“She began to describe what was on the clip. And the first question was, are we going to put video on the air of someone being killed? That's obviously a very bright line, editorial decision that you don't make every day. And normally we wouldn't. But to understand the sequence of events and what happened, you needed to see all of it”
- KSTP News Director, Kirk Varner describing the 5am phone call that alerted him to the video of George Floyd’s murder.