Could a reporting team have positioned themselves differently so their presence wouldn't create a reaction?
Here's the situation:
Students and professors at Great State University were upset that the school had no plans to change the name of an academic building named after a slaveowner. The students organized a silent march with hundreds of participants through the heart of campus.
The local public television station decided to report on the march. A reporter and camera person set up under the shade of a tree about 25 yards away from the academic building where the march was scheduled to end. The crew started filming as the marchers began approaching the building.
A couple of nearby students, apparently realizing that the TV camera was filming, decided to cause a scene. They threw rocks at the building and broke a window. What had been a quiet, peaceful march suddenly turned chaotic as police and university officials intervened. Later, the march organizers said the students who threw the rocks were not part of the march and only acted out because of the cameras.