Attorney Vincent Hughes was swarmed by reporters and self-acclaimed TikTok journalists last week when he exited the home of Jake and Rebecca Haro, who’d just been arrested on suspicion of killing their infant son Emmanuel.

As he walked from the home on Ramona Street in Cabazon on Aug. 22, onlookers heckled him with boos and insults and one man streaming from his phone barked out a question.

“How does it feel to defend a murderer?” he said, before eventually turning the camera back to himself and proudly telling his viewers. “I just asked him the question.”

In the last couple of weeks, the case of missing 7-month-old Emmanuel Haro has been the clarion call for independent journalists, online sleuths, and criminal case followers, some traveling across the country to California to chronicl

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