Man Ordered At Gunpoint To Hand Over Phone For Recording Cops

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."

Comments

See with that Apple patent

[Scareduck]

the cops could have avoided all that trouble, and then it would just be a he-said/she-said scenario. Neat. Clean.

Re:Phone's gone, followed by cops' innocence.

[hduff]

Another point - how about apps that instantly stream to an offsite location? The cops would still be thwarted, and still have to pay.

That's how the Camden police thugs got caught.

Lawlessness

[hackus]

Since I was born in this country I have never seen so much lawlessness by financial institutions, politicians and law enforcement.

If this continues the USA will break up. If the USA becomes politically unstable we could see civil war.

There are already indications of this as state legislatures ignore their constituents and yield to the criminals in Washington.

We have states desperate to save the currency Washington is destroying, by declaring new issues of monetary and economic rules in their own states.

Meanwhile you have Federal powers trying to make it illegal to put anything other than Federal Reserve notes and arresting anyone who dares try.

A confrontation is coming between those who have looted and stole everything in this country and those who have been stolen from.

Be sure you pick the correct side when the crap hits the fan, because it is going to get very very ugly.

-Hack

Re:Any laywers here?

[Arker]

It's not legal.

The problem is that we have a fascist minority in the populace, and a fascist majority in government, who believe that government employees, police in particular, are above the law. For a shockingly high percentage of the population, the whole concept of law and order is absent or incomprehensible, and instant subservience and obedience to the uniform is substituted instead.

This belief is, unsurprisingly, strongest amongst the police themselves. So they break the law, what are you going to do? Call the police?

You cant even get a prosecutor to file charges against them with clear proof of the crime. I remember one prosecutor that did try to discharge her duties faithfully by prosecuting a cop, and found herself unable to function in her position at all because the entire damn police force made a point to louse up her cases and refuse to work with her. Every time someone says 'it's just a few bad apples' I have to think back to her. It seems closer to the truth, today, to say as Adam Kokesh recently did "it's a few bad apples that give the other 5% of cops a bad name."

Now to be fair, police pay is relatively low, and the ability to kill and/or abuse their fellow citizens with impunity is the only clearly exceptional perk they get. Given that, it shouldnt be a surprise that the bad-apples come to outnumber the good ones over time.

I've known some very good people who were cops - note the past tense. They had a very rough time of it. I also knew a guy that told everyone he was going to join the police so he could kill someone and get away with it when he was in high school. Last I saw him he was wearing a blue uniform and a big smile.

Getting rid of bad cops is probably going to continue to be an intractable problem until and unless we as a nation realise that police should, yes, be held to very high standards - but they should also be paid commensurately for their services. No, poor pay in no way justifies lawlessness in the uniform - but if the police were actually held to the law, most of them would be in prison in short order and the people that we really want to take their place will be somewhere else, making more money and dealing with less stress.

Re:Bad cop, no donut

[s0litaire]

Already here!
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