Now I did watch the video, in detail, again and firmly am of the opinion that the cop was in the right.
Since we don’t know the preceding events to the video, we cannot make any judgements about the young man being arrested.
However, the girl drew attention to herself by filming no more than 6 feet or so from the arrestee’s car. A city sidewalk, at least in my city, in the residential part, is about 2 feet wide. Give another foot or so to the street and maybe 18 inches to the car and you have about 5 feet. Even with other factors, like the girl being tippy-toed on the far side of the sidewalk, you, you’re not going to get more than 6 feet out of the deal. But she did start filming on the sidewalk, because you can see that she’s backing up when the cop mentions that she’s on the sidewalk.
Cops are not trained to think of citizens as cute puppies, incapable of harm. Their training requires them to look at everybody as potential hostiles, where anybody is capable of doing anything at anytime. Like it or not, this is a necessary mindset to help ensure a cop can go home at the end of a day, without going home in a bodybag.
The girl may have been just filming, but you cannot prove to me that it would have stayed that way. By necessity, the cop has to assume it may not stay that way either and must retain the control of any situation. As one cop said to me, “you gotta be the bigger jerk at all times.”
If a cop asks you to do something, as long as it is lawful, you need to comply. To fail to comply, gives the officer a basis for making an arrest even if he’s not planning on making charges.
And yes, they can arrest you, with cause, and hold you for upto 24 hours without having to lay charges.
>>However, the girl drew attention to herself by filming no more than 6 feet or so from the arrestee’s car.<<
That statement is idiotic on its face. “Drew attention to herself”? No, that is not even close to reality. That is false. That is a lie. So cut the crap.
And no, she was not within six feet of the cop, and she was not interfering.
Those are absolutely stupid, and false, statements.
You want to live in a world where cops get to tell you every move to make, and haul you off to jail if you don’t “obey orders” while standing harmlessly on your own property. You applaud it. You should be ashamed.
Well guess what? That cuts against the grain of what liberty is all about. It is unAmerican.
Everything you say is to defend the “cop’s” rights,that he has to “feel safe” whether the danger is real or not, or if he could articulate what the specific danger was. But you don’t give a crap about citizen’s rights. That’s your problem.
You want to mischaracterize this woman as physically interfering, which is a lie. You say the woman “drew attention to herself” which anyone can see is a lie.
Until you want to own up to your dishonesty, and retract it, please don’t address me again.