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A videographer who was roughed up by Los Angeles police officers last year during a Critical Mass ride through Hollywood has filed a lawsuit.
According to the Contra Costa Times:
Manuel Gallegos claims he was riding east with other members of "Critical Mass," an activist bicycling group that organizes mass rides that disrupt motor traffic, the night of last May 28, when he stopped to shoot a video on his cell phone after seeing officers pull a boy off his bicycle near the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue.
About 400 bicyclists rode down Hollywood Boulevard to protest the British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
According to his lawsuit, filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, shortly after recording an officer allegedly kicking a cyclist's tire, Gallegos was "chased down by LAPD officers, who tackled him, dragged him off his bicycle and proceeded to beat and kick him."
One officer stomped on his phone "in what is believed to be an attempt to destroy evidence of the unlawful conduct of the LAPD officers," according to the complaint, which alleges civil rights violations, intentional infliction of emotional distress, assault and battery and negligence.
The Contra Costa Times didn't feel it was important enough to include the actual video, but we have it here because we reported on it when it first happened.
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"...members of Critical Mass have been known to stop in intersections, get off their bikes and twirl them above their heads."
The Contra Costa Times does, however, deserve an award for the most entertaining description of corking an intersection yet. XD
To assault a citizen is not acceptable. Period.
I can't wait to hear J Laws twist on how officers were just doing their jobs.
Well since you asked...
It depends on what was going on off camera. Were the police trying to stop that biker before the officer kicked his tire? I heard a siren just before the biker rode by. Then immediately after the officer kicked the tire, he motions towards the direction of the biker and an officer is walking in that direction.
It kinda looks like they may have wanted to stop the biker and sounding the siren didn't work. We don't know what happened prior to that or if other officers had tried to stop him. So if they were trying to stop him for some reason, the officer would have been justified in kicking his tire to stop him.
Now if the officer was just being a dick and kicked the biker for no reason, then yes he needs to be punished for that. So my answer is that it depends on the situation and none of us know the details.
As for the cameraman, he was cited for some violation so he can fight that in court. If he was committing some violation such as being in the roadway, then the officers were in fact doing their jobs.
Alright, ignoring the biker your saying its ok to take down someone without giving them a chance to comply with a police request or even giving one, from what I saw in the video, then beating them and trying to destroy evidence?
That wasn't an arrest, it was a mugging.
Back to the dramatics again?
All I saw in the video was the video camera falling to the ground. You don't hear the police beating on the guy. All you hear is him asking what he did. He was obviously in the street and screaming. The police took him into custody.
Did you see any kicking? Did you see any blows being thrown?
Big whoop. No case here.
It does look like cops always seem to go after the guy with the camera. I wish they'd get used to the fact we are in the digital age and it's likely that someone is going to be filming what they are doing.
I could see why the Contra Costa Times did not cover this too closely. Contra Costa county (Where the Times is located) is located in the suburbs east of San Francisco - Roughly 370 miles to the north. I am surprised that some LA area papers did not cover this.
Exactly. If you look at the link, it says the article is from wire service reports. So probably an AP story, not locally written by the Contra Costa Times
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