A Vivid Reminder As To Why We Should Never Back Down From Recording Cops
A collection of various videos that we have seen on this blog over the years were compiled into a Youtube video to serve as a powerful and vivid reminder why we must never back down from recording cops, even if they threaten us with arrest.
I'm not sure who created the video, but it was uploaded over the weekend to Gramrastag's Youtube channel and starts off with the memorable Memorial Day incident on Miami Beach where cops ordered a man out of the car at gunpoint for video recording them shooting another man to death.
It also features the more recent video of a Los Angeles sheriff's deputy elbowing a mentally ill woman on a bus who was not physically threatening him.
It runs under five minutes so it's worth watching, even if it's not telling us anything we don't already know.
Please send stories, tips and videos to carlosmiller@magiccitymedia.com
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Comments
Great editing job! You need to raise money to buy network air time and run this on TV!
Thank you Mark! And thank you Pixiq for promoting this!
Thanks guys, never thought this video would do so well....
Occupy LA Protester Sergio Ballesteros Arrested At Artwalk For Alleged Lynching!!!
Los Angeles' bi-weekly art walk recently got a taste of the confrontations between Occupy protesters and the LAPD.
The video above begins in the middle of a chaotic scene, making it difficult to verify what prompted the scuffle, but LAist reports that Sergio Ballesteros was indeed arrested and is currently in custody with bail set at $50,000.
According to LAist and Sue Basko, a lawyer who has been advising Occupy L.A., police were monitoring a crowded sidewalk when a drummer thus far only identified as Adam stepped off the curb. Police then immediately swarmed and arrested Adam, according to Basko.
In the ensuing frenzy, police appear to have knocked Ballesteros and a woman Basko identifies as Ballestero's girlfriend to the ground. Ballesteros is then arrested and charged with "lynching," which the California penal code defines as "the taking by means of a riot of any person from the lawful custody of any peace officer."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/16/sergio-ballesteros-occupy-la-ar...
Joe, I e-mailed that story to Carlos, but he didn't post it.
I'd watch, but I'm positive my blood pressure would rise to unsafe levels.
Chicago Cops Called Predatory & Abusive After Woman Records Internal Investigation Using Her Blackberry.
A woman claims a Chicago cop sexually groped her during a putative investigation, and when she complained, other officers pressured her to withdraw the complaint, and threw her in jail on bogus charges when she refused.
Tiawanda Moore says defedant Officer Jason Wilson and his partner went to her home on July 6, 2010, "in response to a previously reported domestic dispute."
Moore, 21, says her then-boyfriend allowed the officers into the home "and Officer Wilson went upstairs to the bedroom where Ms. Moore was located to interview Ms. Moore."
The federal complaint continues: "During his interview, Officer Wilson physically groped Ms. Moore's breasts and buttocks.
"Before leaving the bedroom, Officer Wilson wrote his home phone number on a piece of paper and told Ms. Moore to call him because they should 'hook-up'.
Ms. Moore called the Chicago Police Department to report Officer Wilson's misconduct."
At Chicago Police headquarters, Moore says, she met with defendant Internal Affairs investigators Richard Plotke and Luis Alejo.
"Instead of investigating Ms. Moore's complaint and arresting Officer Wilson, IAD investigators worked to discourage Ms. Moore from filing the complaint," the complaint states.
It continues: "After Ms. Moore described the assault and inappropriate conduct by Officer Wilson, Defendants Plotke and Alejo sought to prevent Ms. Moore from proceeding with an official complaint against Officer Wilson.
"Ms. Moore asked that two new officers be assigned to help her file her complaint, Lt. Plotke refused to reassign new personnel.
"When Ms. Moore got up to leave the interview room, Lt. Plotke closed the door and told her to sit down and that she was not going anywhere.
"While under a reasonable suspicion that the officers had committed a crime, were about to commit a crime and were committing a crime against her, Ms. Moore recorded the conversation with defendant Officers on her Blackberry telephone.
"During several minutes of recording, defendants Plotke and Alejo attempted to convince Ms. Moore to the drop the complaint.
"When defendants Plotke and Alejo suspected that Ms. Moore's Blackberry, which was sitting on the table between them, was recording their conversation they stopped the conversation and arrested her.
"Defendants Plotke and Alejo wrongfully arrested Ms. Moore and charged her with violating the Illinois Eavesdropping Statute. The statute, however, specifically exempts persons who record 'under reasonable suspicion that another party to the conversation is committing, is about to commit ... a criminal offense against the person ... and there is reason to believe that evidence of the criminal offense may be obtained by the recording.' 720 ILCS § 5/14-3.
"Defendants Plotke and Alejo knew that by stopping Ms. Moore from leaving the interview room and attempting to prevent her from filing a complaint against Officer Wilson they were committing the crimes of unlawful restraint, official misconduct and were attempting to commit the crime of obstruction of justice.
"As a result of the arrest, Ms. Moore spent over two weeks in Cook County Jail and was forced to spend a year fighting the baseless criminal charge.
"On August 25, 2011, a jury in the Cook County Circuit Court found Ms. Moore not guilty."
Moore seeks punitive damages for constitutional violations, false arrest and malicious prosecution. She is represented by Robert Johnson with Smith Johnson.
Court Filing: http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/01/16/Chicops.pdf
Hey CARLOS!! http://dreyerphotographic.blogspot.com/ you covered this in another post this is part 2
Carlos,
Antonio Buehler arrested in Austin for photographing cops arresting woman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nZodsXxSgY
Carlos,
Here's some more for you all from the same guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNFBY3ICBtA&feature=channel_video_title
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkWUefN1FWw&feature=channel_video_title
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB9onHGG3SM&feature=channel_video_title
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JNQ5ImSfqg&feature=channel_video_title
The officer at 2:29 in this video does not deserve to be included. Regarding this officer:
"If you walk up to a cop and shove him hard as the girl did in the video, you give him the green light to destroy you." --Carlos Miller
http://www.pixiq.com/article/11128
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Great video!
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