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

Re:Crooks chasing crooks...

[gbjbaanb]

I guess it used to be ok when they only did this kind of thing to black people....

But now they've started doing it to people like you, its a whole different matter isn't it.

I think everyone needs to take this as a reminder about supporting the fundamental liberties (not necessarily all the bleeding-heart ones) of everyone, including those groups that you don't belong to.

Re:I miss friendly NZ

[publiclurker]

Because they are too busy crapping their pants when reality occurs around them and they realize that their manhood enhancement attempts do nothing to help anyone.

Re:UNacceptable

[Doc Ruby]

Bearing arms almost never defends any rights. It's almost always used to violate people's rights, except when shooting animals or targets and no rights other than the self-referential are at issue.

You gun fetishists watched Bush/Cheney shit on our Constitution for 8 solid years, and never used your guns to defend it. You proved that's just a load of macho BS. You showed that the delusion that guns defend our rights should be retired except as a fairy tale for demented children.

Re:See with that Apple patent

[BlueStrat]

He's not a Republican, just your run-of-the-mill retard.
Yes I know there can be some overlap, but I don't know many (any?) Republicans who actually believe the grandparent's nonsense.

And, just like in those times, there were people who thought that the problem was not enough government power/control/wealth rather than too much, and who ridiculed, ostracized, and virulently opposed those who realized that government was the problem, not the solution. Those kinds of people came to be known as "useful idiots" thanks to Kruschev and the 20th century struggle against Marxism.

Thanks for proving my point. Although, in your case, there's very little "useful" to your idiocy.

Strat