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These videos are disgusting. This is a total lack of regard for the first amendment and a total abuse of power by MCSO.

These officers should be reprimanded and or fired.

Pathetic.

Heil Hitler. Long Live The 4th Reich of the United Tyrannical States of America.
The constitution is just a piece of paper. long live tyranny.

Isn’t joe aprio the sheriff that instituted the concentration camp-esque prison camps in arizona?

isn’t that where he got the name “toughest sheriff in the country”?

My guess is they will escalate to killing him.

The US is a gigantic Stanford Prison Experiment that can’t be stopped by the professor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

genewitch,

No they aren’t “concentration camp-esque prison camps”, they are no different than many military encampments, except they did have swamp coolers before the idiots destroyed them. It was originally an answer to overcrowding at County and to avoid the building of more jails. My main problem with them is that he houses those awaiting trial with those convicted. But how many jails actually make the distinction? I don’t know.

The chain gangs have been overblown also, because unlike those as practiced throughout the US in the early 20th Century, especially the South, Arpaio’s are voluntary and generally get the prisoners out of the camps or County, although it may be exclusively “Tent City”.

Arpaio is a buffoon in many ways, but I prefer to attack him honestly rather than through distortion. His major problem, besides self-promotion and aggrandizement, is the same you see illustrated here or Injustice Everywhere or numerous other sites . Above the law because he’s the law, followed by the usual denials when caught.

I hope you sue them for violating your civil rights. They had no right to delete photos which are your property.

Please update us with more information when it is available.

I want to publicly thank Carlos Miller for his courageous and truthful blog, and for standing up against hypocrisy.

the day will come when those cops will be in our line of fire. We the People will not tolerate their dictatorship attitudes. Therefore they are the enemy and we will defend ourselves with our guns and give them a taste of their own medicine. Beat the Crap out of them is what needs to be done!

Umm. No it won’t. They just needed to be educated. We need the cops to catch the criminals. They just need to be reminded who are the criminals and who are the law-abiding citizens. All employees need retraining or continuing education from time to time, even public ones.

Where in the law it sayst that you can’t film detectives? Are they magically immune to 1st amendment. What a bunch of douchebags.
If there’s undercover officers on public they can’t be photographed??? WTH?

hahaha, Patriot2012 is one of those State agent tools who prowl the internet trying to provoke people into spouting violence against cops. You need more buzzwords Patriot!

This stuff is great. Keep doing this. Everyone should carry a camera at all times. Sheriff Joe is on his way out. One camera is worth 100 assault rifles.

JR, there are a lot of laws that only apply when one of Arpaio’s deputies are around. It’s a funny sort of county.

I believe there has to be an actual violation of your rights. If you are being harassed and are told to shut your camera off; then you comply…I don’t believe a violation of the law has taken place. Of course, I’m not a lawyer, but my understanding is the courts require an actual violation, not just the steps leading up to the violation.

Find a lawyer in your area who would be willing to take your case if it ever gets to that level. Chances are they will let you know what steps you and the officer need to take to reach the threshold for litigation.

good luck

edit: sorry didn’t read it before posting

EdinMiami: “steps leading up to” is usually defined in law. Sometimes it’s called conspiracy (to commit X), sometimes it’s called assault, sometimes it’s defined as “attempted”

If a normal citizen without cop status came up to you and said “either you stop filming or i will physically assault you, cause physical pain, physically restrain you and then use restraints (handcuffs), destroy your property (delete photos), and then deprive you of liberty (arrest and detention)…”
Well that’s assault, battery, kidnapping, vandalism, &c, &c.

get it? A lot of people here just want to see the cops receive the same “justice” that civilians do in the same circumstances.

Or am i off base?

genewitch,
“A lot of people here just want to see the cops receive the same “justice” that civilians do in the same circumstances.

Or am i off base?”

I think you exactly right. Sadly, it seems that many time these offending officers just receive some minor administrative reprimand or at worst lose their jobs. The idea that a civilian would be offered the lose of employment instead of incarceration would be out of the question. So it should be out of the question for LEOs.

The double standard needs to end.

The idea of an orchestrated day of resistance mentioned earlier is a great idea.

Right but still off base. I’ll try to explain my position better.

Let’s take Assault as an example. Assault is defined in the Restatement of Torts, as:

1) An actor is subject to liability for assault if:
a) he acts intending to cause a harmful or offensive contact with the person of the other or a third person, or an imminent apprehension of such a contact, AND
b) the other is thereby put in such imminent apprehension.

(this probably doesn’t work as well when police are involved but let’s use it as an example nonetheless)

My point is that once you become a person of “high interest” to the police, it is necessary to understand your role in the scenario. In the first video, we see the officer crossing the street towards the photographer. The photographer, once confronted, begins to move away from the officer. It may be that the officer does in fact meet the first element of Assault “intent to cause”. However, the second element is just as important. The Injured Party (photographer) must be in imminent apprehension of a harmful or offensive contact. From the video, we might infer that he is calmly walking away from the officer. If there was fear, would he walk away or stand still? I’m not sure. But what if he had stood his ground, refused to move, and refused to show his “identification”. The incident may have escalated to Battery or False Imprisonment (assuming those elements were met).

I agree that the officer’s conduct is reprehensible. The conduct itself may not be enough without some other overt act. In other words, I think the courts will look to see if the citizen drew a legal line in the sand, and did the officer willfully step over it.

Does that make more sense?

If Galindo wants to create compelling footage he needs to hold onto his camera. Sheriffs badgering him like 4 year olds in a toystore fails to shock. He seems to be trying to draw out these stupid lectures from the sheriffs but they are just boring. That’s all they have to do to get him to erase pictures, stand around and say wawa wawa wawa?

Galindo was featured on nationally syndicated radio show free talk live sat night. It was a great interview.

freetalklive.com

http://cdn2.libsyn.com/ftl/FTL2009-09-12.mp3?nvb=20090913121838&nva=2009...

A typical ill trained Nazi who believes his badge is above the U.S. Constitution. As for the sheriff who acts in a manner like Heinrich Himmler, one must ask this qestion why and how is he in office?