Baltimore Mayor Urges News Networks to Stop Showing Video of Key Bridge Collapse

“No one needs to see a possibility of their family member being severely injured or otherwise over and over again,” Mayor Brandon Scott tells CNN

CNN Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott
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Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott joined CNN on Tuesday to discuss the state of a collapsed bridge in the city and urged news networks to stop airing the footage of the collapse as it is “traumatizing our community.”

The Francis Scott Key Bridge, a major bridge in Baltimore collapsed on Tuesday after being hit by a cargo container ship, sending at least eight people into the Patapsco River. As a National Transportation Safety Board team is dispatched to the site of the collapse, preliminary investigations indicated that the incident was an accident. 

“We have an unspeakable tragedy,” Scott told CNN’s Sara Sidner.

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