Fox News’ Bill Hemmer said he was “infuriated” as he watched a swarm of reporters last week rifle through he personal belongings of the San Bernardino shooters, especially when the major networks broadcast live images of personal information and photos.
“[S]o much of this reporting, it’s just unbelievable,” he said Tuesday afternoon on Fox News’ Outnumbered.
On Friday, reporters from NBC News, Fox News, CNN and CBS News crowded into the boarded-up apartment of the alleged killers, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, 27, and rummaged through the deceased couples’ trash, clothes and personal finances.
And all of it was shown live and uncensored.
“I’m just infuriated by what I watched on Friday,” Hemmer said. “When the plywood was taken off of the apartment, 72 hours after 14 people were killed and 21 were injured, that is an active crime scene! And then these reporters go in by the dozens!”
He continued, adding that he was equally infuriated at the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s response to what many reporters thought was an on-air violation of an active crime scene.
Federal agents had apparently already “cleared” the apartment, and that anything that happened after that is not the agency’s problem, an FBI spokesman said after reporters got their fill of pilfering.
Hemmer said, “I’m throwing stuff at the TV so much of this is unbelievable. And these neighbors say they never saw her face? In two years they never saw their face? What’s going on?”
“I was steaming all weekend after watching all that stuff,” he added.
Fox News’ Will Carr was one of the reporters included in the Friday ransacking.
However, unlike CNN and MSNBC, the latter of which apologized later for its handling of the situation, Carr and his camera team didn’t air live images of personal information or photos.
