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SoldierDad, I’m likely with you; I certainly see the start of the video as a person too close to an active crime scene.

I also don’t have a problem with the police including part of someone’s yard in a crime scene, and asking people who live there to move away.

I think the cop was stupid to arrest her, and I think she’s a really good activist, with a good activist friend, who played this perfectly. It was a setup, and they scored big.

If everybody who ever won in traffic court could sue for having to drag their butts to traffic court, like people seem to think the standard should be here, we’d probably never give anybody a ticket.

I predicted in a prior thread that she’d get her case dismissed, and she did. I also predicted that in the end, she wouldn’t win a lawsuit. I’m standing by that prediction, but seeing how many good conservatives were taken in by her propaganda, I could lose this one.

After all, we still have freepers insisting she was arrested for filming the traffic stop, when the only reason to believe that is the woman put a title on her video saying that she was arrested for videotaping.

Even though she was never asked to stop, there is nothing on her own video where the officer mentions her stopping the video, the officer didn’t confiscate her video, and didn’t ask the guy who took her iphone to stop, or arrest him when he continued to film.

I tried this experiment, which everybody should try at work. Get 4 co-workers. Show two of them the full video, and two of them the video starting after the title.

You’ll be amazed at the difference of opinion at the end. Those who see the title will be looking for the cop to come after the woman, and will see it. Those who don’t see the title will see a woman being belligerant and interfering with a traffic stop, and might even clap when the cop finally arrests her.

Thanks for the insightful post (one of just a few I’ve been pinged to tonight). I agree (and stated so before now) that the officer could have used a different tact, which may have led to a different outcome (again, depending upon the intent of Ms. Good, and her reaction). But, and I’ve said this before too, given the way he approached her behavior I can well understand this outcome. I suppose it is possible, given how some on FR who have held out support for this woman, that her faux suit might go her way, though I seriously doubt it. Be careful bringing up traffic court and trafic tickets, though. There are some really rabid people on FR for whom that topic is also a highly charged one. I, like you, have wondered at the accusations that she was arrested for videoing the officers during the traffic stop, given that the video was never mentioned by the officer, nor did it stop taking place, nor did the video become the property of the PD, nor did the person who continued videoing become a target by the police. All facts completely ignored by those who seem to have nothing but hatred for cops. Your experiment sheds a great deal of light on this situation. I think it would be interesting to continue the experiment with a larger “n”.