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Mr Sarnoff needed to distract the citizens attending the meeting so they wouldn’t notice how badly the commisioners were ass raping them…
The Straw Buyer recently posted..You ever want something so bad

To be honest, it sounds like the cameraman may have started this (but that’s a definite “maybe” because most of the details are from the police report), but even in that case it doesn’t sound like he did anything serious enough to warrant a felony charge. I don’t really see the purpose of charging him with a felony either, it kinda cheapens the whole charge of “battery of a law enforcement officer” in the public’s mind. This kinda falls under the boy who cried wolf. If they use that charge for mediocre stuff, people are going to stop believing them when it was actually _serious_. Which makes it more difficult for cops to do their jobs properly because it lowers people’s respect of them.

I await evidence presented in his defense during his trial. I suspect he dissed the cop’s authoritay and was physically attacked. In either case, I just hope the camera was running.

As for the crying wolf, it doesn’t make the impact it should and people are charged with felonies for misdemeanors all the time. All it takes is pissing off a cop.

Shooot, I once got a traffic ticket and the cop wrote it up as if I had caused a bus full of orphans to drive off a cliff to their death. “Failure to yield” can be a minor ticket or it can be a major one. Funny thing was, I wasn’t the one driving like a maniac, the cop was. Got to court and the cop’s story no way resembled what happened in any way. He made up a completely unrelated story, how can you defend against that? Anyway, back on subject. Charging people with felonies for minor things won’t get people to stop believing them if half of what they already say are lies. I would estimate that at least HALF of everything that comes out of cops’ mouths are lies. And people still believe them in court because he’s wearing a uniform and has 14 years of service.

One might also wonder if surveillance cameras were in the area or if a microphone recording the proceedings in the adjacent room picked up any audio.

The arrest report just doesn’t add up. It states “Def. stated “I’m just doing my job”. Def struck Sgt. Carvil with a camera tripod on his back…” Seems to me that the officer that wrote up the report may have omitted some key elements of what actually happened.

It doesn’t make sense for the camera man to have said that to the officer, then immediately strike the officer. Something is missing from the time he said “I’m just doing my job” to the time he allegedly struck the Sgt. in the back with his tripod.

Could it be that he was moving the tripod at the time, and accidentally bumped into the officer with it, and the cop was just looking for an excuse to arrest someone? Maybe, but the report sure as hell doesn’t tell the whole story.

I hope he is doing well after all of this…

Maybe they (CBS4) are avoiding saying anything about it because they don’t want to mess up a possible defense. Taking no stance and giving no facts or information about it might help him out in the end.

J,

Maybe you’re right but when you’re in the news business and you deliberately avoid reporting on the arrest of one of your own cameraman who was working at the time, then it doesn’t look good.
Carlos Miller recently posted..More details on the arrest of a CBS4 cameraman but not from CBS4

Your right, it does not. Reserving comment until more information available.

Rance, “Could it be that he was moving the tripod at the time, and accidentally bumped into the officer with it, and the cop was just looking for an excuse to arrest someone? Maybe, but the report sure as hell doesn’t tell the whole story.”

This…

Its PUNK cops like that I just LOVE to hear about in the news that get clipped in the line of duty!

Jo
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