Links to YouTube video at the site. Seems like very clear police abuse of this man's constitutional rights. First amendment, they forced the wife to delete video of the officers actions. The Seventh Circuit has ruled that recording police in the performance of their public duties is a first amendment right.
Second amendment, self explanatory.
I suspect that a big settlement is coming from this arrest. The officer who intimidated the wife into deleting the file should be fired.
1 posted on
09/26/2013 4:34:45 PM PDT by
marktwain
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To: marktwain
Fired? He should be jailed.
2 posted on
09/26/2013 4:36:59 PM PDT by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: marktwain
I am really starting to dislike LEOs of all stripes. When not shooting pets they seem to be harassing citizens who are within their rights! I remember watching them pull people out of their homes when searching for those Boston Bombers.
3 posted on
09/26/2013 4:38:22 PM PDT by
seeker41
(take your country back by whatever means necessary)
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4 posted on
09/26/2013 4:39:26 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: marktwain
When the cop said “doing this for our own protection”...she should have said the same...with regards to the camera.
5 posted on
09/26/2013 4:44:02 PM PDT by
RckyRaCoCo
(Shall Not Be Infringed)
To: marktwain
Welcome to the new USSA. Before I left, I noticed that police, everywhere, were morphing into jack-booted thugs, even in small rural areas. I now see the same thing on US TV programs that I get via Satellite.
I guess they are gearing up to control the descent.
6 posted on
09/26/2013 4:47:26 PM PDT by
AlexW
To: marktwain
In ancient Rome it was illegal to put shackles on a citizen for any reason.
7 posted on
09/26/2013 4:49:50 PM PDT by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
To: marktwain
The question on everyone's mind: how is the family dog?
8 posted on
09/26/2013 4:50:35 PM PDT by
Jeff Chandler
(Let your 'Yes' mean 'Yes,' and your 'No' mean 'No.' Matthew 5:37)
To: marktwain
The official-looking costume that guy in the picture is wearing apparently confers all sorts of authority and privilege: to bully citizens, slap them around, order people to turn off cameras, tie-wrap their wrists, confiscate their property, and generally violate their God-given rights.
Wow - I wanna be one of those guys!
9 posted on
09/26/2013 4:51:18 PM PDT by
bkopto
(Obama and Biden are merely symptoms of a more profound, systemic disease in American body politic.)
To: marktwain
Heck all my neighbors got loaded guns on their properties n the local cops did the same thing before they were cops so wht the hell is wrong with those city slicker cops in MI?
10 posted on
09/26/2013 4:56:04 PM PDT by
bunkerhill7
(("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.))
To: marktwain
“But soon the cops were saying that Thomas Donald was pointing his shotgun at the trespasser and he was charged with felonious assault, even though the couple says he never pointed his gun at the trespasser...”
I wish the wife had started the recording sooner, to have irrefutable proof of that. As it is, it will probably be the police’s word against theirs come court time (assuming the police don’t have video of their own here).
Whoever is telling the truth about how it went down, “I’m taking that for evidence” is just bull. I can’t see any where a cop had any legal right to confiscate the wife’s cell phone. Seems like unlawful seizure of property, in fact - i.e. theft. Not that I’m naive enough to think anything will come of it.
11 posted on
09/26/2013 4:56:20 PM PDT by
DemforBush
(Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia!)
To: marktwain
Cops are conditioning the 3% to treat them as the enemy.
12 posted on
09/26/2013 4:58:04 PM PDT by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: marktwain
13 posted on
09/26/2013 4:59:04 PM PDT by
2ndDivisionVet
(You can't invade the mainland US There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: marktwain
Cops ever do that to me, and I will become a permanent fixture in the line for Freedom of Information Act requests. Every hired, appointed, or elected official in the hierarchy above the cops would see their public careers go down the tube, and their private ones as well. And it would not end until I died.
To: marktwain
With the massive uptick in membership at the NRA, NRA attorneys should be on their way to this homeowners house to provide him defense in court.
16 posted on
09/26/2013 5:13:51 PM PDT by
Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
(If Americans were as concerned for their country as Egyptians are, Obama would be ousted!)
To: marktwain
Seems like not a day goes by but what there’s another story like this.
20 posted on
09/26/2013 5:37:59 PM PDT by
Past Your Eyes
(You can't force people to care. Sometimes I don't myself.)
To: marktwain
Bookmarked for future follow-up to see just what happens to this wanna-be sheriff’s deputy.
21 posted on
09/26/2013 5:39:50 PM PDT by
PhiloBedo
(You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
To: marktwain
I’m tired of taxpayer financed settlements. I was assholes like this bankrupted and then prosecuted criminally. I want their families in the streets dead broke and starving.
I want these thugs with badges spending 15 years pinned to some lifer with AIDS.
25 posted on
09/26/2013 6:09:23 PM PDT by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: marktwain
I suspect that a big settlement is coming from this arrest. Never happen
27 posted on
09/26/2013 6:32:55 PM PDT by
from occupied ga
(Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
28 posted on
09/26/2013 6:54:16 PM PDT by
RandallFlagg
(IRS = Internal Revenge Service)
To: marktwain
Never call a cop. Take care of the matter. Call the coroner, if you have to.
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