trying to explain to him that i have a job to do. i wasn t there to make this worse. if anything, you know, my presence there was good for charged scene lash out, others try to defuse the situation. a few women at the memorial try to explain the crowd s reaction to rebecca because, as it turns out, she knows some of them. rebecca went to high school with the murder victim chester jackson. do you understand that they just lost a family member? a few of the people on channel 10 s video, at the end of the video who are trying to calm me down, becky, becky, becky because i went by becky in high school you don t understand. you don t understand. somebody was just murdered. you have to have respect for the family. no, you don t understand. i was just trying to do my job. stunned by the day s events, john and rebecca leave the scene. and though they have a few bumps and bruises, john is glad no one is seriously injured. i think we got out of a very
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they even asked us to leave, they told us to leave. and almost instantly, things take a turn for the worse. the woman starts yelling at us, telling us what were we doing standing there and this is a private memorial and you re not supposed to be here. i said, look, we re not here to make this any worse. but you do realize this is a public sidewalk, and we have every right to be here and we were told that you guys were expecting us. and at that point, she starts to get really angry. i don t have to [ bleep ]. this is public, you re right. and i m here and i m talking [ bleep ]. it s public. [ bleep ] you and him. i am talking to these women and i m trying to calm them down. and the guy in the purple fleece breaks through them and goes straight for the camera. instinctively, john puts himself between the man and rebecca. i think it s probably an unspoken rule in television news.
other news crews that the mood of the crowd of mourners is tense. someone had mentioned that it was quite dangerous over there, but we didn t really think that because we had somebody who had told us we were able to speak with these people. somebody from our station who knew the victim told us they knew we were coming. undeterred by the warnings, john and rebecca continue toward the memorial, which is caught on camera by other news crews. we walked very closely, very quietly and gingerly down the sidewalk, and you know, i discussed with her going in, to go in with the camera rolling. you know, that makes for good television moments, and we walked up and we were probably seven to ten feet away. and there were a group of women huddled there, and they were hugging and rebecca was rolling. my focus was to get the pictures of the vigil. john asked if they wanted to talk, but if they didn t want to talk, they didn t want to talk. they didn t want to, but before
sacramento, california. news reporter john lobertini and his camerawoman rebecca little are gearing up to cover a murder investigation for fox affiliate ktxl-tv. early that morning, 27-year-old chester jackson was shot and killed outside a local ihop restaurant. hours later, his family and friends have gathered near the scene to hold an impromptu memorial. john and rebecca are on their way to the restaurant to report on the story. it turns out one of our assignment editors had some relationships with people who knew chester jackson. so i called her and said what s going on? what s the emotional temperature out there? what can i expect? and she says, well, i ve talked to some of the people out there. they know you re coming. they re willing to talk to you. they have a picture of him. and i said who do i talk to? she says anybody. rebecca and john arrive at the scene and walk toward the memorial, but they are warned by