Scott Pelley
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and that they were half of these confrontations.
And so I instructed my producers to find images over the past few weeks of these protests in which we see the protesters acting aggressively.
We found a picture of a protester chest-bumping an officer.
We found a picture of an officer being hit in the head with a snowball.
culled together a lot of video of protesters screaming in the faces of officers, because we were going to talk about the killing of Pretty and the killing of Good.
And it seemed to me important to tell the audience about the entire context.
In fact, I remember writing a line in the story
that said that the protesters were pushing the boundaries of what it means to peacefully assemble, taking the language from the First Amendment.
And I thought we'd done a really good job with this.
We also included a picture of Alex Preti before he was killed kicking out a taillight on a police car and made a point of saying, this is Alex Preti and this is what he did.
So the story goes through screenings.
It's very well received.
There are notes, as always.
And we do rewrites, as always.
But this is on a very tight deadline.
It's Sunday.
We're going on the air that night.
And in the case of stories that are, as we say, crashing, meaning right against the deadline, our deadline on Sunday is noon.
So we work on all of these things.
We get the piece approved by everyone.