VIDEO: April Ryan’s Bodyguard Accused of Assaulting Reporter

Fox News has confirmed that a bodyguard for CNN’s April Ryan did indeed ‘violently’ remove a journalist from an event where Ryan was the keynote speaker on August 3rd. The journalist, Charlie Kratovil, has these events laid out through a series of tweets in a very long thread which gives his side of the story of what happened.

According to screenshots shown on verified Twitter user and ‘freelance field producer’ Marcus J. DiPaola, April Ryan is ‘not apologizing’ for the incident as of last night but rather blocking people on Twitter for bringing it up. He also retweeted some of journalist Kartovil’s tweets showing videos of the incident.

This is bad PR for CNN, as it comes in the same week as Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo are both embroiled in scandal. Lemon is being sued for an alleged assault and Cuomo was busted losing his cool in a now-viral video where he was offended for being referred to as ‘Fredo‘.

From Fox News:

Charlie Kratovil, editor of New Brunswick Today, was on hand to cover a speech given by Ryan at the 4th annual New Jersey Parent Summit, which focuses on “educating, empowering and preparing parents for our future leaders,” on Aug. 3 at The Heldrich Hotel.

After covering the event for roughly three hours “without incident,” Kratovil claims he was approached by a man, who he said he later found out was Ryan’s security guard Joel Morris.

“During the intro, this man came up to me, mentioned my video camera & asked me ‘Who are you with?'” Kratovil wrote on Twitter. “I gave him my card & explained that I followed the proper channels to cover the event. I asked if he had a card & he responded by saying he was ‘with the speaker.'”

If you follow the tweets below in sequence it will give you whole the story as portrayed by Kratovil. There are two videos and viewer discretion is advised.

The kicker here is what Ryan had to say while the incident was going down, also from Fox News:

As Kratovil and Morris begin causing a scene, Ryan explains to the crowd, “When I speak, I don’t have news covering my speech.” Kratovil said another journalist was recording her speech.

As of this writing, Media Right News has not been able to find any statements made yet on the incident by April Ryan.

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