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Man Ordered At Gunpoint To Hand Over Phone For Recording Cops

Posted by Soulskill on from the don't-shoot-or-we'll-shoot dept.

HungryHobo writes with this excerpt from a story at Pixiq: "Miami Beach police did their best to destroy a citizen video that shows them shooting a man to death in a hail of bullets on Memorial Day. First, police pointed their guns at the man who shot the video, according to a Miami Herald interview with the videographer. Then they ordered the man and his girlfriend out of the car and threw them down to the ground, yelling, 'you want to be f****** paparazzi?' Then they snatched the cell phone from his hand and slammed it to the ground before stomping on it. Then they placed the smashed phone in the videographer's back pocket as he was laying down on the ground."

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  1. Re:Any laywers here? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're forgetting the police have helicopters.

  2. Re:See with that Apple patent by MagusSlurpy · · Score: 3, Funny

    the cops could have avoided all that trouble

    Yes, by not shooting people or threatening witnesses at gunpoint.

    But then why would anyone bother to become a cop?

    There're still plenty of drug dealers to shake down and prostitutes to extort free sex from.

    Or vice versa.

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  3. Re:See with that Apple patent by schnell · · Score: 5, Funny

    whenever the government is given control of more wealth and power to legislate & regulate...that's the same as saying they want more of this crap like this videographer received

    EXACTLY! The action of these cops is DIRECTLY related to the growth of government! We should return to a time of smaller government - say, the 1950s or even the early 1900s - when police in the US deep South never abused anybody. I think we can all recall how much better the cops - and government in the South in general - behaved before that darned Federal government started getting so big. In fact, instead of shooting a guy and destroying evidence, they probably would have sat down and had a nice discussion together over grits and chicory, if it weren't for the insidious creation of the Department of Health and Human Services which turned them into jerks.

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  4. Re:Ahhh crime. by IonOtter · · Score: 3, Funny

    2. When I do break the law, I generally don't get caught.

    I'd say "We can fix that for you," but I pretty much think you did it yourself, dude. You get +1 Darwin Award.

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