Posted on 04/13/2013 7:46:54 AM PDT by redreno
Cop Claims Cell Phone Is A Weapon, Assaults Man For Recording
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Officer, we do have real weapons — would you like us to bring them out?
You LEOs out there had better recognize you are on the losing side of a freedom argument. I don’t care how tough your jobs are or if you face danger. Many of you are cowards and bullies, and this video confirms that.
Nobody did anything wrong, he wrote his ticket, everything was cool until the cop went nuts for no reason.
If the cell phone was destroyed how did they save the video?
help identify the police officers? please... he knows who they are...
And cops wonder why the public no longer trusts them.
Probably to the chip in the phone. Pull card out, put it in another. Names, numbers and pictures go with the card.
Something funny there.
If he was arrested, then it was the arresting officers.
To me. It’s the young ones (or relatively). Too many seem to have some bloated sense of power and control about them. When their authority is questioned, the often lie and misstate the facts. My experience is that older more normal LEOs don’t act this way. But we are fast becoming a country full of young Rambo wannabes hungry for power and control. We don’t need SWAT teams in every locale in this country. They have become uncontrollable.
There was a time when most of us would’ve said the kid was asking for it and not worried about it. That was about 10,000 police brutality tapes ago ...
The thought the cell phone would capture his evil black soul.
He's right. It would take about thirty to forty minutes to turn a cell phone into a cutting and stabbing weapon.
Poor cop, probably could use a vacation.
5.56mm
:....young Rambo wannabes....”
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They may be wannabes, but I consider these two to be “pussies” who happen to have a gun and arrest powers.
But if you want to use the net to help obtain information from the broader public, I recommend that you add information such as the city/town/location where it occurred. Doing that would make it more likely for folks who can give you information (e.g., the identity of the cops) to actually come across the item being posted.
I thought the same sort of thing. Let me be clear: the filmer is 100% within his rights, and the cops 100% over-reacted. Now, having said that, I think the filmer was shouting over the cop and not making any attempt at a calm, reasoned discussion about the situation. Clearly, the cop didn’t like that approach. I think the filmer could have handled it differently. But I say again, that he was within his rights and it’s not his “fault” that the cop over-reacted.
There are several apps that automatically back up photos and videos to the cloud. Most Andorid phones now have Google Plus which will automatically put anything you shoot on the Google Plus cloud as soon as you take the picture. Taking the phone doesn't do a thing any more. (at that, depending on your circles and the privacy settings you have for auto-uploads, a hundred people could have seen the video before the cop smashed it).
“....I do not condone what the cop did, which seemed like over reaction. There appears culpability on the part of the filmer as well.”
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Ah, a twist on the classic “she enticed me with her revealing clothing” defense that rapists use.
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