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Shocking.

Update:

http://www.ktsm.com/news/manager-reacts-to-officer-confrontation

It is interesting how this officer, and others I have seen, seem to go down a laundry list of reasons to confront photographers.

1. It is for the privacy/integrity/HIPAA rights for the patient.
2. You are obstructing traffic, or obstructing the emergency personnel.
3. You are disobeying a lawful order of a police officer.
4. Why are you taking pictures, and then some implication that you are a pervert, or some kind of weirdo for taking pics.
5. Then demanding to see ID, hoping you have some kind of warrant or a criminal record they can use to intimidate.
6. You can’t take pictures because this is private property, pictures are not allowed, or just because the officer says so.

This incident seems like so many others. Throw out an order, or implication and see what intimidates the photographer to stop.

Tell me “Johnny Law”.. how you going to spin this one? Oh I forgot, as far as you’re concerned cop’s are GOD and can do NO wrong!!

Rail Car Fan

Photographing a joovenile!
A joo0venile!!
The nerve!
The outrage!
The humanity!!!

Once again, little piggy that can’t seem to understand you don’t piss off people who buy ink by the barrel and paper by the metric ton.

Got nothing on this one. Cop was being stupid about the whole thing. I suppose he could have arrested the cameraman for being in the street if he really wanted it to stop. I personally don’t give a damn if you film a wreck I am working.

Rail Car Fan,

Take your medication and relax. You are a little too shrill, even for this site.
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Last time it was channel 7, now it’s channel 9. TCP, typical cop behavior. In this case there is no way short of a very long lens that you could make out the victim. He was far enough away from the scene not to be interfering. The cop was being a total idiot. You can obviously see this guy has no reasoning power. He was repeating memorized snippets taught at the police academy. No wonder they disqualify cop applicants with IQs over 100. This one is well short of that number (as are nearly all of them these days).

If he wanted, huh?

Not because he was in the way, or breaking any laws, but because he wanted to? Niiiiice…

Well the arrest for being in the street would be a completely legal arrest. The decision to arrest or not falls under the discretion of the arresting officer.

“Johnny Law”..

It looks like you’re now trying to practice medicine. You’ve done about as good of a job of it as you have trying to be a cop.

I’ll tell you right now, you’ll never win a war of words with me.. so don’t even try. Just go back believing how important you think you really are and leave it at that.

Until next time..

Rail Car Fan

He wasn’t in the street. He was in a driveway.

That can be fixed in the report.

“According to Grizzard, he admits standing in the turn-off into the Village Inn on the same corner.”

According to the linked new story, the reporter was either in the street or obstructing a driveway. Either one is a violation. I’m not saying he should have been arrested for it but the officer was certainly legally able to make an arrest if he wanted to.

And you keep on being an angry angry man ranting away on the internet.

Because you’ll drag him down to your level and beat him with experience?

Johnny Law may be the poster child for authoritarian behavior on this blog, but you calling him out every time a story gets posted makes you look like a tool. His posts are at least sensible and I can see where he is coming from, even if I don’t agree with it. You and some other posters here do nothing but ad-hom and talk about conspiracy theories.

On a different but related note, anyone who continually refers to all cops as “little piggies” or anything of that nature – shut up and buy a clue.

“Johnny Law”..

Is that the only thing you can come up with when it comes to a reply? If it is, then I gave you much more credit than I should have.

One only writes replies like that when they’re unable to come up with anything more substantial in both thought.. and word.

As I said before.. you’ll never win a war of words with me.. so don’t even try. Just go back believing how important you think you really are and leave it at that.

Until next time..

Rail Car Fan

What would you like me to reply to? Your ridiculous comments about how I supposedly think cops are “Gods”? For me to post something substantial, you have to post a rational comment first.
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You give yourself a lot of credit that I can find little support for.

The practice of “paging Johnny Law” is not only absurd, but really places you in an inferior position on later arguments.

He’s frequently wrong but he’s willing to post in a hostile environment, and defend his positions. And, he doesn’t engage (as often) in the ad hominem attacks I see so frequently directed at him.

So, in short, why not attack his position, instead of him? And if he hasn’t posited a position, then I suggest you keep your opinion about what his opinion might be to yourself. You just look like an ass.

Yeah, let Johnny provide his own rope – he’ll hang himself shortly. No need to go shouting for him.
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The public comments are a lot scarier than the actual incident. Which seems par for the course for photographer harassment reported in mainstream media.

I’m all for publishing grisly pictures. If violent deaths/injuries were reported as something more memorable than dry statistics maybe fewer people would drive like drunken idiots/join gangs.

It’s interesting how different attitudes are in Mexico–they’ve got a whole genre of splatter tabloids “la nota roja” (plus homicidal drug cartels providing a steady stream of subjects). But I’m guessing an American Alarma! would be hip deep in lawyers before issue #2.

An NSFW (not to mention not safe on a full stomach) issue of Alarma! someone scanned and posted on Issuu: http://issuu.com/jossgoree/docs/no.884
(the magazine’s actual site at http://www.nuevoalarma.com.mx/ no longer does full issues)

It takes two to tango. Or do you somehow post your rants without the aid of the internet?

Seriously, it scares me someone as pitifully stupid as you is entrusted with firearms and arrest powers.

Not that I think Rail Car Fan is any better than you, mind you. You two are made for each other.

The maturity level sure is high on this posting. Thanks for contributing Mr. Goldfish.
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I have to agree with Kyle and torgeaux on this one.

Is it a lawful order if the officer has no authority to issue it? For that matter, if an officer orders you to commit a crime, is it a crime to disobey?