'Disorderly person' arrested for allegedly shouting racial slur, lunging at 'Today's' Craig Melvin

NBC’s “Today” amusement formed and unit dealt with an unexpected and unwelcome impermanent off-screen Thursday who was yet arrested by New York police.

A spokesperson for the New York Police Department confirmed successful a connection to The Times that officers responded astatine astir 9 a.m. to a study of a “disorderly person” astatine 30 Rockefeller Center, location of the greeting show’s studio. Police responded to the incidental and took the unidentified idiosyncratic into custody.

A spokesperson for NBC confirmed the “security incident” successful a connection shared with The Times, noting that an idiosyncratic entered “an unauthorized area” and “approached” co-anchor Craig Melvin, who notified security. According to TMZ, the alleged intruder was searching for Al Roker but alternatively turned his absorption to Melvin erstwhile helium couldn’t find the longtime weatherman. The antheral reportedly lunged and yelled the N-word astatine Melvin. TMZ connected Thursday besides published a photograph of Melvin and Roker speaking to each different and co-anchor Dylan Dreyer portion surrounded by galore unit members.

No injuries were reported and constabulary volition proceed to analyse the incident, the connection added. The “Today” spokesperson said accumulation is afloat complying with instrumentality enforcement amid its probe and is reviewing the incidental and information measures.

“NBC and ‘Today’ instrumentality the information and information of our employees, talent, unit and guests highly seriously,” the connection said, adding that accumulation remains “committed to providing a harmless and unafraid situation for everyone who works astatine and visits our studios.”

Thursday’s occurrence marks the latest information interest for “Today,” which reportedly beefed up constabulary and backstage information beingness successful February successful airy of the kidnapping earlier this twelvemonth of Nancy Guthrie, parent of “Today” amusement co-host Savannah Guthrie.

Nancy Guthrie, 84, was reported missing from her location successful Arizona connected Feb. 1. Law enforcement officials judge Guthrie was taken against her volition from her Catalina Foothills home; her phone, wallet, car and medicine were near behind. The probe into her abduction is ongoing.

Savannah Guthrie returned to her “Today” station successful April and announced during Thursday’s broadcast that she volition beryllium absent “the adjacent fewer weeks” to movie NBC’s TV adaptation of the fashionable New York Times puzzle Wordle. She volition big the crippled show, which is acceptable to debut connected NBC adjacent year.

Times unit writer Stephen Battaglio contributed to this report.