I'll be interviewed on MSNBC today


I bet those Maryland state troopers and that nameless judge who signed the warrant to allow them to raid Anthony Graber’s home never thought it would become a national issue.

It has. And it doesn’t appear that public opinion is falling on their side.

Not only has USA Today, The Washington Post, NPR and ABC News reported on the case in which Graber is facing 16 years in prison for uploading a video of a plainclothes cop pulling a gun on him during a traffic stop, MSNBC will be reporting on it today.

I am scheduled to be interviewed on MSNBC at 11:30 a.m. at the local studio, which is not the same building I used to work before I parted ways with NBC Miami.

The reason I am getting so much attention in this case is because I was the only reporter to have interviewed Graber after his 26-hour stint in jail. By the time the rest of the media picked up on the story – around the time my story had received more than 400 comments – he was no longer publicly speaking on the case under the advice of his attorneys.

I’m not sure if the interview will be live or if it will be aired later in the afternoon, but I’m sure it will be aired several times throughout the day as they do with most stories.

On Monday, I was interviewed on KGO Radio ( 11 minutes into the show) in San Francisco, where the big story is the Oscar Grant case – a perfect example of why citizens should be allowed to videotape cops without fear of getting intimidated or arrested.

Had Bay Area Rapid Transit police confiscated everybody’s cell phone as they tried to do, we probably would have seen a completely different outcome in that case.

The KGO Radio segment also featured Rich Roberts from the International Union of Police Associations, one of the officers who penned the laughable response to the USA Today editorial.

Roberts, who happens to live in Sarasota, made the same lame arguments he made in the article. Almost word by word.

But then he finished the segment by saying he believed people should have the right to videotape cops.

So I guess he’s no different than many cops in the way he double-talks.

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Anonymous

God job Carlos in helping bring police misconduct into the spotlight. Congrats on the coverage.
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Anonymous
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Give ‘em hell Carlos.
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Anonymous
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Let’s hope these motions get this POS case over with.

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File Date: 07/06/2010Close Date:
Party Type: DefendantParty No.:1
Document Name: Letter of Susan Parker to the Court enclosing exhibit #4

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File Date: 07/16/2010Close Date:
Party Type: PlaintiffParty No.:1
Document Name: State’s Answer to Defendant’s Motions To Suppress and Memorandum in Support of
its answer to Defendant’s Motion to Suppress based on the first amendment.

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File Date: 07/19/2010Close Date:
Party Type: PlaintiffParty No.:1
Document Name: State’s Answer to Defendatn’s Motion to Dismiss Counts one,two and three for failing to provide sufficient notice.

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(Anthony Graber case)

Anonymous
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Gotta get the judge’s name. Get his ass fired.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Excellent news, Carlos. I hope this is the start of a trend in exposing abuse of authority and condemning. Then again, it’s probably just a blip on the radar. Rodney King was news for a while, but police just switched from batons to tasers to do the same stuff, and our people tolerate it.
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Anonymous
Anonymous

I hate to be the voice of reason, but if that is 11:30 AM eastern time, that is the time that Lohan is supposed to report to jail. Since some talentless, self important drunk hitting the slammer is far more important than constitutional issues, your interview will most likely either not occur, or be bumped to a far later time.

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I guess it is being taped as the news of the day on MSNBC (it is 11:40 as I type this) appears to be Lindsay Lohan reporting to jail.

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We tune in to MSNBC at 11:30am and await the person with common sense. A person that has put his money where his mouth is. A person that has excellent writing skills and a subject of importance to everyday people as well as the news business. What we get is Lindsay the blond waste of time upstaging him. Well I guess that once again shows the high priorities of the news channels.

Anonymous
Anonymous

May be if he was not wearing underwear?

Anonymous
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Yes, I ended up being upstaged my Lindsay Lohan, who was reporting to jail at the same time as my scheduled interview.

I was already miked up and had the little ear piece on and I was sitting on the director’s chair in front of the camera in front of a beautiful backdrop of Miami when they told me the news.

So I’m scheduled to go back tomorrow at the same time. 11:40 a.m. to be exact.
Carlos Miller recently posted..ABC News brings more attention to the videotaping police-wiretapping issue

Anonymous
Anonymous

this is not RT or Al Jazeera, it’s MSNBC… what did you expect?

Anonymous
Anonymous

Weir a short skirt, no underwear and flash the camera as you get out. That out to do it.

Anonymous
Anonymous

&^%$$ spell check

Anonymous
Anonymous

Congratulations Carlos-WTG.

And please wear clean underwear.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Holy shit I hate the news. I mean this is just the textbook example of what is so wrong with it. Celebrity gossip belongs on E! This is why I enjoy watching Al Jazeera, RT and France 24 on the Roku more than any of the garbage called news on US cable.

Anonymous
Anonymous

The ABC story got exposure on local morning talk radio, Sean and Frank at WCBM.

Anonymous
Anonymous

maybe paint eff- you on a finger nail… that will get some attention… (BTW… you owe me $10…)
lol!
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Anonymous
Anonymous

I really wish they’d stop calling “news” since it’s nothing but well fabricated bullshit designed to steer people away from the truth.

Anonymous
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I’m supposed to go on live on MSNBC at 11:12 EST today.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Just saw your interview! Well done, on all fronts, Carlos!

Anonymous
Anonymous

Missed it, how do I get copy?

Anonymous
Anonymous

I think that if we started a national movement
to record as many interactions with Police as possible (both hidden cameras and disclosed taping)and post videos to a central site for public review and 1st overwhelm and bring light to the this
truly scary issue.Maybe call it CopWatch.org.The goal of the site would be to shed light on our publicly paid police practices
good and bad.I think if we embarrased the police
when they acted inapropratly on a national(interanation) scale we would curb some of the (who is watching the watcher abuses).The organtion would be a pro good cop site where proper police interactions could be rewarded with public reconition and potentially rewards (given by our organition)I have a believe that if all cops knew that there actions were being watched by the public that is paying them,that a paridime shift in how police interact with public.

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Carlos,
I just watched the video on MSNBC. Thank you so much for your support for my son. People have to remember (like you said) that this was a traffic stop and nobody should expect to have a gun pulled out on them during a traffic stop. Further, who would expect privacy on a public highway?

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