before those little pieces would get in between my dentures and my gum and it was uncomfortable. [ male announcer ] just a few dabs is clinically proven to seal out more food particles. [ corrine ] super poligrip is part of my life now. i don t have to [ bleep ]. this is public. a local news reporter and his camerawoman are attacked while filming a sidewalk memorial. what you going to do? what you going to do? and the whole frenetic scene is caught on camera. i have encountered angry and violent people, but this exploded quickly. february 20th, 2011, 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.
skb skblg. after the incident, john says he receives an out pouring of support from the incident. but he says there are also some critics. does it bother me that there are some people who say we didn t handle it ourselves? yeah, it does bother me. i ve gone through discovery. i ve tried to do things with integrity. i think this s the reason i ve been a suck sisz. the sacramento county district attorney decides not to file charges against anyone in the crowd. on february 24th, 2011, two suspects are arrested.
camera. the photographer is too vulnerable. they are one-armed, blind on this side. they can t defend themselves. and i m responsible for the crew. but while john tries to fend off the man, several women begin to swarm around rebecca. she s holding the camera in the air. she s a tall woman trying to protect the company property. but rebecca s got two on her and two other women circle back around. and they grab her by the hair and pull her down. i m 6 4 . she must have been 5 4 max, but it didn t matter because i didn t see her. after i m pulled to the ground, john tries to protect me and get them away from me. and then some lady decides that she wants to kick me in the face. as the crowd swells in numbers, one woman charges through and kicks rebecca in her left temple. and at that point, i was shocked. i didn t know what was going on.
so my initial reaction was to cover my face. i take the woman and push her back into the crowd and several of those people fell back. and at that point, the guy in the purple fleece has taken a shot at me, and i m still again trying to keep them off of her. and i turn around and i can still see her on the ground, and i yell at her, rebecca, get up. and at the point, whatever was going on with her, she snapped out of it. she popped up off the ground and i can tell that she s out in the street now and she s got the camera on her shoulder and everything s okay. at that point, the crowd leaves rebecca alone, but they continue to target john who starts to back away slowly. i m just trying to keep a distance from them as i backpedal down the sidewalk. towards the end, there s a young guy, kind of buff, in my face. and i m just trying to explain to him that i have a job to do. i wasn t there to make this worse.