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Prosecution of UK News Photographer Collapses After Recording Disproves Police Testimony (wordpress.com)
Slashdot reader Andy Smith writes: Slashdot reported last September how I was arrested while standing in a field near a road accident, as I photographed the scene for a newspaper. I was initially given a police warning for "obstruction", but the warning was then cancelled and I was prosecuted for resisting arrest and breach of the peace. These are serious charges and I was facing a prison sentence. Fortunately we had one very strong piece of evidence: A recording of my arrest. Not only did the recording prove that two police officers' testimony was false, but it caught one of them boasting about how he had conspired with a prosecutor to arrest and prosecute me. Yesterday the case was dropped, and now the two police officers and the prosecutor face a criminal investigation.
That is NOT how the world works, nor how it has ever worked.
Those with authority are held to more lax standards than those without. You can rage about how unfair this is all you want, but that is just the way it is.
It is natural for people with power to see other people with power as contemporaries, and treat them with greater deference. They DO NOT CARE how much their subordinates hate that, because subordinates DON'T MATTER.
This hierarchy of dominance is how the human race has thrived since its inception. It works pretty well in the animal kingdom, too. Who the hell are YOU to say it's broken?
You kidding? He's a journalist. If this was the US and the police so much as gave him a mean look CNN would spend the next month in crazed outrage.
You are a fucking spineless lap dog lackey