Agent provocateur harasses CNN anchor Sara Sidman at Brooklyn Center, Minnesota protest

[orangecrush]

Captain obvious calls this one.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2021/04/13/sara-sidner-brooklyn-center-minnesota-daunte-wright-protester-confrontation-live-vpx.cnn


This was obviously an attempt at intimidating press into not covering the demonstration.

"If people want to have a protest, they need to have it not in front of a police station"

He was threatening her.

My guess is plainclothes cop.

This guy is not a demonstrator, he is an anti demonstrator.

[Deuxcents]

1. Hmmmm

I watched this last night n at one point was afraid for her. The suggestion that he’s a cop makes sense b/c his disguise and position of his cap just doesn’t get with an angry protester..IMO

[orangecrush]

2. I'm seeing the same thing.

His tone was definitely threatening.

[gldstwmn]

10. I watched it live and he had no clear agenda.

He wasn't on any discernible side and made little sense.

[quakerboy]

3. What is on his hat?

[orangecrush]

6. Can't see

But probably "I am a cop"

[intheflow]

4. Or, he could live in that residential neighborhood

and not want a riot or media circus outside his door. I watched it and saw a man who could be traumatized by being a Black body in a city where cops seem to hunt Black bodies and not trusting white-controlled media to cover it fairly. He could be an agent provocateur but he could just as easily be a regular guy who only wants to live his life away from a war zone.

[Kaleva]

5. People want to see that which reinforces their world view.

And they don't see or dismiss that which challenges their world view.

[Blue_true]

7. That is close to what I got out of it.

The guy seemed concerned that the Press was going to focus on people who were being violent, not on people who were protesting.

[Kaleva]

8. Yes!

[gldstwmn]

9. I didn't understand him at all.

She handled it brilliantly though.