It doesn't take long and it doesn't cost a dime.
It took a year before the horribly tragic story of Sunny Sheu to see the light of day.
Hat tip to The Daily Bail for getting this out there in a big way.
It is not clear what Good said before she started recording
I think it's pretty obvious that she didn't say anything at all. He's been trained to give that response.
"I feel threatened."
"You said something bad, and it's not on this tape."
Canned responses to justify the coming clampdown.
She wasn't arrested for videotaping.
Her profession is "community activist" and she was arrested in March for blocking a foreclosure.
I see another “beer summit” in the back yard of the White Crib. Who was “all wee-weed up” and “acting stupidly” this time?
>>“You seem very anti-police … due to what you said to me before you started taping me.”
Being anti-police is a crime now? We live a fascist state and it started long before Obama. The only difference is that now they know they have an administration in the WH who will back their fascist tactics all the way.
Apparenty, the neighbors, who also witnessed this, expressed their support for Ms. Good.
In what could be reasonably construed as a retaliatory response, each car owner in the neighborhood was subsequently cited for a traffic violation.
Every car parked a fraction of an inch over the twelve inch limit form the curb received a ticket.
Video and follow-up availabe at The Daily Bail linked below.
POLICE STATE U.S.A. - Woman Arrested For Filming Cops From Her Front Yard (SHOCK VIDEO)
Looks like the Rochester Police Department could use a thorough overhaul, to banish the gangstas.
Video recording or watching a police traffic stop at that close distance is actually a dumb thing to do. If the stop went bad people could get hurt. Including the person filming the action. Anything could go wrong and it only takes a split second to happen. Filming the traffic stop could cause the police to be unnecessarily distracted adding even more danger to an already dangerous situation. I’m not sure though how the arresting officers actions will be interpreted by the courts. Some here feel the person filming the incident was just exercising her right to do so. That maybe so, but putting police officers, bystanders and themselves in more danger is not a smart thing to do.
If you do not obey my order, I will arrest you and take you to jail.
We own NO property,that is unless you are a fake Indian or the like, all the property is rented from the government and we became little more than squatters once, the socialist government was given the right to tax our Now so called property.
A policeman does not feel safe in a public place because someone is videotaping him.
But the police can videotape you with surveillence cameras while you are in public.
The police are now placed on a level higher than ordinary citizens.
“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.
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.
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.
Malamutes? Seems someone like him would favor German Shepards.
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.
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.