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
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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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How many other times do you think six cops descended on a single street with plastic rulers to ticket sloppy parkers?
This is mob crap, pulled on a bunch of citizens who had the audacity to object to the cops handcuffing a woman committing no crime on her own property. Why not just put horseheads in their beds?
He’s been trained to give that response.
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seems obvious.
but what is going on? this is far from the only incident like this in the past year.
this is insane...
“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.
This is cops being STUPID.
If I was in the police officers position I wouldn’t have arrested her for what she did. He’s going to have problems with that arrest. Probably a false arrest lawsuit and maybe a civil rights violation lawsuit and criminal charges committed under the color of law. Still what she did wasn’t a very smart thing to do.
What does THAT have to do with THIS?
Sadly, that is how most Americans think. Randy Weaver was a nut. So were the Branch Davidians. Rodney King really was bad news. And Elian's family were uppity Cubans in a city that hated them. So, America cheered those atrocities.
I'm not predicting a Holocaust here anytime soon. But, if we had one, it would be enormously popular.
Do you have a diagram of where everybody was standing (their proximity to the police), and a transcript of what everybody said, or was it only Emily Good doing the talking? Is the charge against her for videotaping?
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that simply is silly.
the lady was on her OWN property. that was admitted.
not pointing a gun. VIDEOTAPING.
the office approached her. i don’t care what was said.
he was wrong for doing ANYTHING to her on her own property.
...after seeing all the people here, dispute this, and try to give the cop the benefit of the doubt for feeling “threatened” by a lady on her OWN land...
then, our nation is further gone than i thought.
What is really needed in this regard is a ruling from SCOTUS that prohibitions on filming or audiotaping of public officials in public places is a violation of the First Amendment’s protection of freedom of the press (since “press” has been extended to radio, television and internet reporting of news).
Unfortunately, with the bone-headed pro-state rulings about police matters of late, I’m not sure one could cobble together five votes fro such a ruling.
She was arrested for not following the cop's order to stop videotaping.
Only Fascist cops and their enablers, like you, can see a difference.
Fat chance. They won't allow THEMSELVES to be taped.
I'd like to see the original news articles on the incident, to know whether the activists are giving us the whole story.
Activist Emily Good "stunned" by reaction to video
Good said she grabbed the video camera in an attempt to illustrate examples of what she considers racial profiling in the 19th Ward, where she lives. "I see it all of the time," she said.Police certainly don't like people creeping up behind them with equipment in their hands. But she insists she wasn't behind him (watch the video and see for yourself:Masic is heard saying Good's presence behind him at the scene didn't make him feel safe.
"I don't believe that I was behind Officer Masic. ... As close as I got was about a half a step onto the sidewalk, and that's where I started filming," said Good.Her statement about being on the sidewalk doesn't show she wasn't behind him. An officer wouldn't want you "behind" him, it doesn't mean "a half a step behind".
Also, note that she admits she was on the sidewalk. The sidewalk is NOT part of her yard, precisely (it could be something owned by her, but sidewalks are considered public easements even when they are on people's private property).
Masic also alluded to comments that he said Good made to him before she started videotaping.Since we don't have recordings from before she started, it seems we just have her word for it, against his. And we have her statement that she thought the police were engaged in an illegal act of racial profiling, and we know she is an activist who has been arrested for speaking out, so it seems like a reasonable belief that she DID say something.Good said she never spoke to any officer at the scene before recording.
Police union President Michael Mazzeo said Friday that he thinks Good is biased against police, and she made police at the scene believe that she knew at least one of the men involved in the stop.OK, again we have two sides to the story, no evidence to indicate which is telling the truth; EXCEPT that she says she has "no bias against police", in the same interview where she said the police were guilty of racial profiling "all of the time,",Good said she has no bias against police and did not know any suspect involved and never said anything to give police that belief.
So it seems her statements are less than entirely truthful, unless you can believe the police are guilty of being racist but not have anything against them.
I would note that I have only analyzed HER words here.
She was being interviewed live on CNN, which should show again what side of the fence she lives on. I tried to find good news articles about this, and kept hitting links to far-left, anti-conservative web sites.
And most of these articles are NOT from May, when it happened, they are all just coming out now, as part again of what looks like a politically-motivated publicity campaign.
She was actually with another activist, who apparently is less presentable than she is: Police Illegally Trespass and Arrest Woman in Her Front Lawn for Recording Traffic Stop::
... one of the officers interrogated the [black] man and accused him of possessing drugs. Not satisfied with the man's answers, the police took the man out of his car, handcuffed and put him in the back of a police car. After the man was detained, the police officers searched his car and found no drugs. The officers then released the man and said he was free to go. As the man drove away about 9:55pm he didn't appear to receive a ticket.Kind of a different story. Especially interesting was how the supposed "eye-witness" ascribes the last paragraph to "the arrested woman"; somehow she observed 4 officers having an hour-long conference after her arrest deciding how to lie about the case.
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officer responded that she did not have the right to observe from the sidewalk. My friend immediately moved back into her grass before the sidewalk.
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As the officer trespassed on to the property in a threatening manner, we began to walk toward the house.
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As we approached the porch, the officer said, “I'm just going to arrest you” and came onto the property to arrest the woman. She was put into a police car and taken away at about 9:55pm.According to the arrested woman, after the arrest the four police met in the parking lot of Wilson High School around the corner and had a conference for about an hour about how to deal with the case. A Sargent came over and gave them advice about how to write up the report that would minimize their wrong doing.
But the whole thing about an officer "trespassing" onto the front yard "in a threatening manner". They've taken a month to put together their story, and they didn't go with any comments of physical abuse.
So what, so am I. You have a problem with that? Rememeber the constititution.! Look it up.
Malamutes? Seems someone like him would favor German Shepards.
People on their own land are not exempt from the law. She's has the right to videotape, but not to interfere. She may very well be found not guilty, but the principle is still there.
Go on into your house, the rest of us will stand up for your rights in your absence.
First you call her a marxist, then you call her a nazi. Make up your fascist cop loving mind.
No doubt this was a setup from the word go!
This is an article about the incident in which Emily Good was arrested and eventually convicted. She works for an anti-foreclosure group whose tactics included putting squatters into buildings to prevent lenders from taking back their property.
In this case, a woman was in foreclosure since 2007, and the bank was finally getting around to evicting her:
“All these police come here to get me out of my home,” said Catherine Lennon. “They’re here to take me out and they got me out and they’re taking all of my furniture.”So, she was known to police as a person who forcefully resisted police, and had to be arrested before. Doesn't mean she was wrong this time, but puts into a different light the officer's claim that he felt she didn't like police.Lennon’s three-week public battle to stave off the foreclosure of her house was over.
With help from the group Take Back the Land Rochester and her neighbors, Lennon kept the bank-hired movers at bay. Protesters took shifts surrounding her house. Take Back the Land fights foreclosures and moved squatters into several foreclosed houses in the city.
“I think this is a crime to send this many police officers here. I have been here 20 years and when I call the police when there were gunshots out here, you can’t get people here in a half hour, an hour, and look at this,” said Liz Rich, a neighbor. She said she’s worried the house will become an eyesore or arson target if it’s vacant.
Seven protesters were arrested Monday while trying to block the house from police and the moving truck hired by the bank to put her belongings into storage. Police said the heavy law enforcement presence was due to advance reports there would be protests. Those arrested face charges including trespassing and disorderly conduct.
I am hooking my wagon to the constitution. Who are you to opine who should be protected by it. We are all supposed to be equal under the law. Maybe this is the right country for you.
The cop was afraid of a woman standing in her yard while several other cops were there? He should be fired for being a first class pussy!
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