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The Miami-Dade police officer who had me arrested as I was covering the Occupy Miami eviction is a public information officer, meaning it is her job to deal with the media.
You would think Major Nancy Perez would have known better than to single out a reporter from the hordes of other reporters covering the eviction that night, even if she was not familiar with my face (or maybe she was).
And while it's true I was not wearing my press pass that night (I had left it in another camera bag), there is no law that requires journalists to wear credentials.
In fact, the Miami-Dade Police Department used to issue press credentials to qualified reporters, but they did away with them a few years ago because as one spokesman told me at the time, reporters don't have any more rights than non-reporters.
All she had to do was ask who I was covering it for and I would have told her Miami Beach 411, where I am a senior editor and have been covering Occupy Miami from the very beginning.
I would have given her my business card as I do to all police officers whom I come in contact with during my job.
But she gave me no chance to do any of that.
And worst, I imagine it was her who ordered the deletion of my footage because she was the only officer who had anything to lose by that video going public.
As you will see in the video I plan to post on Miami Beach 411 on Tuesday, most of the cops were acting very restrained, even if a handful of activists were taunting them.
Although the video I recovered, which is below, is a little choppy, I plan on having a forensics specialist recover the entire video without interruptions, who would also determine the time it was deleted.
And while I do plan to eventually file an internal affairs complaint against Perez, I have no confidence in a police department investigating one of its own members, which is why I also plan on filing a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice, who are not too keen on police officers deleting footage from the cameras of citizens.
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Carlos,
This is easy to explain. Since she's normally in the public affairs office she's got no experience leading an operation on the street. Since she's in the public affairs office she spends her time reading your blog and figuring out how to respond to you, so she knows your face.
But wow did she ever pack the pounds on since the picture in this post was taken. Must have had to get all new uniforms.
Yeah, she actually looks cute in the above picture; kinda monstrous in the video. Time to cut back on the enchiladas, dear! LOL
Cut the crap. There's more than enough to criticize about her actions, and you choose to make fun of her appearance? Get your priorities in order.
Beat me to it. She knew what you look like, and you fell into her lap, as it were.
PR should be handled by civilians. There is no reason to waste sworn officer resources (high risk retirement, hazardous duty pay, take home police car, etc.) for public relations work.
P.S. Major Nancy Perez has been with MDPD for 25 years and she earned $141,685 last year as a police spokesperson. Perez effectively retired last year and is in the FRS DROP program.
Cops ARE civilians. Only active duty sworn military are otherwise.
Link for the salary please...
$141K? That explains all the enchiladas! ;-)
Carlos
Your situation is very similar to the one involving Celeste Delgado who was also a reproter/photographer.
The aclu sued, do you know if there a settlement or was the matter dropped?
Looks like it was dismissed under "qualified immunity":
http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=18032302742018244874&hl=en&a...
--Jim
Thanks Jim
Take her down Carlos…
You're the man to do it and there's lots of us cheering for you.
Randi
SHE CAN ALWAYS TAKE OVER "ANA BANANA'S" JOB AS CONTRACT MANAGER AT 50 STATE SECURITY WHEN SHE GETS BOOTED OFF THE FORCE----OOOOPS-DON'T YOU HAVE A LAWSUIT AGAINST THEM ALSO, CARLOS?1 HOW IS THAT GOING? HOPE YOU OWN, AND DISBAND, THAT MOTLEY CREW OF MISFITS!
SHE CAN ALWAYS TAKE OVER "ANA BANANA'S" JOB AS CONTRACT MANAGER AT 50 STATE SECURITY WHEN SHE GETS BOOTED OFF THE FORCE----OOOOPS-DON'T YOU HAVE A LAWSUIT AGAINST THEM ALSO, CARLOS?1 HOW IS THAT GOING? HOPE YOU OWN, AND DISBAND, THAT MOTLEY CREW OF MISFITS!
I'm tempted to save the picture of that cop and doodle on it. (i.e. beard, mustache, glasses, etc.)
Wow, way to stick to the Man, Tom...
it is so obvious that she is very incompetant trying to do the job she was assigned. Why was she there?
during the eviction process (that is, when all those dozens of cops closed off the site of the encampment) she was in constant consultation with the media, giving them instructions and private information.
Carlos, for your information:
I attended the eviction to observe, with the express intention of avoiding arrest.
For much of the time I was near or with television media personnel as I figured they would be the safest people. At various times I witnessed private conversations going on between Perez and these television people. I often came very close to these conversation and Perez told me that the conversations were "private"
to which I of course replied that those people she was talking to were supposed to be journalists, and that she's not supposed to give special commands to journalists.
In any case, this occasion made it very clear that MDPD and these local corporate media outlets are in collusion.
So much for journalistic integrity.
Get this on film!
it might be, but unfortunately i was filming on ipad and android phone :/ and i made like 35 videos that night and haven't had the mind to go through it all
Carlos I love the way you have started using these cops official photos! Especially the photos of the Chiefs standing in front of the American Flag,and then stories below about civil liberties being violated.
Brilliant!
When will these cops learn to quit making fools of their selves? Great work Carlos! Go get em Big Dog!
What are you complaining about? She dealt with you.
Law$uit time. You should have a 42USC1983 template by now. Just fill in the blanks. Sick 'em Carlos!
As to why she would order the deletion of your footage...she can't believe how bad your camera made here appear. It made her look like she gained 40 pounds and sporting a little Nazi mustache under her nose.
So much class...
Class...class. Oh, you mean like kicking in someone's door if they legally refuse you entry?
Exigent circumstances. Look it up.
...a situation where people are in imminent danger, evidence faces imminent destruction, or a suspect will escape.
I've changed my mind; they should have kicked the door in and gone in guns drawn. You never know: that cigarette he said his wife was smoking outside could even have have been a MARIJUANA CIGARETTE !
Yeah, that mousy guy and his wife looked very dangerous. Coupled with the fact that cops had already been there several times before and knew damn well there was no danger there at all, I'd say that if they (or you) had kicked down the door, you'd have been sued.
Not that that ever stops cops from violating people's rights; after all, they don't pay the damages, the taxpayers of the city do. And yes, I am certain that cops, mostly, pay their taxes too.
They should. An information officer making 140k Jesus fuck!
For some LEO’s, making disparaging remarks about an officer’s appearance is more worthy of condemnation than documented instances of false arrest.
SHE HAS A DOGGY HOUSE WAITING FOR HER AT FIFTY STATE SECURITY---THEY LOVE MISFITS, PENGUINS, AND FLAKY CLIENTS ON LOW PAYING CONTRACTS----SHE CAN SPEND THE REST OF ETERNITY THERE!
I am sorry that you were arrested. Those who shrug it off as if it is no big deal, have no idea what they are talking about. Some would back off, I am glad you did not! I would like to encourage you to go forward and never give in to oppression. Never.
This story has made it to the big time, and is going to get some real attention. FARK.com is a site that gathers links to interesting and weird articles, and today they have this:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/journalist-recovers-vide...
FARK is very popular, and in the past has driven vast amounts of traffic to otherwise unknown stories. The site has links on the left, with a wise-guy description of what the link goes to on the right.
The article, and it's follow-ups, may well help educate the masses about photography and the law. Carlos has gained the knowledge and experiance developing his own site and moving to pixiq, and will now be headed for the big time. I picture simulcast speaches on huge screens at stadiums around the nation.
Darn, you beat me to posting this by about an hour.
double post
Today's Huffington Post posted a link to the Ars technica story. It's under Occupy Wall Street- "Journalist recovers Video Of Arrest After Police Deleted It."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Saw the video and I want my money back--all those
stormtroopers, and no Darth Vader, no
Luke Skywalker, no Death Star. The shame!
If You See Something, Film Something (Recording The Police is a Dangerous but Necessary Thing to Do)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxlL0I5AWLI&feature=player_embedded
What irony. The public information officer? That speaks volumes about the cop culture in the rest of the department. Pathetic.
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