MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell Criticizes Cops As Aggressors
Veteran reporter Lawrence O'Donnell of MSNBC delivered harsh words against the New York City Police Department for arresting hundreds of people without just cause. He especially berated them for arresting a man with a video camara.
“The reason that man is being assaulted by the police is because of what he has in his hand,” O’Donnell said, while showing a video clip of a man with a video camera being tackled by police. “He’s holding a professional grade video camera. Since the Rodney King beating was caught on an amateur video camera, American police officers have known video cameras are their worst enemy. They will do anything they can to stop you from legally videotaping how they handle their responsibility to serve and protect you.”
“Everything those cops did this weekend to those protesters they’ve done to someone else when no video camera was rolling,” he later added.
Perhaps this is the media coverage the protesters were hoping for all along.
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Comments
This is beautiful.
That video is awesome.
Lawrence was fired up and pissed off. He laid into the NYC cops in his trademark relentless fashion and it was beautiful.
This is great! After this I am fired up. What can I do to make sure this story doesn't die?
finally
I was raging internally reading and watching that video. Must.. contain.. rage!
(My two daughters were eating cereal next to me)
So maybe Drudge, Agitator, and InjusticeEverywhere can keep this going with the support of a few sites all referencing each other.
A little celebrity support and a sound bite could help to extend general interest for a good week I hope.
I'm not a fan of MSNBC, but I think this video is great! I'm glad to see someone in the mainstream media with the balls to speak out against violent cops.
Some wonder why I fear for my life in NYC. This shows exactly why. I'm also very afraid to fly any where near NYC now that Police Commissioner Kelly has disclosed that the NYPD has the ability to take down an airplane.
About time someone in the MSM grew some balls! It wouldn't surprise me, though, if he's made to apologize; if that happens, watch for those balls to fly away. I doubt very much that he has the courage to tell his employer to F*** off.
He's wrong on the guy in the green shirt and orange bandana. It takes watching a few different videos to piece it together, but everyone had been ordered up on the sidewalk. A tall black man steps off the sidewalk and the police grab him to arrest him. While they're arresting him, the green shirt guy comes over and gets extremely close to the arrest, probably trying to speak with or maybe even touch the arrestee. I think it was a pretty bad idea to get that close to an arrest.
Watch from 30 seconds on this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMoKsZp5iao
And 30 seconds on this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf6m_w7K8XM
The attack on the women who were just yelling and photographing from behind the barricade was the absolute worst, though.
Must smash faces cuz... uh... traffic! Yea, that's it! Nevermind the fact the street was cordoned off, faces must be smashed.
Someone stepped off the curb? How dare he refuse to be penned in and hosed down with chemical weapons? That's just distinctly un-American.
I noticed that too. It wasn't the fact that he had a camera that lead to that altercation, it was clearly his actions. It doesn't make the head bashing right but if he did the same thing without a camera in his hands things probably would have gone the same way.
More NYPD/Photography nonsense
Angry Cop Accosts Visitor To 9/11 Memorial For Taking Photographs
http://myrightsusa.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/angry-cop-accosts-visitor-to...
Has anyone noticed the complete lack of commentary about these incidents from Johnny Law and LawMan?
White shirts are the new brown shirts.
It's situations like this (and in Injustice Everywhere), that help to pit general public opinion against the Police.
Every day the average Cop is placing him/her self in a situation where (because of fellow "Badge Bullies"), the general public might refuse to help them when and if needed.
As a example.. let's look at a hit and run scenario where a Cop is injured (and because of his/her injuries), is only able to help out with minimal information in the investigation.
The Police canvas the area going door to door looking for witnesses. All of a sudden you have the public who didn't see anything because they weren't wearing their (wink, wink) "READING" glasses. Or the public that didn't hear anything because their hearing aids just happen to (wink, wink) "STOP WORKING" right at that time.
Let's face it. The more crap like this that continues, the less help the Cops are going to get.. especially if and when they might need it the most.
Rail Car Fan
"hobo with a shotgun" baby, "hobo with a shotgun!"
And you don't even need to be holding a camera...
http://www.freep.com/article/20110926/NEWS01/110926049
“After a review of the tape it was determined that we did not have sufficient evidence to proceed and the case was dismissed.”
The guy was certainly being argumentative but nothing warranting getting sucker punched twice then having your ribs broken while you lay dazed and motionless.
“The police flat-out lied to cover up what happened,” Mueller said.
“They charged my guy with assault on a police officer because the officer hurt his hand when he was punching my client? That’s pretty much how egregious it is.”
It's obvious that the police hate us for our freedoms.
Pretty much. Police as a class view the Constitution and especially the Bill of Rights as impediments to doing their "job".
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