‘Stop Blocking My Camera!’ Geraldo Nearly Comes to Blows with Baltimore Protester
Geraldo Rivera came very close to a violent confrontation with a Baltimore protester Tuesday night. But some deft work by the Maryland Senate Majority Leader defused it.
Rivera was live in Baltimore moments after the city’s newly-imposed, 10 PM curfew took effect. As he tried to talk to Sean Hannity, who was back in New York, a protester got in Rivera’s face, blocked the camera and a shouting match ensued. “We don’t need your false coverage!” somebody shouted.
Fortunately, some calm intervention by Maryland Senate Majority Leader Catherine E. Pugh de-escalated what could easily have turned into a fistfight.
No, Pugh told Rivera, people “don’t want trouble." She added, “We want our people to go home. But we also need the media to move back, because this is just inciting people.”
Pugh steered Rivera out of the crowd. Later, she said, “It’s a very emotional thing because people have been out here all day long. They’ve been demonstrating very peacefully.” She said that when people see camera lights, it incites them. “But these people have been out here all day long, just demonstrating very peacefully,” she continued. “And they’re demonstrating because they care about their neighborhoods, and they care about their communities.”
