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Charge dismissed against woman who videotaped police encounter (Rochester NY)
CNN.com ^ | 6/27/11 | Jesse Solomon, CNN

Posted on 06/27/2011 2:32:01 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

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To: SoldierDad

>>By the way, people can, and are, arrested for situations where after the fact charges are dismissed, and the officer not held to account for the arrest (in other words, the arrest was appropriate, but the DA decided not to pursue charges). Simply because THIS DA didn’t have any balls to stand behind this officer’s arrest of this woman doesn’t mean that the arrest was invalid or inappropriate. <<

So when the DA said there was NO EVIDENCE OF A CRIME, and the Rochester Police Department offered none that we know of, in your mind, the DA is a liar and a coward.

Got it.


201 posted on 06/28/2011 11:27:22 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (Dear Lord, Please judge Barack Hussein Obama for betraying Israel, and not the whole nation. Amen.)
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To: SoldierDad

You should watch the video. Early in the video, before he started to approach the citizen, lawfully video taping him on her own property, he turned his back on the suspect (who apparently turned out to be innocent as well) and started looking at a speaking to the woman. The suspect was within about a foot of him at the time.

But your statement about the suspect being in the patrol car further undermines the bully cop’s claim that he felt endangered by the woman. The most potentially dangerous part of the traffic stop was over by the time he started shining the flashlight in the woman’s face and bullying her on her own property.

I have great respect for police officers, but this particular one is a bully who lacks the intelligence, courage, integrity, and most of all, respect for the law, to do the job.


202 posted on 06/28/2011 11:33:38 AM PDT by Above My Pay Grade
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

The cops actions are defendable. He has his safety to be concerned about, even if you cannot appreciate it.


203 posted on 06/28/2011 11:44:20 AM PDT by Jonty30
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To: Jonty30

No they are not. And the fact that the DA said the woman committed no crime, means nothing to you.

You are beyond help.


204 posted on 06/28/2011 11:54:15 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (Dear Lord, Please judge Barack Hussein Obama for betraying Israel, and not the whole nation. Amen.)
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To: Above My Pay Grade; Jonty30
After watching the video for the THIRD time, I have to call you a bald faced liar. The "suspect" was handcuffed. At NO time did the officer turn his back on the HANDCUFFED suspect. The woman continued videoing the two officers who were going through the suspects vehicle while the other officer took the suspect to the patrol car.

The woman, after the officer placed the suspect in the car, and continued talking to the woman about his concerns, then moved the camera to where that officer was standing - the lights from the patrol vehicle obscurred the officer until he walked up to the front of the vehicle. In the video it is quite clear that the woman was NOT in her yard, but was on the sidewalk (public domain, and near to the police action, not private property).

Even after the woman was removed from the area in the patrol car, the people, who continued the video, are clearly heard speaking about the fact that the woman was standing on the sidewalk (again, not private property, and clearly too close to where the officers were performing their jobs).

Your, and other's, reaction to what this officer did is puzzling to me. The woman was clearly too close to the the police when they were enacting a stop and search of the suspect. She argued with the officers after the request to remove herself from the area. She continued to argue, and did not step back onto her property (clearly discerned in the video) until just before the officer decided to arrest her for interfering. Your lies will not hide the truth shown in the video.

205 posted on 06/28/2011 11:56:24 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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To: Jonty30

If the cop was threatened by the woman being outside, why did he not arrest the OTHERS who were outside?

Why didn’t he arrest THEM????? Why just the woman with the camera?

I’ll be waiting for your answer.


206 posted on 06/28/2011 11:56:52 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (Dear Lord, Please judge Barack Hussein Obama for betraying Israel, and not the whole nation. Amen.)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

About time. You sure take long enough to allow facts to sink in.


207 posted on 06/28/2011 11:57:25 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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To: SoldierDad

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208 posted on 06/28/2011 11:58:23 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (Dear Lord, Please judge Barack Hussein Obama for betraying Israel, and not the whole nation. Amen.)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears; Jonty30

Let me see. Could it be that the “others” you speak of were ON THE WOMAN’S PROPERTY and not on the sidewalk as she was? Geeze. You’d think the video would be sufficent evidence of that fact without this needing to be pointed out to you.


209 posted on 06/28/2011 11:59:14 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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To: SoldierDad

And that is honestly your mindset? You truly are an idiot.


210 posted on 06/28/2011 11:59:14 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (Dear Lord, Please judge Barack Hussein Obama for betraying Israel, and not the whole nation. Amen.)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

You’re great at insult, but short on understanding simple truths and facts.


211 posted on 06/28/2011 11:59:58 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
You, sir, are an ASS. You're use of a strawman argument is reprehensible.
212 posted on 06/28/2011 12:01:52 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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To: SoldierDad

I guess you didn’t watch the video. She stepped back off the sidewalk early on.

I think that’s a lot of what may be the problem, your poor powers of observation.

But, your official stance is the DA is a coward and a liar. No pretense at objectivity whatsoever.

And thus ends any chance of anyone taking you seriously in any way.


213 posted on 06/28/2011 12:02:02 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (Dear Lord, Please judge Barack Hussein Obama for betraying Israel, and not the whole nation. Amen.)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Because the woman was the only one to enter and become a factor in the arrest. If she kept her distance and let the arrest happen peacefully, judging from this particular video, the cop would have likely left her alone.


214 posted on 06/28/2011 12:02:23 PM PDT by Jonty30
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

I guess you failed to see where I watched the video THREE times. Yes, she retreated, slightly (and I mean very slightly). But, she was still on the sidewalk as evidenced by the conversation that took place by her comrades after the woman was taken away. Epic fail on your part.


215 posted on 06/28/2011 12:04:15 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Well, I guess I’ll go hang my head in shame at the thought that YOU won’t take me serious. Oh, the huge manatee.


216 posted on 06/28/2011 12:05:35 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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To: Jonty30

>>If she kept her distance and let the arrest happen peacefully, judging from this particular video, the cop would have likely left her alone.
<<

She did keep her distance. Just as much distance as everyone else.

And the arrest had already taken place when Johnny Jackboot decided to show everybody what a tough man he was, and could boss hery around.

Again, that exposes the LIE that the cop felt endangered by her proximity, because others were just as close, and he didn’t bother them.

And videotaping from your own property is not a crime.

what part of NO CRIME WAS COMMITTED do you not understand?


217 posted on 06/28/2011 12:07:40 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (Dear Lord, Please judge Barack Hussein Obama for betraying Israel, and not the whole nation. Amen.)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

You’re right, her arrest means nothing to me, because the police officer was correct in arresting her. You don’t get close to an officer arresting somebody.

The officer doesn’t know you’re real intent. He doesn’t know if you’re just an interested bystander or you’re going to go after his gun or if your going to attack him.


218 posted on 06/28/2011 12:10:43 PM PDT by Jonty30
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To: SoldierDad

She stepped back onto her yard.

The cop never dispiuted this, but kept walking.. What was his next complaint? Get in your yard? No, because she was already there.

So he says “I don’t feel comfortable with you standing behind me.”

But, in your world, the cop is right, although no crime was committed (and you can cite none), and the DA is a coward and a liar (although you don’t know that).

You are a real piece of work.
lol


219 posted on 06/28/2011 12:12:47 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (Dear Lord, Please judge Barack Hussein Obama for betraying Israel, and not the whole nation. Amen.)
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To: Jonty30

>> You don’t get close to an officer arresting somebody.<<

She didn’t.


220 posted on 06/28/2011 12:13:42 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (Dear Lord, Please judge Barack Hussein Obama for betraying Israel, and not the whole nation. Amen.)
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