by Sydney Smith December 04, 2015

MSNBC showed a close-up image of Rafia Farook’s driver’s license on live TV today. Farook is the mother of Syed Farook, one of the accused shooters in the San Bernardino shooting this week.

iMediaEthics watched the video of MSNBC going through Syed Farook’s townhouse after his landlord let media in. The MSNBC reporter went through the rooms, looking through a calendar, a stack of photos of unidentified people, and so on, with the camera showing close-ups of some.

At one point MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell in the studio cautions to not show pictures of the children. Ironically, on MSNBC later, the commentator said law enforcement wanted to be “slow and correct rather than fast and wrong.”

Over at CNN, Wolf Blitzer discussed the media going through the townhouse. “Never have I seen something like this,”

CNN legal analyst Paul Callan said on air about the media being allowed such access to the townhouse, going through belongings, especially when it doesn’t appear fingerprinting was done yet. “Turned a crime scene in a terrorist mass murder into a garage sale,” he added. “I’ve certainly never seen anything like this,” CNN’s Wolf Blitzer commented. -
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Quote: algernonpj wrote in post #3

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Quote: Sanguine wrote in post #2

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I guess it will be hard to prosecute with anything obtained from the residence.

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How convenient.

My question is was the townhouse taped off an marked as a crime scene ?

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