as far as I can tell the police did not do anything like cover up antifa ties, if you read their statement you would see this.
so far this is what I have gathered
> not a licensed security guard.
> no concealed carry permit.
> not a Pinkerton agency employee.
> Antifa agitator
> “news” producer uses press credentials to illegally gain access for his agitator friends to provoke patriot group
> soon-to-be-leaked communications show the 9news producer, the shooter and their mutt agitator friend conspiring in advance to start violence with the patriot group to generate a story for 9news, and ‘kill a mother fucking Trump voter” after baiting him.
I doubt that story because the shooter was just married...he’s not going to shoot someone on purpose so his buddy can write a story.
Oh, without a doubt. They'll probably try to deflect the coming shitstorm by conjuring up "white supremacists" (a~la the Charlottesville riot) since that has been the talking point they've been lobbing at Trump now for weeks.
They wanted a "bloody shirt" video of some tattooed biker stereotype thug attacking their "action reporter". Instead they got video of their "security" guy shooting and killing someone who wasn't displaying any lethal threat.
Here’s another (unanswered) question: what exactly was that producer for KUSA (”9 News”) doing out there?
As many know, I labored in the salt mines of broadcast news before coming to my senses and embarking on a military career—smartest move I ever made. But I was in the news business long enough to learn how they operate
Then as now, local stations—even those in large markets like Denver—don’t have the staffing or budget for “field producers.” That’s a luxury reserved for the broadcast and cable networks and even they don’t have a producer on every story; typical crew is a reporter (who doubles as producer) and a videographer who handles editing and operates the live truck, as required. The producer at a local station is the person who builds one of the newscasts; selects stories and video; makes edits on selected reports, writes copy for the anchors and coordinates production with the director and studio crew.
It would be unusual for a producer to be in the field unless the assignment editor, assistant news director or news director deemed it necessary to coordinate multiple crews handling different story angles and getting their material back to the station. And if the story was that big, the field coordinator would be one of the executive producers (who supervise editorial content for multiple newscasts), someone from the assignment desk, or perhaps the assistant AD—not a line “story stacker,” err, producer whose job it is to prepare the next newscast.
Where does the “producer” fall in the 9 News hierarchy? Who assigned him to go out into the field? Was the “security guard” (as indicated in early reports) hired to protect the producer—and if so, why would someone so low on the totem pole need protection? And where were his fellow KUSA employees? The video I saw came from KDVR, the Fox affiliate. One of the rules drilled into the head of media personnel in this type of situation is stay together—there’s strength in numbers and it makes it easier for the assigned security to keep tabs on everyone and protect them.
Why did 9 News have a producer on the scene when (presumably) their reporters and photographers were providing coverage? Were other Denver stations using field producers as well? Where were they (in relation to their crews) and did other stations have private security personnel protecting their journalists? Pinkerton has already stated the “security guard” was not one of their employees. Was he a sub-contractor, and who was responsible for hiring him and assigning him to the producer?
Way too many unanswered questions, and predictably, the other media outlets are giving KUSA a pass. I think it’s quite probable (as others have suggested), the 9 News staffer may have used his press credentials to get more agitators (including the security guard) into the area where they could directly confront the conservative group.
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/trump-supporter-shot-and-killed-at-denver-rally/
Not what she said