The video supports the scenario of a reporter who went to the house of a victim of a horrific crime to get emotional footage, and got it.
Put yourself in her shoes, Free... The reality is you wouldn't abide some idiot reporter doing this to you if it was your kid, and you know it.
Maybe her assault trial will be at the same time as the one for the guy who shot her daughter.
That way they can both see what punishment they'll both receive.
She called the reporter a "white bitch", so I wonder if this is going to be a hate crime.
It is a shame that now her dogs will probably be classified as dangerous and destroyed.
Came back to add:
Melissa Lawrence has now been charged with two counts of felony assault.
She was later released on $50,000 bail. Her next court date is August 8.
If I were on her jury she would get off. The idea... God forbid, I lose one of my daughters in some horrible news producing event...
I couldn't possibly bear to have some idiot reporter trying to stuff a microphone at me at that moment. I'd be broken, and I'd have a hard time giving any thought to whether or not the stupid wench called the police on me for whatever it took to get her away from me.
I have always thought, if something horrible happens to my kids, when some reporter shove a mic or camera in my face and asks "How are you feeling?" I hope I have my wits about me so I can stare right in their eyes and reply, "I feel like beating the hell out of the first person to ask me a stupid question".
The best thing to do is to not say anything or interact with them in any way cause they are going to get the last word. So the best way to manage them is not to vent but to tell them to call your representative and walk away.I'd hope that first I'd tell her, "Don't take this personally, I'm going to hold 'the finger' in front of my face so that any image of me is pixelated."
Then go on to describe, in my way without cursing, exactly how low I think a person is who would attempt to use my emotional pain for the entertainment of unwashed masses and their own aggrandizement.
Which doesn't change that I sympathize, not with the reporter, but with the grieving woman who simply didn't want her pain to be the entertainment of the evening for unempathetic narcissistic losers. She may have gone at it in the wrong way, but the raw emotion that caused it is not something that should be foreign to anybody capable of even the slightest empathy.