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No Charges To Be Filed In Attack On News Crew Outside IHOP

April 27, 2011 at 2:29 am by  

No Charges To Be Filed In Attack On News Crew Outside IHOPSacramento, CA – Dunno if any of you remember the story we posted about back in February regarding some mourners attacking a Fox40 news crew, but there has been an update to the story. No charges will be filed.

Back in February, FOX40 reporter John Lobertini and photographer Rebecca Little, were with other news crews at an IHOP parking lot were 27-year-old Chester Jackson had been shot to death earlier that day. Lobertini and Little got into a confrontation with friends and family of the victim who had gathered there when they began trying to interview some of them.

Video shows the father of the victim, 57-year-old Chester Jackson III, pushing Little’s camera away before a woman pulls Little to the ground. Jacqueline Jackson, the sister of the victim, then kicks Little while she’s on the ground, and Chester Jackson throws a punch at Lobertini.

The DA’s office stated their decision not to press charges against Jackson were because “his actions do not rise to the level of a prosecutable case for assault or battery and certainly not attempted robbery.” Fair enough. They are probably right in his case. I doubt a jury would convict a grieving father for throwing a punch at an intrusive news reporter.

But the sister? The DA made a similar statement acknowledging that “her conduct clearly falls outside the bounds of acceptable behavior, is highly offensive, and technically qualifies as a misdemeanor assault or battery.” But again, they feel charges are unwarranted when the “emotions, anger, and frustrations that surely accompanied the very recent murder of her brother” are taken into consideration.

Here’s some raw video of the incident.

I don’t know what’s more offensive; that people condone the behavior displayed by the family or that Lobertini and Little had to go through physical therapy after the incident. BTW, I tried to find out if they ever named or charged anyone in connection with Jackson’s murder, but after six pages of nothing but this incident coming up, I quit.

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    • Zibarro aka Kryssa

      Surveillance Footage Leads to Arrest of Murder Suspects
      The Sacramento Police Department arrested two suspects for the murder of 27-year-old Chester Jackson.

      On February 20, 2011, at 2:40 a.m., officers received a call to the 2900 block of Advantage Way on a subject who had been shot outside a restaurant. Officers arrived and found Chester Jackson shot on the sidewalk area in front of the business. Jackson was later declared deceased at the scene.

      Homicide detectives and Crime Scene Investigators responded to the scene. Based upon the investigation, it is believed that two groups of subjects got into an argument inside the restaurant. The groups went outside and the argument escalated resulting in the victim getting shot.

      Detectives were able to retrieve surveillance video from inside the restaurant. On February 23, 2011, detectives released the surveillance images of the suspects to the public. Within hours of the release, detectives received tips which led to the identification of the suspects as 26-year-old Marcus Davis and 30-year-old Robert Lucas. Both suspects reside in Vallejo, California.

      On February 24, 2011, the suspect’s family contacted detectives and indicated they would bring Davis and Lucas to our police headquarters. At 4:00 p.m., both Davis and Lucas arrived and were taken into custody without incident for murder.

      http://www.sacpd.org/newsroom/releases/liveview.aspx?release_id=20110224-038

      No charges for anyone in this mob is bullshit. Especially the out of control bitch who attacked the camera woman. Mourning someone shouldn’t give you a free pass on assault. At anytime that bitch could have walked away – but instead she ambushed the camera woman, pulled her to the ground and kicked her in the face.

    • Wicked Smilee

      I’m guessing we haven’t heard squat about the victim, because he wasn’t a pretty white girl?

    • Anonymous

      I don’t know. If I was blind with grief I might do a lot of things. Couldn’t these folks just wait until the family left to get their shitty little shot of the IHOP?

    • Anonymous

      I don’t know. If I was blind with grief I might do a lot of things. Couldn’t these folks just wait until the family left to get their shitty little shot of the IHOP?

    • Anonymous

      I don’t know. If I was blind with grief I might do a lot of things. Couldn’t these folks just wait until the family left to get their shitty little shot of the IHOP?

    • Anonymous

      I don’t know. If I was blind with grief I might do a lot of things. Couldn’t these folks just wait until the family left to get their shitty little shot of the IHOP?

    • Anonymous

      I don’t know. If I was blind with grief I might do a lot of things. Couldn’t these folks just wait until the family left to get their shitty little shot of the IHOP?

    • Anonymous

      I’m gonna just go on and say it, most reporters suck.

      What do you do when you’re hurting because you’ve lost someone near and dear and are trying to cope with that loss and someone comes along shoving cameras in your face? It’s easy to say that you wouldn’t react to it, but when you’re an emotional ball of hurt, anger and sorrow.. the truth is you just don’t know what you’ll do. I can easily understand the young man’s family’s frustrations and reactions having seen first hand (and fairly recently) how reporters can be at the most inappropriate time. Not saying they handled it well, but, yes, I can understand it. A lot of reporters are vultures out for their story and not giving a damn about anything else, least of all people who are already and may be hurt further by their actions. For most reporters, there are no such things as respect or human decency as long as they’re getting what they want… the big story.

    • Anonymous

      I’m gonna just go on and say it, most reporters suck.

      What do you do when you’re hurting because you’ve lost someone near and dear and are trying to cope with that loss and someone comes along shoving cameras in your face? It’s easy to say that you wouldn’t react to it, but when you’re an emotional ball of hurt, anger and sorrow.. the truth is you just don’t know what you’ll do. I can easily understand the young man’s family’s frustrations and reactions having seen first hand (and fairly recently) how reporters can be at the most inappropriate time. Not saying they handled it well, but, yes, I can understand it. A lot of reporters are vultures out for their story and not giving a damn about anything else, least of all people who are already and may be hurt further by their actions. For most reporters, there are no such things as respect or human decency as long as they’re getting what they want… the big story.

    • wyrosjr

      You are correct mam. Most likely this was a low life felon who couldn’t stay out of trouble. Judging from the “mourners” behavior, its no secret how he got that way.

    • Anonymous

      If the news crew was so injured, why did they still continue to stick around AND film/aggravate this family?
      They obviously seen what their initial attempts at interviewing the grieving family and friends did, why would you not just call it a day and go? To me it seems as though at that point after the attack, they were just antagonizing them. It’s not right to just attack people, but when you are mourning the loss of a loved one, it’s hard and you’re angry. This news crew should know when to walk away…

    • Anonymous

      If the news crew was so injured, why did they still continue to stick around AND film/aggravate this family?
      They obviously seen what their initial attempts at interviewing the grieving family and friends did, why would you not just call it a day and go? To me it seems as though at that point after the attack, they were just antagonizing them. It’s not right to just attack people, but when you are mourning the loss of a loved one, it’s hard and you’re angry. This news crew should know when to walk away…

    • Anonymous

      I’m so glad no charges will be filed. What a bunch of bullshit. It’s one thing to harass Tom Cruise at IHOP but to harass a murder victims family. How fucking pathetic. Oh, also that Camera Woman and that damn Reporter didn’t get “beat up”. I’ve seen people get their asses kicked and they did not. The family deserves the apology not the damn FOX news employees.

    • Anonymous

      I’m so glad no charges will be filed. What a bunch of bullshit. It’s one thing to harass Tom Cruise at IHOP but to harass a murder victims family. How fucking pathetic. Oh, also that Camera Woman and that damn Reporter didn’t get “beat up”. I’ve seen people get their asses kicked and they did not. The family deserves the apology not the damn FOX news employees.

    • Anonymous

      I’m so glad no charges will be filed. What a bunch of bullshit. It’s one thing to harass Tom Cruise at IHOP but to harass a murder victims family. How fucking pathetic. Oh, also that Camera Woman and that damn Reporter didn’t get “beat up”. I’ve seen people get their asses kicked and they did not. The family deserves the apology not the damn FOX news employees.

    • Anonymous

      I’m so glad no charges will be filed. What a bunch of bullshit. It’s one thing to harass Tom Cruise at IHOP but to harass a murder victims family. How fucking pathetic. Oh, also that Camera Woman and that damn Reporter didn’t get “beat up”. I’ve seen people get their asses kicked and they did not. The family deserves the apology not the damn FOX news employees.

    • Anonymous

      I’m so glad no charges will be filed. What a bunch of bullshit. It’s one thing to harass Tom Cruise at IHOP but to harass a murder victims family. How fucking pathetic. Oh, also that Camera Woman and that damn Reporter didn’t get “beat up”. I’ve seen people get their asses kicked and they did not. The family deserves the apology not the damn FOX news employees.