Posted on 06/25/2011 8:54:25 AM PDT by Chunga85
June 21, 2011 by Carlos Miller - Pixiq
A woman was arrested for videotaping police from her front yard in Rochester, New York.
Emily Good, 28, was recording a traffic stop where police had a man handcuffed on May 12th. The video was uploaded to Blip TV today.
The cop who arrested her has been identified as Mario Masic, according to the Rochester Indy Media.
A man named Mario Masic who happens to be a police officer in western New York also runs a business called Harvest Moon Malamutes
You can friend him on Facebook here. Or you can email him through his business email address at harvestmoonmalamutes@live.com
The video, which has since gone viral, shows Masic hassling Good with absurd notions after he notices her recording.
“You seem very anti-police … due to what you said to me before you started taping me.”
It is not clear what Good said before she started recording, but if she said anything threatening, they would have arrested her at that moment.
She ended up getting handcuffed and taken away after she refused to walk into her house, even though she was clearly on her own property.
A friend or relative ended up taking the camera and we see her being led away.
Neighbors who witnessed the interaction confirmed she had done nothing wrong.
Meanwhile, the man they had originally handcuffed was released.
Mickey H. Osterreicher, attorney for the National Press Photographers Association, fired off a letter to Rochester Police Chief James Sheppard demanding that Good's charges be dropped.
Sheppard told Osterreicher and the Democrat and Chroniclenewspaper that he has ordered an investigation, which normally is police talk for sweeping it under the carpet until the media attention dies down.
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“Still what she did wasn’t a very smart thing to do.”
Nor was it a dumb thing to do. Smart vs. dumb is not relevant here. Legal vs. illegal most certainly is.
She was recording from her yard, events in a public place.
This abuse is no different from the many incidents where TSA employees have tried to prevent recordings in airports.
He used his power, which is “derived from the consent of the governed” wrongly, for some reason.
It is disturbing to find support for these actions - wrong is wrong. Everyone would be better off if the policeman and his Department had immediately backed off, apologized, and explained why and how such incidents will be avoided in the future.
Unfortunately, as time passed, the policeman and the Department proved the woman’s actions justified. (Makes me wonder about the original traffic stop, too.)
This is a link to the story of the police ticketing people who couldn't park their cars legally, when the community activists got together to discuss how to support Emily Good. There is a video at the link, showing the cars clearly violating the 12-inch rule.
I would presume that the police don't run around enforcing this rule; on the other hand, if you are going to a meeting to figure out how to get back at the police for something they did, you should probably obey the laws.
Unlike some traffic rules, the 12-inch rule is a clear, objective standard; it's not like they got ticketed for "following too close". This is like running a red light, or a stop sign "I almost completely stopped", or "the light was still yellow when I entered the intersection".
BTW, the activist campaign is working. Just google her name, and you’ll see pages of posts, mostly left-wingers, all starting June 22, about gestapo police and racial profiling and economic inequities.
(Laz, the Jews agitated those poor Nazi’s by being rich, educated and existing, don’t you know?) (/ sarcasm)
cripplecreek, you’re going overboard when you defend Nazi’s.
“Her profession is “community activist” and she was arrested in March for blocking a foreclosure.”
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i think i would dislike that lady. and, my Dad served in the P.D.
...but here, i defend the lady.
she was on her OWN property. and videotaping isn’t “threatening” !
if the Cop arrested Hillary Clinton like this,
i’d STILL say it’s wrong.
what does anything this woman did before have to do with a cop going into HER yard,
and arresting her ?
and i’m curious. i “find it interesting” that Moonman62 “just happens” to know a LOT about this woman.
yet as ClearCase pointed out, Moonman didn’t know basic facts, like saying it was news to him that someone else was in the yard.
...yet Moonman comes up with this past info so quickly? bizarre.
(although if the P.D. there is so low as to ticket vehicles like that, no doubt they’ve run a complete check on her, and are busy trying to make her look bad...)
...if he was simply being fair-minded, and doing honest checking, he should be able to tell us about all the previous disciplinary incidents involving that Officer...???
but i don’t care about that either. this is clearly WRONG.
and it is not an isolated incident. there have been many videotaping cases like this in the past year.
A good Cop, would welcome a videotape, because it would SUPPORT him.
But when that West Point officer was murdered in Costco, ALL FOUR cameras “malfunctioned”.
If you think you live in an area with no police corruption, then either you are the only cop in town, or your wife is.
And it is the blind following of authoritarian orders that had thousands loaded into cattle cars and shipped eastward.
Cops need to lighten up.
Tell me how this cop was either serving or protecting. He was self serving and trying to protect himself and his cohorts from potentially doing something wrong on the video tape.
Funny how they go from dog loving fellows to treating everyone not in blue in their “you are a civilian” bulls*t tone.
I have little use for the police.
Here is some retro for you; civilrights movement. You seem to be stuck in 1930's Europe.
Yes, because you know that you can’t be shot, or have a knife driven into your back, or be hit over the head with an Iphone, if there are other police officers around.
Who said anything bad about firemen and EMTs? Those guys earn every penny they are paid.
Cops, not so much.
I'd go a step further and say whatever I wanted to the police. Where is it written that I have to be nice or quiet to the police? If I thought they were scumbag Gestapo corpseman, I could say so to their faces. It would be my right. They have no “right” to my respect. I do give it to police whenever I encounter them. In this case I would have told this guy in no uncertain terms what I thought of him. He wouldn't bully me around. Law suit? HELL YES.
Cops have a tough job. In this case they are making it tough on themselves. This was totally uncalled for. They should have ignored her. Also, the traffic stop appeared to be driving while Black.
Unfortunately too many cops are on a power trip.
Who said anything bad about firemen and EMTs? Those guys earn every penny they are paid.
Cops, not so much.
And who wants them shot? I just want them to leave me alone, and focus on protecting us—not generating revenues.
More of that liberal bull. Cannot intellectually make your case, call someone stupid. Perhaps she was doing it for their safety?
That is a non-sequitur. Filming without interfering is not distracting - as proven by the proliferation of police car dash cams.
You really only have her side of the story, a story that her and her fellow activists are circulating and hitting heavily, in order to advance some cause of theirs, maybe their racial-profiling story.
The video itself is not particularly disturbing; she isn’t attacked, or hit, we don’t see the police beating up any suspects.
The video is a clear propaganda piece; we don’t know if it was edited in any way, except that we know they added titles, and the title is false; the title is meant to shape your opinion before you start watching — it is a common technique, and WILL make you interpret what you see in the video in a different way than you might otherwise.
It’s like the contrail video from a few months ago. Preceded by an extensive discussion of how the contrails were actually a rocket launch, a lot of good people really believed it was, in spite of all the evidence to the contrary.
In the video, when he mentions what she said before she started taping, she doesn’t respond “ never said anything”, she says “what did I say to you THAT OFFENDED YOU?”
Remember, the story now is that she said NOTHING before the taping started. But in the video, her story is different.
Then she keeps insisting that “I’m allowed to stand in my yard”. I’m betting there are laws on the books in that county that say differently, if the police feel threatened by her presense, which he said he did.
We could argue about whether she is threatening, but given that it is dark, and they think they are dealing with drug dealers/gang members, I wouldn’t presume that gawkers standing a few feet from them, (and clearly behind the one police officer on the right in the video), aren’t threatening.
And then she keeps talking back. And then she claims “I’m not going into my house, I feel I need fresh air right now”.
At NO time did he say “stop taping”. So the meme that she was arrested for taping seems unsupported by facts.
Then she plays dumb “I don’t understand your order”. She already acknowledged the order several times, and clearly insisted she would NOT obey the order. “I will NOT go into my house”.
Then she says “you didn’t ask me to not stand behind you”. She was standing behind the officer on the right, and he told her to move because they didn’t like her standing behind them, and she refused to move, insisted she had a right to stand in her yard, and wouldn’t do more than take one step back.
Then he told her twice that she would go to jail if she didn’t comply, and said he was trying to give her a warning.
THen she just stands there, ignoring him, for about 5 more seconds. Her friend says “let’s just back up”, and she says “I’m going to back up” — which is another clear challenge to his order.
Then he says he is going to arrest her — and she runs away from him onto the porch, while he tells her not to move.
Then, she launches into her “poor, helpless female act”, complete with crying, and “I don’t understand” — we know from her history that she knows exactly what she is doing, and has been arrested before for resisting officers, and so her whole pathetic feminine crying thing is an act for her neighbors, who might not know her history.
She is playing a game, and she does it well. I showed the video to my daughter, but skipped the title, and just asked her to listen, and halfway through she was calling the woman a liar and shouting at the screen “Yes, he told you 6 times already, and you ARE wearing clothes, so don’t say you aren’t wearing anything”.
I understand that a lot of people in this thread want to argue that she had a right to stand in her yard even if she made the police uncomfortable, that further they think (from their comfortable seats watching the video) that the police couldn’t possibly have felt threatened, and that further citizens have some absolute right to refuse to obey any order a police officer gives them if they don’t think the officer has a right to make those orders.
But in fact, it is quite likely that, when the order isn’t to commit a crime, and won’t really harm you, and the police are in close proximity executing an arrest/search, that the police HAVE the right to order you away, even if it happens to be on your yard.
I’m happy to fight over whether the police had a right to give the order, but she was stupid, and they probably had a right to arrest her for not FOLLOWING the order.
In the scope of this entire incident, placing emphasis on something so relatively trivial displays to me your genuine insincerity.
It seems as though this thread is withering but I take solice in the fact that your opinion[s], which you've shown considerable effort to articulate, are shared by but a few.
If I thought that there was bad faith exhibited by an officer and I had my BB with me at my own home such as this lady, I would have done this inconspicuously from a window and then used it, if necessary. Video cameras are so little these days. Folks just need to stop being so dumb and stop drawing attention to themselves in this day and age of out of control LEO’s There’s more than one way to skin a cat ya know.
I try to blend in-I don’t want to be noticed by anyone in the PD. I tell my kids that too - don’t drive a red car - don’t speed - look boring - “son, pretend you’re a spy or something and you’ll live a long life” that’s my 2 cents
It has a lot more to do with society than some are willing to admit. Where I live we have virtually no crime and don’t even have a local police department. A county cop rolls through town maybe once a week. We don’t go out of our way looking for trouble and we don’t find it.
A few years back I took some photos of a cop writing a ticket at the end of my street. He asked what I was doing and I told him. (I was taking photos for a “On Duty” themed photo contest) He asked me to avoid taking pictures of the civilian without permission which I wouldn’t have done anyway.
Well, it worked for Obama, so why wouldn't it work for Freepers?
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