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

Onlookers heckled him with boos and insults. One man streaming from his phone barked out a question.

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

In the last couple weeks, the case of missing 7-month-old Emmanuel Haro has been a clarion call for independent journalists, online sleuths and criminal case followers — some of whom traveled across the country to California to chronicle developments.

They have set up lawn chairs outside the Haro home and livestreamed; some have

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