AMAZING video of a journalist not taking crap from NYPD

[kas125]

Run time: 02:37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEaCx5XyiGo   Posted on YouTube: November 24, 2011 By YouTube Member: 12160info Views on YouTube: 14220   Posted on DU: November 25, 2011 By DU Member: kas125 Views on DU: 11426

 

[bertman]

1. Very courageous action. If he had been doing anything illegal they would have arrested him.

The police were the ones trying to do something illegal--deny citizens their rights.

REC.

[joanbarnes]

16. Thank you for posting. When will the get it? Everyone has a camera

Everyone is a journalist, everyone has a story these days.

[dotymed]

17. If it wasn't on video they would have arrested and probably

beaten the shit out of him. It is nice to see a citizen tell the bullies that they don't intimidate him. I understand the "we're just following orders" meme. To them, they believe that because it is an order from their "superior" that it is legal. We do not educate our citizens, (in school, by the MSM, etc.) that they have rights and the police cannot deny these rights. Also, the police need to be educated about the same things, including Nuremberg.

[MannyGoldstein]

2. Such brave police!

They must be very, very proud.

[Dystopian]

3. Thank you for posting. KandR.

peace~

[kas125]

4. You've welcome! n/t

[chervilant]

5. We bear witness

to the oppression meted out by the paramilitary sock puppets of the Corporate Megalomaniacs.

[DeSwiss]

6. K&R!!! n/t

[Dawson Leery]

7. It's about time. No honor in the uniform of a copper.

[avaistheone1]

8. k&r

:kick:

[Douglas Carpenter]

9. knr

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[Enthusiast]

11. This is what a police state looks like!

Fight for your rights or you will lose them!

[Yon_Yonson]

12. An attaboy for this press reported ... thank you!

The cops are THUGS and LACKEYS for corporate amerika. Their PROTECT AND SERVE motto is just another pack of lies the bosses tell us. Protect and serve ... my ass!

[civilisation]

13. too many cameras in use the cops back down,. .

They yell and threaten arrest, knowing that they have no good reason for it, and most people, out of fear will simply comply. Good for him to stand up to police bullying!!! More people should. You may get arrested for it but at least did not kowtow to bullies.

[NJCher]

14. my favorite line

"It's illegal for me to be on the steps?"


Cher

[OnlinePoker]

18. It is if the steps are private property and the people who own them have called the police.

Trespassing. Staying on the sidewalk right beside them is fine...in fact, it's counter intimidation because the police know with that many cameras, any shit they try will be all over the net in minutes.

I don't envy the police. The majority of them are there to enforce the rules your governments have created and are actually decent people. Most police may not agree with the rules, but it's what they're paid for. And be serious, would you rather the alternative where there are no cops so that when your house is being broken into or you've just been beaten up, you have nobody to look out for you? Take away the cops...what would you do?

[Lautremont]

21. That's not the alternative.

I like your either/or formula though. Either the cops are energetically trying to violate the Constitution or they just completely disappear as though raptured.

[ooglymoogly]

22. As can be seen on any cop show or the horror stories abounding on the internet.

Its a crap shoot; calling the police, particularly in a big city like NYC;...may result in your dog being shot, a search of your house, a family member being shot...anything for the most collars, for the least amount of work. A few good cops...shure...many more bad cops...an almost certain probability. The drug wars have made it a requisite for cops to NOT act in the public's interests. Witness the obscene and scandalous prison populations...a large percentage, for victimless crimes...and even more outrageous, mostly brown and black folks.

[JoeyT]

30. The same thing I'd do now.

The internet is full of people that are totally baffled because when something was stolen or broken into the cops wouldn't even bother taking a statement from them. People that were assaulted often find out calling the cops makes things worse.

Most of the cops probably aren't decent people. The difference is now they're doing to white people what was being done to everyone else all along, so it's getting noticed. Maybe now something will be done about them.

Edited to add: And I include myself in that first sentence. I had several thousand in parts stolen from my business, knew who had them and had video of them taking them, and couldn't get the police to even take a statement about it. Hell we had a cop that got video taped stealing tires from a local business and all they did was confiscate the tape.

[sabrina 1]

31. Just following orders, right??

For far too long people have had the attitude you are proposing here and as a result, we have lost so many basic rights and now live in a country where the police no longer work for the people.

That reporter was doing nothing illegal. Cops don't get to pass laws when it suits them, sorry. I know, especially the NYPD, the corrupt Oalkand police and some others, got so used to doing it without resistance, they probably actually believe they have the right to do so.

Police will have a far easier time when they start gaining the respect of those who pay their salaries.

They have become hated in many communities around this country, and are now earning the disrespect of many who were unaware of their brutal, illegal tactics, not to mention the rest of the world.

That Reporter was absolutely correct and I hope more will do as he did, now that the media has discovered that they too are veiwed as the 'enemy' by our so-called Civilian police departments.

If he had been doing anything illegal, they would not have hesitated to arrest them. If there are good cops, and I'm sure there are, they are going to have to refuse to follow illegal orders or they too become complicit.

Reform is long past due. This has become more than obvious over the past two months.

[2banon]

45. The police have never worked for the People, they've always been the apparatus to serve the Ruling

Class. That's where their orders come from and their blind loyalties lie, bought and paid for (in large part) by the working class.

[ZombieHorde]

34. I would take away the cops over the current situation, but there are other solutions.

One solution would be to replace police with highly educated sociologists/psychiatrists, who would have body guards. Of course, the overall mission would be different than the current one.

[TheEuclideanOne]

37. Seriously, you think that is the ONLY ALTERNATIVE?

There are just two possible options, no police at all or police intimidating civilians and violating the constitution. The only options?!?!?!? Think maybe just a tiny bit harder...perhaps another option will come to mind.

[ooglymoogly]

46. +1 nt

[rhett o rick]

38. Looks like you and I are on different sides. I support the 99%. nm

[jimlup]

15. It is hard to keep your cool in that kind of situation but we have to learn to do that! /nt

[defendandprotect]

19. "What does a police state look like?" --- Like THIS!!

[tblue37]

20. Wow--They didn't just yell at him; they really shoved him around.

I wonder whether he can sue the city for being manhandled while excercising his constitutional right to act as part of a free press. He certainly has plenty of evidence.

[The Traveler]

23. American courage

It is not a thing of the past. This dude proved it. OWS has been proving it. Our students at UC Davis and Berkeley have been proving it. Occupiers from Oakland to Atlanta have been proving it. The citizens of Wisconsin and Ohio have been proving it.

"Show me what a police state looks like!"

It feels like the country is waking up and becoming alive again. For the first time in a long, long time I am feeling really hopeful, and somewhat amazed.

Trav

[timefortherevolution]

25. I think Egyptians had to inspire americans to stand up.

I mean, look at the rolling over that the public has done for repubs in the past
25 years!

[timefortherevolution]

24. Now THAT takes guts. However, others did the same early on

and were arrested in the blink of an eye.

[hue]

26. Excellent!! n/t

[SixthSense]

27. They need to sue those cops personally

42 USC 1983 - conspiracy to violate civil rights under color of legal authority

it's a tort that the individual cops are not protected from by their jobs or employers - they each have individual liability for each's own actions

[The Wizard]

41. +1 (NT)

[Dont call me Shirley]

28. Love your bravery, Thank You

[Fantastic Anarchist]

29. "Show me what a police state looks like!"

"This is what a police state looks like!"

[Stuart G]

32. k & r thanks for posting...nt

[ZombieHorde]

33. Awesome. He is a very brave man. nt

[SheilaT]

35. My first question is,

who actually took the video we saw? Why wasn't that person being asked to back up and get off the steps or whatever, also? Or was that person included in the request.

[rhett o rick]

39. That's a great question. nm

[zentrum]

36. Thrilling. Encouraging.

Needs to be shown at every teach-in across the country and in every school of journalism.

Please someone--send it to KO on Current TV. ( I'm too tech-challenged.)

[kristopher]

40. K&R

[The Wizard]

42. Goonberg's Gestapo

is Reagan's legacy and Giuliani's wet dream.

[Rozlee]

43. The corporate owed media...

seems to have a few good cogs in the corrupt machine. I wonder how it'll wind up playing out as this all keeps unfolding? In the last couple of decades, journalism has given up it's mantle of the 4th estate as it's been co-opted by large mega-media corporations, who are part of the 1%. I wonder if that reporter will be reprimanded for what he did instead of lauded by his big media bosses. He's got some steel cajones, that's for sure.

[Butch350]

44. So what with the cameras...

so what if it's posted on the net what cops do. Who's gonna do anything about it? Huh?
Who's gotten in trouble so far because they've been caught on camera beating the shit out of some perp.

You think cameras scare the police? Pleeze. Some people have cameras - ALL law enforcement has weapons.

So load up your cameras and go out and film away. Good shootin-.

[Gregorian]

47. America's true colors.

Now it's free for all to see. There it is, folks. More counterproductive tax dollars at work. You pay for your own restraint.