NBC News correspondent Shaquille Brewster fought off an angry man who tried to interrupt his live stand-up report from Gulfport, Mississippi on Monday.
Brewster was reporting on Hurricane Ida which made landfall in Louisiana Sunday morning. The unidentified man jumped out of a white pickup truck and ran towards Brewster’s camera crew.
“I think we even have a random person … going around,” Brewster said as he turned away from the individual. Brewster managed to keep his distance from the man who could still be heard shouting
“Craig, I’m gonna toss it back to you because we have a person who needs a little help right now,” Brewster said to studio host Craig Melvin.
As the network cut away from Brewster, the man pops into the frame again, getting inches away from the reporter’s face, prompting Brewster to lift his microphone up to the man’s chest and push the man away.
Brewster later tweeted that he made it out of the situation uninjured. “The team and I are all good.”
