WBAL Anchor Gets Chippy After Chopper Shows Motorcycle Club

By Kevin Eck 

It’s got to be a long day for Baltimore TV crews, with wall-to-wall coverage of the ongoing unrest in the city.

WBAL anchor Stan Stovall showed some wear at about 4:00 p.m. today after Captain Roy Taylor, the station’s helicopter pilot, had a shot of a local “dirt bike pack” know as the 12 O’Clock Boys.

Stovall told the chopper pilot, “Now that we have identified that they are out there, I would now suggest we not give them anymore media attention because they thrive on it.”

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When Captain Roy weakly countered, “Well that’s an interesting concept,” Stovall added, “They are not the story today.”

Look at the body language of co-anchor Donna Hamilton when Stovall continued by saying, “What I hear from the community is that, ‘You know, you spend so much time focusing on the negative.’ I think we have done equally as well covering the positives.” Stovall then added with a shrug, “Take it for what it is.”

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