And just as came to me, two or three other people jumped in front of the camera and yelled, ‘F- Fox News.'” “And it was a screenshot of a tweet that someone put up from one of my earlier reports. “He was clearly sort of following us and watching us and tracking us, and at about 12:55, as I was sitting there about to do my live shot, he kept looking to his phone off to my left and he pulls out a picture of me, a screenshot, and he says to a couple of other people, ‘This is the guy from Fox News,'” Vittert said. Vittert said that there was one younger man, who he described as white, of a slight build, wearing glasses, a green hoodie and a black and white bandana over his face, who was recording them, and he kept asking, “Who are you with? Who are you with?” Vittert said that he just tried to “deflect and move on,” but the man was “pretty insistent for an hour and a half.” He said that during the evening, they had standing behind the row of protesters who were up against a barricade separating the park from Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House, with the Secret Service lined up on the other side. riot police walked down and the crowd kind of backed up and we explained what happened.” We just hugged the police cruiser, and about a minute or two minutes later a big team of Metro Police or D.C. He said that they reached a police cruiser about a block and a half away, but the officer “wouldn’t get out of his car, and I don’t know if that was because of protocol or whether he just saw the huge mob. One of the security staffers was punched in the face and knocked to the ground, he said. A Fox News camera was broken when one of the protesters attempted to grab it. Vittert said that they also were hit with water bottles, and they also were punched.
He said that in the middle of Lafayette Park they did not spot police officers, and the Secret Service was on the other side of the barricades. “We were all linked together to try to stay together to push through, and things got a little rough, and somebody chucked it at me and somebody else picked it up and started beating me with it,” Vittert said. The Daily Caller captured the scene as they tried to link their arms together as they left the park and made their way up 16th street. Then, after only a brief time on air, Vittert turned it back over to Bream.īut the situation descended quickly for Vittert, cameraman Christian Galdabini and two Fox security staffers, as the crowd of around them grew bigger and their chants against the network grew louder. Cable News Networks See Slight Overall Audience Boost In October As Midterms Near, But Primetime Viewership Continues To DropĪnchor Shannon Bream went to Vittert at 12:56 AM ET, and he told her, “We have some media critics out here.” About a half dozen protesters could be seen surrounding him and chanting “F- Fox News,” and one lunged at Vittert as he was reporting.
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