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b'Skeptics Parse NBC News Statement After Employee Accused Of Tailing Rittenhouse Jurors Bus - Skeptics are accusing NBC News of attempting to mislead in a Thursday statement after police alleged an MSNBC freelancer was following the bus of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial jury.\\n\\nWisconsin circuit court Judge Bruce Schroeder banned MSNBC from his courthouse on Thursday after police caught and cited a man for a traffic violation claiming to be with the network tailing the jury\\u2019s sealed bus. The man said he was under orders from a higher-up at the network in New York, according to authorities.\\n\\nNBC News, a sister network to MSNBC, admitted that the man involved in the incident was a freelancer for MSNBC. NBC News denied that the man was tailing the bus, contrary to what he told police, according to authorities. NBC News also claimed that the freelancer never intended to contact jurors \\u201cduring deliberations.\\u201d\\n\\n\\u201cLast night, a freelancer received a traffic citation. While the traffic violation took place near the jury van, the freelancer never contacted or intended to contact the jurors during deliberations, and never photographed or intended to photograph them,\\u201d NBC News said in a statement. \\u201cWe regret the incident and will fully cooperate with the authorities on any investigation.\\u201d\\n\\nThe \\u201cduring deliberations\\u201d phrase of the statement received attention and criticism online as reporters and others suggested that NBC was trying to mislead and cover for sending a freelancer after the Rittenhouse trial jurors.\\n\\n\\u201c*During deliberations*,\\u201d said Erielle Davidson, a senior policy analyst at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America. \\u201cFull intent on seeing the jurors and contacting them after deliberations. Given the media\\u2019s generally grotesque coverage of this trial, at what point does such behavior amount to intimidation?\\u201d\\n\\nRadio host Vince Coglianese remarked, \\u201cNBC promises the guy they had following the jury never intended to do anything related to journalism.\\u201d\\n\\n\\u201cHe said he was told to follow them. This statement doesn\\u2019t address that,\\u201d Tablet Magazine CTO Noam Blum said, referring to the freelancer\\u2019s statement to police.\\n\\nNBC News did not immediately respond to a request for clarification from The Daily Wire.\\n\\nSchroeder announced that he had banned MSNBC from the courthouse on Thursday after receiving a report from police.\\n\\n\\u201cThe matter is under further investigation at this point, and the media has asked questions about it. That\\u2019s the latest I have,\\u201d Schroeder said. \\u201cHe was ticketed for violating a traffic control signal. He is not here today, from what I\\u2019m told, and I have instructed that no one from MSNBC News will be permitted in this building for the duration of this trial.\\u201d\\n\\nThe judge added that the matter would be referred to the \\u201cproper authorities\\u201d for further investigation.\\n\\n\\u201cThis is a very serious matter, and I don\\u2019t know what the ultimate truth of it is, but absolutely it would go without much thinking that someone who is following a jury bus, that\\u2019s an extremely serious matter and will be referred to the proper authorities for further action,\\u201d he said.\\n\\nThe Daily Wire is one of America\\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a member.'