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Beaten for Filming a Beating, Woman Says
BALTIMORE (CN) - Baltimore police beat up a woman and smashed her camera for filming them beating up a man, telling her: "You want to film something bitch? Film this!" the woman claims in court.
Makia Smith sued the Baltimore Police Department, Police Commissioner Anthony Batts and police Officers Nathan Church, William Pilkerton, Jr., Nathan Ulmer and Kenneth Campbell in Federal Court.
Smith claims she was stuck in stand-still rush hour traffic in northern Baltimore when she saw the defendant officers beating up and arresting a young man.
She says pulled out her camera, stood on her car's door sill and filmed the beating.
"Officer Church saw plaintiff filming the beating and ran at her," the complaint states. "He scared her and she sat back in her vehicle. As he ran at her, he yelled, 'You want to film something bitch? Film this!'
http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/05/10/57519.htm
Purplehazed
(179 posts)here....
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d06_1365645321
Hope she prevails.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Imagine the horror of that child watching someone beating up their mommy.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,789 posts)The Wizard
(12,482 posts)of uniform worshipers. Anyone in uniform is a hero. The Rodney King beating recorded on video and subsequent acquittal by a jury sent a message that police are always right.
Nanjing to Seoul
(2,088 posts)But one of my posts got blocked for saying the same thing you said.
But the cops can do no wrong (and other RW talking points) posted on DU survive juries.
tblue
(16,350 posts)There are too many bad cops and too many soldiers who enlist so they can blow someone away with impunity. I respect them all and I am concerned about the well being of the injured and the good ones, but I don't put all of them automatically in that category.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)in the Silva thread because I said I wouldn't call 911 to tell them I had video proof that the cops killed Silva, I would call the local TV station. Here is a hint, folks- cops are not your friends, and if you can prove they broke the law they will beat, or try to kill you, too.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)That if you get footage like this, quickly send it to someone else to preserve it.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)if the cops get the phone first the evidence will disappear.
titanicdave
(429 posts)the same type of shit was going down here in Seattle
Incitatus
(5,317 posts)Cops Vs. Clouds: New App Will Keep Authorities from Deleting iPhone Videos
Scott Shackford|Jun. 29, 2012 11:45 am
Carlos Miller of Photography is Not a Crime is helping publicize (and test) a new iPhone app that automatically streams video as a user is recording it and stores it remotely in a cloud, thus preventing grabby law enforcement officers from deleting footage.
http://reason.com/blog/2012/06/29/cops-vs-clouds-new-app-will-keep-authori
Soon we will see the first video of a cop destroying someone's camera and thinking the evidence is gone.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,789 posts)"The internet treats censorship as a routing problem and routes around it." -- John Gilmore.
"Given enough eyes all bugs are shallow." -- Eric Raymond. Note: you can think of a violation of a person's civil liberties as a bug in the social fabric.
Note that destroying a camera is attempted (and possibly successful) destruction of evidence which is a crime. In California (for example) the destroyer must know that the evidence is going to be used as evidence.
The California crime of destroying or concealing evidence is a misdemeanor .19 The maximum penalty is up to six (6) months in county jail, a fine of up to one thousand dollars ($1,000), or both.20
A cop destroying a camera filming them beating somebody knows they are destroying evidence.
Second, you have to have destroyed or concealed the evidence "willfully."5 This means that you need to have actually intended to do it.6
Because it is a cop doing it, there might be additional charges something like "abuse of public trust" or corruption.
dogknob
(2,431 posts)http://www.pixiq.com/article/introducing-tapin-the-new-iphone-app -- (drupal 'site is down' notice)