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How much should you charge for a photograph?Man Refuses To Open Door For Cops While Video Recording
Hector Nunez, the Massachusetts man who said he was assaulted last week by police who barged into his home without permission, received another visit from police officers Saturday night.
This time he refused to open the door, turning on his camera to capture the entire conversation.
The Haverhill police officers remained outside his door for more than 40 minutes, telling Nunez they needed to check on the welfare of his wife, who was telling them that she was okay.
He didn’t open the door until a couple of his relatives arrived.
In the video, he doesn’t open the door until the 11:24 mark, so if you get bored of staring at a door knob while hearing the back and forth between Nunez and the cops, just fast forward.
When he did open the door, the one cop was extremely cordial and professional. You almost feel sorry for the guy that he was kept waiting for more than 40 minutes.
The cop even acknowledged that Nunez had the right to record him.
But it was only last week that cops entered his house without permission, then threatened to arrest him for recording them.
So it's understandable why Nunez would be a little hesitant to open the door.
Nunez said an ongoing dispute between himself and his downstairs neighbor is the reason behind all the complaints against him.
This is how he described it in the Youtube description:
Police came to my home after being called by a neighbor. My wife and I were getting ready for bed. We attempted to explained to the police officers on call that our neighbors have a long history of fraudulent calls to police, due to past interventions with said neighbors.
The officers are caught on camera escalating the issue into a domestic dispute, when their was no such events occurring. The officers could be heard using a standard issued door-pump in an attempt to illegally open our door. Although we did nothing wrong, the officers refused to leave. Citing that an officer supposedly over heard us arguing. My brother and his wife rescued us from what could have potentially been a really bad end to a productive day. The officers said that we were heard by them in an argument, although we weren't doing such thing. This has to stop. The police that enforce law in my city need to start investigate the citizens being cited in a fashion that is thorough, progressive, and lawful. My neighbor, who called the police should have been questioned as to why they continuously call law enforcement to my home. I believe the police officers need to be brought to justice for their false claims. The officers repeatedly state that we were over heard having an argument, although the disturbance call was a fictional tale conjured up by our disgruntled neighbors.
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Turnabout is fair play. Start calling the police on the neighbor. At, like, 3AM. Then 4AM. etc.
Or file a complaint on the neighbor.
Or call your local television stations. They might be interested in this kind of thing.
I love this guy!! Are you sure this isnt staged? Too good to be true! "Wife are you ok?", "yes"...well that solves it then.......this is video gold!
It's a boring video but often, the most important parts of protecting our freedoms are indeed boring, stuffy and protracted.
I spent a good portion of my younger life as a paramedic and often had to take belligerent, arrogant cops who needed to keep their first responder skills current out into the field. I'll never forget the private and candid conversations I had with many of them when their guard was down. What I took away from that can be summed up in the statement of one of the cops who laughed his ass off when he told me about him taking a couple of "hippies" to jail on a trumped up charge of "littering" because he didn't like the way they "smelled," "never argue with a cop because we always have the last word, at least for that encounter."
After being victimized repeatedly by police at one point in my own life, I know the terror and misery they can inflict upon someone. They have far too much power, both through the militarization of their service and through their ability to lie, slant the situation, and plant evidence. This behavior is pervasive and no one is going to convince me that it is not. I know of some very good cops, but unfortunately, they are few and very far between. When people like this man stand up for themselves, the cops then want us to stop videoing. It isn't a secret to me why they so desperately want to ban the use of cameras in the course of their "duties," it forces them to play "fair" for a change and stops them from literally "getting away with murder."
The video I really want to see now is a judges reaction to seeing this video.
Next time he should order a pizza to be delivered to the officers.
"Next time he should order a pizza to be delivered to the officers."
Naw, you only do that for the undercover feds hiding in a step van.
At what point does this become official harassment? The cops already know that everything they do at this address is going to end up on YouTube and probably on the the local news.
This family should get a lawyer that has missed his rabies shots for the last decade and start dropping paper bombs on everyone.
I would have kicked in the door after a couple of minutes of his crap.
Ah, yes, the brute force tactic. And you wonder why so many in the general public hate your guts.
Right before a civil court judge would kick in the door to your bank account for the victim to take as damages.
Actually, it's the taxpayer's door which will get kicked in for JL violating the law and the person's civil liberties.
Hopefully in the future though, and through some solid legislation, settlements will start coming out of the personal checking accounts of cops.
That's when we'll actually start seeing a change in behavior.
Until then, not much will change and cops will continue to unlawfully kick doors in and lie about it afterwards.
Then what? What would you do on video?
I would then cuff him, search the house to ensure the wife and other occupants were okay. Then I would probably arrest him for refusing to open the door.
"Subject refused to open his door when I had neither warrant nor exigent circumstances allowing entry without a warrant, in violation of Section... ummm... Contempt of Johnny Troll."
You would kick in the door and arrest him when is his wife was telling you he she was okay and to come back with a warrant?
I knew you were a Troll! God damnit you got me good.
Hey JL, come kick in my door. Please. We can wrestle.
Any criminal thug who breaks down my door will be dealt with appropriately. Wearing a government clown costume will make no difference to the outcome: a criminal thug is a criminal thug regardless.
Johnny Troll has had a lot of break-through moments these last few weeks. Some posts have bordered on human. But our work is clearly not done.
Pun intended.
You won't be getting a hero's funeral after discovering your body armor can't cope with .30-06 at less than six feet.
Your family won't be getting the hero's pension either. Shot while committing multiple felonies? Shit, they're going to be in a homeless shelter after the lawsuit.
And you receiving a load of buckshot to the face after kicking in the door would have been 100% lawful, JL. No crime committed.
We have these things called laws in this country, and just because you swore an oath to uphold them, doesn't mean you get a free pass to violate them whenever you feel like it.
Hey Johnny Law, I'm in the state of Florida, come kick my door in and see what happens to your ass.
I'm not sure where I stand on police powers but I'm against abuse of those powers and the lack of accountability. There's got to be an answer but I don't know what it is. In the meantime, keep those cameras handy and record all that you can.
Lets give credit where credit is due... This time I would like to thank the police officer for his patience and for ensuring that everyone inside was actuality safe in there... It was a domestic disturbance call, if the man was beating his wife a simple "I'm fine" through the door would not have been acceptable. As a women I really appreciate his patience and his insistence that he needed to see for himself that everyone was fine. Come on police need to do there job it would have been easy to say everythings fine leave us alone and iside some poor women is getting the crap beat out of her... Thank you for not leaving... and no one really should be complaining about this.. thats over the top!
A right that can be ignored whenever people feel like it is a guideline, not a right. If the Constitution truly is a "living document" then it's worth less than toilet paper (toilet paper, at least, is usefully soft and absorbent).
Remember Tara, these are the same cop-haters that bitch and moan when they don't feel that the police are protecting and serving enough. So of course when a police officer does his best to make sure a woman isn't being abused, they will bitch that the police officer is trampling their rights.
You can't when with these people unless you include some insult about pigs or talk about how you are ready for a Waco style standoff in your house.
It's really amusing stuff.
What are you smoking? Those of us who know cops would never call one for help; that's about the most stupid thing anybody could do. Cops are predators and parasites, good for nothing but stealing and breaking heads of innocents. Once society regains sanity, they'll all be dealt with appropriately. And no, Mr. Paranoid, I mean fired. With a few exceptions for particularly egregious cases.
Didn't they have a warrant for Waco.. Just sayin...
I only call the cops to come get the guy, once we are done with him..
I gotta say kicking in the door without a warrant or CLEAR exigent circumstances with someone in immediate danger is an extremely dangerous scenario on your part JL, it is also clear police escalation of a non-violent situation, I wonder how that would play on the evenning news.
I have a better question, when are they going to whack the caller for these intrusions? Obviously there is something going on that needs to happen to them..
Ok i know Hector personally and this isnt staged the kid is actually considering moving to my state because of all this crap. Secondly why isnt anyone talking about the doorpump being used on the door. You can hear them trying to break in. Starting at 9:28 on the video
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