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Charge dismissed against woman who videotaped police encounter (Rochester NY)
CNN.com ^ | 6/27/11 | Jesse Solomon, CNN

Posted on 06/27/2011 2:32:01 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

(CNN) -- Prosecutors dismissed a charge Monday against a community activist who was arrested while filming a police encounter with her iPod camera because she was concerned it was initiated by racial profiling.

"I'm feeling vindicated, I'm feeling energetic" Emily Good, 28, of Rochester, New York, said of the decision to have the charge dropped. Good had been charged with obstruction of governmental administration when she began videotaping the interrogation of a black man by three white officers in front of her house on May 12, she said.

"Based upon the evidence, we could not make out the elements of the crime charged," Monroe County First Assistant District Attorney Sandra Doorley said.

Good said she intends to file a civil suit.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: emilygood; policestate; rochester; tyranny
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Sure, she's a lefty activist. But she is playing by the rules, at least here, and she stood up to expose the truth as she saw it.

One day, when she wises up and becomes a conservative (hopefully), she'll be a great asset to the cause of freedom (hopefully).

Regardless, this is a victory for liberty and a black eye for tyranny.

Hope the cop is fired.

1 posted on 06/27/2011 2:32:05 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
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2 posted on 06/27/2011 2:33:13 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (Dear Lord, Please judge Barack Hussein Obama for betraying Israel, and not the whole nation. Amen.)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

“...we could not make out the elements of the crime charged...”
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This is lawyer speak for...what?


3 posted on 06/27/2011 2:35:59 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Proud to be a (small) monthly donor.)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Had she been within her home and taping through the window, would she had been arrested as well or in refusing to answer the door, have it knocked down by the cop?

We are in scary times.


4 posted on 06/27/2011 2:36:04 PM PDT by pennboricua
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

It is a victory for freedom. If the police are doing nothing wrong then there’s nothing wrong with recording them on video as they do their duty. A cursory glance at You Tube will show that police abuse is all too common anymore.


5 posted on 06/27/2011 2:37:10 PM PDT by MeganC (NO WAR FOR OIL! ........except when a Democrat's in charge.)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

The cop AND the Chief should be fired:

Those nutty leftists had a daytime rally the next day in that neighborhood, right? Well like 5 cop cars came there and ticketed the cars of all those rally people for —get this-— being more than 12 inches from the curb.

It was CLEARLY an effort to intimidate people the police were chosing to see as their enemies.

I had those lefties, too, but...in this case they were RIGHT.


6 posted on 06/27/2011 2:37:56 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

CLOSELY RELATED. Check THIS out!!!

This is YOUR country....!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ77_eP-erk

No lefty victims at all there, they might as well be freepers.


7 posted on 06/27/2011 2:39:57 PM PDT by gaijin
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because she was concerned it was initiated by racial profiling.

???

as if she needs a reason

8 posted on 06/27/2011 2:40:39 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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Why is she being called an activist?? I can't find anything thast suggests that. Can someone help?

P.S. Rochester is a stinkin' Dem welfare city.

9 posted on 06/27/2011 2:40:45 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

“Good” for her! Must be the Officials in Rochester read my post from the othrer day.

Rochester Police Arrest Woman For Videotaping Them From Her Front Yard

Saturday, June 25, 2011 3:04:35 PM · 83 of 206
faucetman to Chunga85

“Mazzeo says, “City police officers write ticket every night after parking enforcement officers leave for the day. And if there’s a parking infraction they come across in their patrol areas, they will write those violations. That’s part of their job.”
This is the kind of crap that leads to RIOTS. Why can’t the police admit that they made a mistake and all those ticket are void and they won’t hassle those folks again. Ya know.... apologize.

Maybe they ticketed those cars legally, but everyone knows it was retribution.

Let the woman out of jail and apologize to her as well as the community for overreacting.

Where is the harm in doing so? Race riots won’t be far behind. This is just the sort of thing that can trigger it. Rochester has a history of riots, I used to live there.


10 posted on 06/27/2011 2:41:10 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts ma'am, just the facts)
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To: Repeal The 17th

That’s the District Attorney, and it is lawyer-speak for “There was no crime committed, the arrest was false, and the jackboot-thug cop is in deep doo-doo.”

At least that’s what I think it means.


11 posted on 06/27/2011 2:42:31 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (Dear Lord, Please judge Barack Hussein Obama for betraying Israel, and not the whole nation. Amen.)
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To: MeganC

If I were a police officer,I’d welcome citizens videotaping me on the job.


12 posted on 06/27/2011 2:42:31 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

She’s a lefty loony... Her boyfriend was on Coast to Coast and after listening for ten minutes I switched it off. Hope the cop keeps his job


13 posted on 06/27/2011 2:42:34 PM PDT by dennisw (NZT - "works better if you're already smart")
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To: Repeal The 17th
“...we could not make out the elements of the crime charged...” - This is lawyer speak for...what?

Da Po-lice is whack!

14 posted on 06/27/2011 2:43:38 PM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: MeganC

Exactly. The cops expect us to ACCEPT the fact that we are under their surveillance, 24-7, and it’s for our “own good.”

And at the airport, they think get to photograph under our clothes.

But let some citizen point a Flip cam at them, and out come the night sticks, pepper spray, or handcuffs.

This is a defeat for tyranny, to be sure.


15 posted on 06/27/2011 2:45:19 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (Dear Lord, Please judge Barack Hussein Obama for betraying Israel, and not the whole nation. Amen.)
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She is a lefty loony, and she has my support.

The idea that some cop thinks law abiding citizens need to "obey my orders" on their own property when they are committing no crime is ridiculous.

He should be fired before somebody gets hurt.

16 posted on 06/27/2011 2:45:33 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Repeal The 17th
This is lawyer speak for...what?

The idiot cop's charges were baseless.

17 posted on 06/27/2011 2:46:37 PM PDT by SwankyC
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To: Sacajaweau

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20110627/NEWS01/110627014 She’s a screwball activist of some sort, here she is wearing her “Food not bombs” T-shirt. She says she might sue over First Amendment rights


18 posted on 06/27/2011 2:48:39 PM PDT by dennisw (NZT - "works better if you're already smart")
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To: gaijin
It was CLEARLY an effort to intimidate people the police were chosing to see as their enemies.

I agree that this was a very clear intimidation effort by uniformed minions of the establishment. We saw a visual picture of the enforcement with a car being ticketed because it was a 0.5" further from the curb while parked at a citizen's meeting to discuss the arrest of Ms Good. All of the police officers should be forced into retraining (at a minimum) for the supremacy of the US Constitution over their superior's orders.

19 posted on 06/27/2011 2:50:46 PM PDT by SES1066 (Michael Moore - a pernicious progluddite of socialism!)
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To: dead

the cop was very polite with this Obama voter....she is a loon who was videotaping trying to expose racial profiling of drivrers....you figure that one out.

Another sniveling little commie agitator like how Obama got his start


20 posted on 06/27/2011 2:52:02 PM PDT by dennisw (NZT - "works better if you're already smart")
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