You're welcome. A scummy neighborhood near Los Angeles was, of course, the locale of one of the most famous such filmings; the arrest of career violent criminal Rodney King. The video...more precisely the endless playing of the most inflammatory snippets...combined with agitation and false reporting by the Los Angeles Times, led to the Los Angeles Riots.
Trivia: The guy who made the video got shafted by a news company, selling the video and all rights for just a few hundred bucks. Years later, he lost his camera in a divorce settlement. King received a bundle of loot from the city of Los Angeles, burned through it while committing many more violent crimes, and drowned in a motel swimming pool while stoned and drunk out of his mind.
how about the suburbanite who videoed a policeman from his own lawn. the officer pulled his weapon on him.
bull drink water wrote:
how about the suburbanite who videoed a policeman from his own lawn. the officer pulled his weapon on him.
How about a reference/cite/URL to that account?
lev29
Loc: Born and living in MA.
Los-Angeles-Shooter wrote:
How about a reference/cite/URL to that account?
How eloquently put, LA Shooter! It's not (yet) that I doubt bull drink water's credibility; rather, it's meaningless to relate his fragment to anyone without the ole follow-through.
bull drink water wrote:
how about the suburbanite who videoed a policeman from his own lawn. the officer pulled his weapon on him.
You omit the cogent fact that the officer repeatedly asked the videoguy to take his hand out of his pocket. This is standard procedure for officer safety and a lawful order. The videoguy was very intent on creating a confrontation and hopefully something to make the officer look bad.
BTW, did anyone else notice that the officer had a mourning band on his shield?
lev29
Loc: Born and living in MA.
dadbecker wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cDy3tUy4Io ... It was real.....and disturbing
I agree!
It is quite disturbing that the videoguy was breaking the law and doing his level best to provoke the police officer! I agree with LA Shooter: you obviously didn't understand at least one of the major points in the article posted by him. Allow me to render a particular point of the article more explicitly for you. Please note that my use of italics is meant to convey unstated qualifiers that accompany certain terms. The use of boldface or underlining is used for emphasis.
According to the ACLU, always remain polite and
never resist a police officer (
who has already identified himself as such)
verbally, physically, or both. Resisting arrest, whether the arrest is lawful or not,
is in itself an unlawful act. Los-Angeles-Shooter wrote:
You omit the cogent fact that the officer repeatedly asked the videoguy to take his hand out of his pocket. This is standard procedure for officer safety and a lawful order. The videoguy was very intent on creating a confrontation and hopefully something to make the officer look bad.
BTW, did anyone else notice that the officer had a mourning band on his shield?
No, I didn't notice the officer's mourning band.
I guess the police officer didn't want to go through with arresting this videoguy, but he would have been within his rights to do so. If this videoguy was so astonished at this officer's behavior, WHERE IS THE FOLLOW-UP? Specifically, any evidence that the officer was disciplined for his actions?
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