[forkinsocket]

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[ontap]

So in the end what kind of evidence does he have?

[live+let_live]

We all know the police wouldn’t harass someone videotaping an arrest.

This guy must be lying.

[tx_eggman]

Huitzilopochtli, who says he often protests for the rights of indigenous people

in·dig·e·nous - adjective
originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native

That would seem to disqualify people who snuck in across a border, wouldn't it?

[KarlInOhio]

ACLU of Southern California staff attorney Peter Bibring, who specializes in police actions, says erasing the video was clearly against the law. "There's no circumstance under which erasing the video would be legal," he says.

The blind squirrels at the ACLU actually found a nut this time. I agree with them for once.

Garden Grove Police Department spokesman Lieutenant Todd Elgin doesn't deny Huitzilopochtli's version of events, but he does say that the officer didn't know how to work the camera and erased the video by mistake.

I doubt that. It is very difficult to erase something without getting the "Are you sure you want to erase this?" question. If a suspect did that the cops would nail him for interfering with an investigation and destruction of evidence.

[VeniVidiVici]

Huitzilopochtli, who says he often protests for the rights of indigenous people, first got the idea to start filming such events after he was caught on film, he says

LOL! One of the "indigenous people" the Mexican elite despise so much. Rather than fix things in Mexico he protests here. I'm sure the irony is lost on such a pinhead.

[John Jorsett]

Garden Grove Police Department spokesman Lieutenant Todd Elgin doesn't deny Huitzilopochtli's version of events, but he does say that the officer didn't know how to work the camera and erased the video by mistake.

What was the officer doing 'working' the camera to begin with? It clearly wasn't a weapon, so he had no business monkeying with it, particularly if, as they admit, he had no idea what he was doing. Accidental erasure or not, the cop was in the wrong.