Cell Phone Picture Called Obstruction Of Justice

[NorthernSun]

A neighbor said she witnessed the incident and could not believe what she saw.

"He opened up the gate and Neffy was coming down and he went up to Neffy, pulled him down, had Neffy on the car and was telling him, 'You should have just went in the house and minded your own business instead of trying to take pictures off your picture phone,'" said Gerrell Martin.

Cruz said police told him that he broke a new law that prohibits people from taking pictures of police with cell phones.

http://www.nbc10.com/news/9574663/detail.html

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

1. Nothing new there

Cops beat the shit out of us in the sixties for taking pictures of them beating the shit out of us.

[havocmom]

2. They want folks to stay inside, not watch, not question & never document

That's how things went down in Germany in the 30s.

We have to watch each other's backs. We have to question. We have to document.

Fuck the fascists.

[midnight]

5. I questioned a cop who came to my home several hours after

I pulled to the side of the road to let the police car by, and then proceeded. This cop asked me if I was on this road, and I said yes ,and asked why they were doing what they were doing to another driver. This cop then wrote me a ticket for disorderly conduct. I went to court and the court room was filled with cops with guns. Lawyers were told to be quiet by a judge, and it was very bizarre.

[HuffleClaw]

3. what a disgrace

god forbid someone documents police abuse. 'You should have just went in the house and minded your own business' *puke*

[midnight]

4. Do these police think that they can just make up random

excuses to manipulate situations that suite their case. Good god this is crazy.

[sleipnir]

6. Neflty just won himself at least a cool 250,000. Buh, bye raises for cops

I can't wait to see the lawsuit, the Philly police will be going without a raise after this one goes through the courts.

And good too. I hope he sues the shit out of the city and the police force.

I still stand by my unscientific, but personal experience poll that 6 out of 10 cops are crooked or plain rotten apples not deserving of the badge or perhaps even citizenship in America (they'd do better under a totalitarian regime.)

[saigon68]

10. They are thugs

many of them are joining Blackwater to go get a few "Legal Kills"

[ixion]

15. yep, you said it

The majority, by far, are thugs. Ironically, it's what gets them into law enforcement. :crazy:

[EST]

12. Several years ago, I had a number of projects which enabled

me to spend quite a bit of time around police personnel.

I had labored under the apprehension that police suffered a common malady--uniform syndrome. The uniform does, indeed, in large part, make the man. (I first discovered this on a personal basis when I was in "band" in junior high school, in the early sixties)
Police people run the gamut, just as in other population mixes, from good and decent to outright criminals and crooks.

There is, unfortunately and for a lot of reasons, an emphasis on bullies, crooks and con men. When someone observes that criminals and cops are largely cut from the same cloth, I have to agree.

Are cops and crooks the same people? Yep, they are, and like any group, they vary from good, mostly honest, thoughtful folks to hardened criminals, totally inimical to society, destroyers who have mastered the cover up, able to conceal themselves, somewhat like closeted gays who are the ultimate in homophobic irrationality, and justify their conduct to themselves if not society at large.

The problem arises from the fact that cops are armed, their word is usually not questioned, the proportion of good guys to bad guys seems to favor the bad guys, and the average citizen hasn't a chance.

[951-Riverside]

7. First whats the specific code and who passed it?

[TexasLawyer]

8. a new law that "prohibits people from taking pictures

of police with cell phones"? I think not.

[Kiouni]

9. that's not a normal thing to do

in the night, to walk out and start clicking 1 mb pics in the dark of cops. I'm sorry, but i might side with the cops over a drug dealers neighbor.

[rman]

11. Irrelevant - there's either a law against it or not.

Cops aren't supposed to make up rules as they go.

[niyad]

13. oh my, guilt by association, right? the guy lives near a drug dealer, so

he MUST be doing something wrong, and therefore, the police are right, even if they are lying. please answer how in the HELL taking pictures is obstruction of justice? if you actually swallow that bilgewater, you must have no problems with the police state we have become, and that is sad.

[DoYouEverWonder]

14. Too bad someone had video camera when Rodney King

got beat up, because without the video the beating didn't happen.

Try proving police brutality without pictures. It's impossible.

[Kolesar]

16. My scoutmaster testified about police brutality he witnessed

...it did no good. The court let the cop off after he beat up a teenage motorist in a traffic stop.