Posted on 06/27/2011 2:32:01 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
(CNN) -- Prosecutors dismissed a charge Monday against a community activist who was arrested while filming a police encounter with her iPod camera because she was concerned it was initiated by racial profiling.
"I'm feeling vindicated, I'm feeling energetic" Emily Good, 28, of Rochester, New York, said of the decision to have the charge dropped. Good had been charged with obstruction of governmental administration when she began videotaping the interrogation of a black man by three white officers in front of her house on May 12, she said.
"Based upon the evidence, we could not make out the elements of the crime charged," Monroe County First Assistant District Attorney Sandra Doorley said.
Good said she intends to file a civil suit.
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I was reading through and wondering what the deal was, so I went and found the video and watched it.
The cop was wrong and overstepping his bounds, clearly. Fact was, she was in her own yard. He came over to her, he saw she was not dangerous, he should have just dropped it, but he is the new style cop that now flips out if you don’t follow them like a slave. My friends who are cops are nowhere this ridiculous.
Watch the video before making a statement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXA-KA-pEKw
The story:
http://www.whec.com/news/stories/s2174896.shtml
>>What a whiner you and this Rochester community activist<<
You are too STUPID to recognize that you are the only moron jumping up and defending this.
And you are too STUPID to recognize why this is a threat to liberty.
As Mark Levin would call you, you are a “drone.” Get bent, you imbecile.
Well if you are an illegal alien, then your rights are not protected by the US Constitution.
OK, then define necessary precautions. Would any crowd watching fall under the officer’s purview of being able to take necessary precautions?
I'm with you.
Just break down doors and shoot folks inside their own home in cold blood with a woman and child in the house, or shoot a guy multiple times in the back as he exits a big box store. Things are a lot less complicated that way./s
The main thing those two incidents have in common? The videotape evidence was either "lost" to "malfunctioning" equipment (Costco shooting), or sealed by the authorities (helmet cam video of the actual Guerena shooting).
“False arrest”
That I know. The only right non-citizen’s can expect under the US constitution is that they cannot be treated in a hostile way, but they cannot expect to have the same protection as citizens.
So be nice to me. :)
She is an idiot. Stop defending her.
In my opinion, watch but not interfere.
A cop has to make split-second decisions as to what to do in any situation and he’s not always going to make the right ones. But it’s best if the cop has determined an arrest is necessary to let it happen peacefully.
You can always address any inadequacies in lawful ways.
Okay, sorry I snapped at you. I was wrong.
You seem very loveable. Okay I LOVE YOU!!! There, I said it. :-D
You make some silly posts, but so have I, and I will again. There, all better???
:-)
Rights are violated in a police encounter...
--THEN--
Jurisdictions get sued....
...Then settle... or lose in court...
Bad cops get fired!
I put the Guerena situation squarely on the sheriff. I don’t blame SWAT at all, because they only reacted with the information they had.
The sheriff should have known that the patterns of Guerena were not the sort of patterns that needed heavy gunfire. He was a family man, worked 12 hour shifts and there were no traffic patterns, at the man’s home that indicated that he kept serious amounts of drugs there or weapons.
Two guys in armor could have knocked on the door and served the warrant and the premises could have been searched in a peaceful manner.
The sheriff needs to go, IMO.
I feel special, thank you.
I don’t take anything said here personal, so no worries.
My opinions are based on my chats with police that come into my store, so I have a feel as to why they do things or what they are probably trying to do when they tell somebody to do something.
A few cops are bad apples, but most are decent people who are trying to do a decent job with few complications. If you talked with police, they will tell you how seemingly innocuous situations turned deadly for somebody quickly and that is the first thing they are trying to prevent.
Damn. You two need to get a room.
While I’ll grant you five points for making the attempt to move the goalposts, I’ll have to deduct at least ten points for failing at it...
Damn. You two need to get a room.
...She is an idiot. Stop defending her....”
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Zeppo is not defending “her”.
He/she is defending the constitution.
Why don’t you just STFU?
You are an idiot.
In both of the cases I cited, the shootings were done in the interest of "officer safety". As it turns out, the danger to the officers involved was questionable, at best.
Then, mysteriously, the video evidence in both cases is unavailable for bogus reasons.
Officer safety should always be a concern, but it should never trump a citizen's right to move about freely on their own property if they are not acting in a threatening manner. Furthermore, given that the "official" video records have a strange habit of disappearing when the actions of the police are questionable, I hope more folks make a habit of recording evidence that the authorities cannot simply "lose", or "seal" from public scrutiny.
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