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An NBC News booking producer in New York named Irene Byon told Kenosha police in a body cam video that the network was trying to "see where people involved in the trial are positioned" when an Atlanta producer was accused of following the Kyle Rittenhouse jury van. In the body cam video, the officer asked James Morrison if he's from Wisconsin. He says he's from Atlanta and works as a producer for NBC. "I was trying to see...I was being called by New Yor, going maybe these people are who you need to follow. I don't know. I was trying to...just do what they told me to do." New York told you to follow a vehicle? asked the officer. "Yes," said Morrison. He said he wasn't trying to talk to anybody. He then called NBC producer Irene Byon in New York on his cell phone, and handed it to the officer, who recorded the conversation on his body camera. "We're trying to figure out what's going on, why you have a reporter or producer...

Wisconsin Right Now has been told by a credible source that the Kenosha police have sent out an email indicating a verdict has been reached in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. Daniel S. Banda of Kenosha police sent an email to many people at 10:55 a.m. We deleted identifying information to protect our source, but we have the email. This is the key part of it. The source told WRN around 11:25 a.m. on Nov. 19, 2021, that this information would be announced around noon. Kenosha police sent out the email to many other people in law enforcement. In about 45 minutes, a verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial will be given. The source said state agencies were told to give them a chance to prepare. This is a source we know is credible and in a position to know the information they told us. The jury is in its 4th day of deliberations. They sent several notes to the judge but asked to go home early on Thursday. They were quiet on Friday and there were no major developments reported by the ...

Why didn't prosecutors and police more thoroughly investigate "Jump Kick Man"? They have subpoena powers to prove or disprove the claims. Melody Price Freeland, the soon-to-be ex-wife of Maurice Freeland - the Kenosha felon who is suspected of being “Jump Kick Man" in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial - claimed to Wisconsin Right Now in an exclusive interview that Maurice allegedly told her right after the shooting occurred, “You’re not going to believe what just happened; I almost got shot by a dude.” “He was all proud of it. He was all excited and happy,” said Melody, the mother of Maurice’s 7-year-old child, in exclusive interviews with Wisconsin Right Now on Nov. 17-18. She said she was speaking out because she believes what he did was "wrong" and all facts should be known about the case. Melody's adult daughter, Jessica Ramirez, backed her up on this point. "The picture was all over Facebook. He bragged all over Facebook that he was the one w...

Why didn't prosecutors and police more thoroughly investigate "Jump Kick Man"? They have subpoena powers to prove or disprove the claims. Melody Price Freeland, the soon-to-be ex-wife of Maurice Freeland - the Kenosha felon who is suspected of being “Jump Kick Man" in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial - claimed to Wisconsin Right Now in an exclusive interview that Maurice allegedly told her right after the shooting occurred, “You’re not going to believe what just happened; I almost got shot by a dude.” “He was all proud of it. He was all excited and happy,” said Melody, the mother of Maurice’s 7-year-old child, in exclusive interviews with Wisconsin Right Now on Nov. 17-18. She said she was speaking out because she believes what he did was "wrong" and all facts should be known about the case. Melody's adult daughter, Jessica Ramirez, backed her up on this point. "The picture was all over Facebook. He bragged all over Facebook that he was the one w...

Why didn't prosecutors and police more thoroughly investigate "Jump Kick Man"? They have subpoena powers to prove or disprove the claims. Melody Price Freeland, the soon-to-be ex-wife of Maurice Freeland - the Kenosha felon who is suspected of being “Jump Kick Man" in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial - claimed to Wisconsin Right Now in an exclusive interview that Maurice allegedly told her right after the shooting occurred, “You’re not going to believe what just happened; I almost got shot by a dude.” “He was all proud of it. He was all excited and happy,” said Melody, the mother of Maurice’s 7-year-old child, in exclusive interviews with Wisconsin Right Now on Nov. 17-18. She said she was speaking out because she believes what he did was "wrong" and all facts should be known about the case. Melody's adult daughter, Jessica Ramirez, backed her up on this point. "The picture was all over Facebook. He bragged all over Facebook that he was the one w...

Why didn't prosecutors and police more thoroughly investigate "Jump Kick Man"? They have subpoena powers to prove or disprove the claims. Melody Price Freeland, the soon-to-be ex-wife of Maurice Freeland - the Kenosha felon who is suspected of being “Jump Kick Man" in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial - claimed to Wisconsin Right Now in an exclusive interview that Maurice allegedly told her right after the shooting occurred, “You’re not going to believe what just happened; I almost got shot by a dude.” “He was all proud of it. He was all excited and happy,” said Melody, the mother of Maurice’s 7-year-old child, in exclusive interviews with Wisconsin Right Now on Nov. 17-18. She said she was speaking out because she believes what he did was "wrong" and all facts should be known about the case. Melody's adult daughter, Jessica Ramirez, backed her up on this point. "The picture was all over Facebook. He bragged all over Facebook that he was the one w...

The video, which was in the state’s possession, “wasn’t provided to the defense until after the trial concluded," wrote the Rittenhouse defense attorneys. Prosecutors in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial gave the defense team a more compressed, less clear last-minute drone video than they had, putting the defense in a weaker position, according to a defense motion seeking a mistrial with prejudice. On Nov. 6, 2021, the fifth day of the trial, the prosecution "turned over to the defense footage of a drone video which captured some of the incident from Aug. 25, 2020," the defense attorneys wrote. “The problem is, the prosecution gave the defense a compressed version of the video. What that means is the video provided to the defense was not as clear as the video kept by the state.” According to the motion, the full size of the defense video is 3.6 MB and the state’s is 11.2 MB. The dimensions on the defense video are 480 X 212, and the state’s is 1920 X 844. [gallery siz...

Maurice Freeland, a felon with a long criminal history and an open domestic violence charge, is accused of being the mysterious supposedly unidentified man known as "Jump Kick Man" during the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. Wisconsin Right Now has learned from a law enforcement source in a position to know that prosecutors informed the Rittenhouse defense team only last Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021, as the trial came to an end, that Freeland had come forward claiming to be Jump Kick Man. It's not clear when Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger and his boss, DA Mike Graveley, first learned about Freeland's claims, the source said. Clearly, it would be a much bigger issue if the prosecution knew his identity for longer because the defense might have wanted to call or cross-examine him or track him down and vet the story; Wisconsin Right Now wrote Graveley and Binger and asked them for comment, and neither wrote back. Our source added additional details, saying that autho...

Maurice Freeland, a felon with a long criminal history and an open domestic violence charge, is accused of being the mysterious supposedly unidentified man known as "Jump Kick Man" during the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. Wisconsin Right Now has learned from a law enforcement source in a position to know that prosecutors informed the Rittenhouse defense team only last Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021, as the trial came to an end, that Freeland had come forward claiming to be Jump Kick Man. It's not clear when Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger and his boss, DA Mike Graveley, first learned about Freeland's claims, the source said. Clearly, it would be a much bigger issue if the prosecution knew his identity for longer because the defense might have wanted to call or cross-examine him or track him down and vet the story; Wisconsin Right Now wrote Graveley and Binger and asked them for comment, and neither wrote back. Our source added additional details, saying that autho...