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Remember, there are always three sides to every story. His, the officer’s, and the truth.

The officers must have been having a tough day. The dog must have crapped on the floor before they left for work. They had a disagreement with thier wife. They are under a lot of stress. What other excuses can we give them for thier behaviour. If someone in any other stressful job behaved that way towards thier customers they’d be fired. I’m sure there are plenty of people that want that Miami Beach officers job.

Actually in a town like Miami Beach the cops get away with way more then in a normal town. There aren’t that many full time residents. If hey harass someone that’s visiting chances are the visitor isn’t going to complain and if it’s a visitor complaining there isn’t much the department is going to do because most visitors won’t have any political pull in that town.
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Moto said..

“Remember, there are always three sides to every story. His, the officer’s, and the truth.”

NOT if you talk to “Johnny Law”. As far as he’s concerned the first (victim’s) and the last (truth) sides don’t count.

After all.. Cop’s can do NO wrong.

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All bitching aside, I’d like to hear Miami Dade’s official response to this.
Think maybe a request for a statement would result in any?

Carlos, you make a great case for cops screwing with photographers, but what about cops lying, misstating facts, fabricating evidence, coercing witnesses, perjuring themselves under oath, etc… How can we worry about photographers civil rights when we have much worse and far more serious violations of our civil rights going on every day? Why hasn’t someone drawn attention to what goes on day in and day out with the cops down here?

At worse, you were facing misdemeanor charges when the cops screwed with you the first time, what about some of the cases I’ve been writing about where the cops targeted innocent people, arrested them on bullshit cases that they made up then had them sitting in jail to make $500,000 bail just so they could make a headline and help secure federal funding for their task forces?
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To be honest, I’d prefer that you not do the “calling out” on JL. He has his stance and it is not always wrong. (Butt Monkey coming) However, given that he thought going to the police report on an excessive force accusation would give him the “facts”, rather than a possibly biased and false reporting of the incident in order to save butt is indicative of why PDs should not police themselves, as well as a lack of depth on his part, because they begin with a bias towards the officer rather than a neutral stance.

It takes a greater strength to write a permanent truthful report that would get a you into trouble or fired than to face a transient physically violent situation. The assumption that simply because police deal with physical violence makes them automatically strong on integrity is more than fallacious, it ignores millennia of human truth. Unfortunately, a degree in “Criminal Justice” doesn’t seem to make that obvious.

As an aside, I’m beginning to believe that military personnel should be banned from police jobs for 5 to 10 years after the honorable discharge. The “us v. them” mentality seems to carry over too much. I’ve been in the military and saw too much of it, even in the USCG. It’s such an incredibly stupid, brain-dead, tribal mentality unless you are truly at war. Real war like Iwo Jima or Okinawa. Fallujah doesn’t qualify. If you can’t understand the difference, just ask, it has nothing to do with gunfire (hint: Okinawa and Iwo Jima were not “liberation”; France was, Iraq is even if Carlos disagrees, it has to do with stance). And, no, the “Drug War” doesn’t qualify either.

Unfortunately this happen a lot in Miami Beach, I went to the station to get information and fill out a report, an officer name Gracia from the K9 unit, was in the clerk, without stop drink his coffee, he didn’t let me talk and was very, very, very rude……I just hope his dog be more polite than him…..But the way I was so uncomfortable with the situation, that I said thank you and left without any help, that is the Miami Beach police department today a hang job for low educated people, but I make clear there are some good officer at the Miami Beach police also……The thing that I regret is that I was without my camera....

all the beach cop was doing was trying to help the gentleman stay healthy but suggesting he do sit-ups…and sarcastically suggesting that he not drink anymore so he wouldnt get sick…part of law enforcement is caring for your public!

‘Roid rage??

Even up here in Canuckistan the filth are getting into the “let’s beat the shit out of someone because we wear a badge made out of tin,” act, shameful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnwi6wO03As

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Victoria+police+chief+responds+kicking...
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You think Miami is bad, go up to Ocala/Marion County, the biggest industry
of that god-forsaken place is locking people up.

Florida…. come on vacation, leave on Probation.

BTW This website keeps getting slower and slower.

Situps can’t do much for a potbelly. Cardio is best!
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Well, no one likes getting tapped in the rear especially by a guy eating a slice
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Allow me to get that straw man for you… Fallujah, for the people that were there, was as real as war is ever going to be in this century.

Make no mistake, the people that stormed the cities in Iraq in the early to mid 2000s are suffering for it, a lot worse for the wear.

I had not heard of officer of the peace before.
The categories I know of are, 1 Peace Officer, 2 Law Enforcement Officer, 3 Government Agent,
and 4 Secret Policeman.
It is too long for this comment to discuss these categories, suffice it to say that 1 is the only sort you want to deal with.
Officers in article are 2 or 3.

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