Pixiq

Looks like Pniewski is up for a nice, early retirement. Assuming he can get a lawyer who has even a tiny amount of competency. Unfortunately it will come from the taxpayers and the cop won't face any repercussions for it.

He won't need a lawyer. The charges will be dropped and Mr Pniewski will be released before he ever sees a lawyer. This is how the police make themselves feel better: by throwing innocent people in jail for a few hours so they get the idea that questioning the illegal commands of a law enforcement officer is a bad idea.

I think if the Occupy Wall Street protests have taught us anything, it's that the people of this country are fed up. A day of reckoning is coming and, frankly, I'm tired of waiting for it. Let's get it over with! Revolution or economic meltdown. Pick one and make it happen.

He's well out of handgun or knife range, way past anything remotely imaginable in a Tueller Drill, but the officer wants this "threat" to move out of sight but within rifle range?

Yeah, good luck making that appear reasonable.

"I told you to leave the area".. He backed up..

Hm, under what authority? As a free citizen I don't answer to cops. This cops illusionary safety reason was obviously not important enough to move their cars or the person standing by the car.. And he may have had a gun or a knife, and in many cases that wouldn't be illegal, so again, SO WHAT!

This around the corner bit is too much.. If there was some risk like explosives then they would have moved their cars and not been looking through the car, so it is pretty clear they didn't like the fact that their unlawful orders were not obeyed and they didn't like being recorded.

I come back to it once again, if cops want respect they had better understand that we don't answer to THEM, our rights supercede THEM and if they don't get the message real soon people are gonna start taking law into their own hands and SHOWING cops who's boss..

These charges won't last 10 seconds if the prosecutor has two brain cells to run together. And the photog has a civil rights violation that I don't see the PD getting away from..

Typical jerk thug cop. And yet we still have cops posting on this site whining and moaning that people don't give them enough respect! Get a CLUE, cops! Legal trouble is the least of your worries: by the time every non-cop in the country sees what assholes you are, you're going to be in a VERY deep hole.

I just knew the cop would play
the "safety" card somewhere along the line.
It's the same BS they fed us to pass the Patriot Act
and a hundred other violations of our rights.

The officers percieved or made up fears does not trump the rights of people. If that was the case, they could use the "I don't know if you have a gun on you" on everyone as a precursor to making it illegal to be anywhere where you can see the police thus allowing them to do anything in secret at any time. It wasn't about safety, if it was about safety, the questions wouldn't have started out asking about why he was recording. It was about recording, not safety. This officer had no authority to abridge the freedoms of the press. He needs to be made an example out of and fired and charged with terrorism.

Any contact information to this police department or info of the officers involved.

Carlos, you should pick this up and run with it:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-15236758

Mike

Police are certainly allowed to set a reasonable perimeter while conducting an investigation, but "around the corner" clearly was meant to keep him out of sight of what was going on. Excellent move by Pniewski to keep offering to move back.