CNN’s Sara Sidner reported live from Brooklyn Center, Minnesota Monday night as protesters gathered for the second night after the police shooting of Daunte Wright.

Sidner described how police were firing tear gas when one man approached Sidner to take issue with the media coverage.

“Tell me what you think about what’s going on here,” Sidner said.

“What I think about this is all the press and all the extra shit y’all do makes this worse,” the man said.

After he said “you get what the fuck I’m saying?”, Sidner said, “I want you to be careful. I really do.”

“Of what?” he asked.

“Of anything that can hit you,” she responded.

“Do I look like I’m scared?” he asked.

The man said, “You all need to get up out of here with all that twisting up the media and shit.”

Sidner said they’re live on air right now. The man responded, “I don’t care if you’re live or not. Get away from here with all that media shit.”

“This is live right now. We’re with CNN…” Sidner said.

“Then take that camera all the way the fuck up there then,” he said.

As Sidner got moving, she said, “Everybody’s got a hot head right now, as you might imagine, because it is really, really hot right now.”

After the clip hit social media it quickly went viral. Reactions, as is generally the case, were mixed. In a quoted-tweet response to one person who shared the clip, Sidner said "I’m not going anywhere."

"I love Minneapolis, it’s surrounding suburbs including #BrooklynCenter , and it’s people," she wrote. "I get that people are mad. It’s normal. I take no offense."

"Emotions are understandably high after the killing of #DanteWright," she concluded.

Sidner handled the exchange very well. Though some critics on social media insist that not leaving somehow defies the will of the community, the truth is major events will and should be covered by the press. It is the job of a responsible journalist to cover it fairly, objectively, courageously, and completely.

Sidner did that. When the news happened, she was there. When the news came to her she stood her ground and reported it. A resident and witness, one of the human beings who comprise this human story, was able to speak his mind.

That's a great job by any measure.

Fox Nation personality Tomi Lahren declared she won't be taking the Covid-19 vaccine in a confounding rant that aired on the network’s streaming platform Monday night.

This might not come as a surprise, if you know anything about Tomi Lahren, but her reasoning for not taking a vaccine proven to be effective against a virus that has killed more than 560,000 Americans is nonsensical.

Lahren says "I'm not saying we can't trust the vaccine" before questioning how trustworthy the vaccines are. She says "luckily the vaccines have not yet become mandatory" but then says she "imagines" they will be "any day now." Later she demands to know how the "forced vaccine" that she "imagines" can possibly be constitutional. The vaccines are not being forced on anyone in the United States.

"What happened to informed consent?" Lahren demands to know from the people she imagines will undermine it in the future.

"Not one Democrat or Democrat-celebrated health or science official has said the vaccines will end the mask requirements,” Lahren rants. “You know what? I personally will not get the vaccine and I personally will not be forced to get it. If you want to get it, by all means, please do. If you want to wear one, two or five masks while driving or walking alone, by all means, please do.”

“But how dare the government or anyone else tell me how to live my life or mandate I take a shot to live and work in what I thought was this free country,” the Fox Nation host continued on the subject of the vaccines that are not mandated. “That’s a no from me dog."

In a breaking news story this morning, the FDA and CDC are calling for a pause in distribution to the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen vaccine, over data from studies on the "extremely rare" occurrence of a type of blood clot after vaccination. It's the kind of news that anti-vaxxers mistakenly believe bolsters their argument.

But in fact it highlights the illogic of Lahren's commentary. Not only is no one forced to take it, but the existence of study data to be reviewed has resulted in a distribution pause - the very kind of precaution anti-vaxxers claim isn't taken to ensure safe use.

There is a lot more in the clip.

The scattered, self-contradictory "final thoughts" from Lahren were a mess, not unexpectedly. An irresponsible rant that one would more suited to an Infowars or a Tik-Tok clip than on a major corporate news platform.