RAW: COP ARRESTS TV REPORTER ON CAMERA DURING COVERAGE OF TRAFFIC ACCIDENT

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RAW: COP ARRESTS TV REPORTER ON CAMERA DURING COVERAGE OF TRAFFIC ACCIDENT

Apr 21, 2009 34 Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits

Anytime you have Law Enforcement versus Media, I’m inclined to support the cops. In this case, not so much.

Mrs. Scoot

All that for a traffic accident? Jeez.
Jarhead68

The new tone with Obumble in the White House. Fascism has arrived.
Shaun

“I’m just trying to leave sir”

Dip shit report, “doing his job” – and that includes disregarding authority and law enforcement instructions.

He’s lucky he wasn’t crying “don’t taze me bro”

:gun:

dilly

moron comment

SgtJenz

Be interesting to know what that reporter did to piss off the cop.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=89280654 DEVILDOG81MM

must have covered a tea party and didn’t call the crowd radical extremist

http://www.operatorchan.org Hughes_dePayens

I agree, i usually support the cops, but this is obvious bullshit overstepping.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=89280654 DEVILDOG81MM

imagine how he would act if there wasn’t a camera there
http://settlesdown.wordpress.com settlesdown

Get ready for it, because if things keep going they’re way, this will be the norm. Being hauled off for descent by a college dropout “just doing his job”.
grumpy mechanic

Damn , none of you guys must be from So. Cal..
I’m siding with the cop.
L.a Co. Sheriff asks you to leave twice you had better be leaving, I don’t care who you are.
Looks to me like the Officer was just trying to secure the site, protect the privacy of the injured and protect the asshole reporter of being injured himself (parking on the center divider is dangerous and illegal).

You guys watch the same video that I saw?
XD45c

Just my opinion, but if I had to deal with the assholes this guy does, AND then deal with the asshole press; well, I’d get a little short tempered, too.

I lived in El Paso (which is where it looks like the cop is from the patch, maybe NM) for 7 long years, and if the cops tell me to get lost, I’m gone before they say it a second time.

Dumping the camera was a little over the top, but if you’re swinging for the fences, put a lot of spin on the ball.
RANGER

cops probably caused the accident in the first place Then trying to cover uo what happened!! No wonder why they don’t want cameras!! :gun:
sudndeth

The reporter had every right to be there!!! Even if you do not like the press you should like the freedom of it. That is our Constitutional right! All of you saying “just do what your told”, but then say our constitution is being trampled on, should watch this again. Also, what was the military doing there? Toward the end it looks like a guy running to the scene in DCU’s. I could be mistaken, but I saw DCU’s and boonie hat.

dilly

good point. i’m thinking maybe the truck that rolled over had some military hardware in it and the cop was instructed to remove all prying eyes. that’s the only reason, besides the cop is an asshole or its illegal to park on the shoulder, that i can think of to warrant such a harsh response.

http://bejohngalt.com/ IP727

They were both assholes. One grenade would get them both.
Edd Bernard

“Looks to me like the Officer was just trying to secure the site, protect the privacy of the injured and protect the asshole reporter of being injured himself (parking on the center divider is dangerous and illegal)” Give me a break! In my opinion it looks like the cop needs some vacation time. For God’s sake, the two of them were pains in the ass at best. I wonder how he would have reacted if he had a real hoodlum in front of him.
http://www.dirtydozensbunker.com Sanders

Another sociopathic cop on a power trip.
http://none PatriotofPast(Thomas)

Notice the guy wearing cammo going to the accident scene. Kinda strange to arrest a reporter but NOT that guy?
GRIZZ

Why argue with a cop.Fuck him.Meet your new cell mate dumbass.
Bill Smith

Look, I don’t know what happened before the beginning of the clip, and I wasn’t there either. I am a former cop.

An important rule: Know how you want a situation to end. That doesn’t mean you can’t have alternatives; doesn’t mean you can’t alter your plan. But this cop — having succeeded in getting the guy to AGREE to leave — THEN decides to arrest him. He gives the appearance of simply wanting/needing to throw his weight around for no good reason that I can see. It’s not a crime scene; traffic is not being blocked by the news crew. He’s not even in the travelled portion of the road; this new commotion is a new show that is DRAWING rubberneckers, creating a whole NEW problem.

Just a guess, but I’d say this cop has some other problem on his mind, and that this will go down as not his best day.

Hardball1911

My guess would be that the reporter had been asked a boatload of times prior to what you see.

Remember, he who owns the footage can cut and paste anyway he’d like.

The reporter was being a douche, point blank with the, “He can shoot if he wants…” bullshit. He was asked to leave, and should have done so respectfully, not like a 12 year old kid. This cop was manipulated into doing exactly what the reporter wanted him to do I would imagine.

But the cop will back down and be the one to apologize and back off in the basic “public interest”.

Reporters have a tendency to challenge authority just for the sake of challenging authority. This guy was probably just at his limit with the bullshit and said, ‘Ok, you either do what I tell you to, this is my scene, or you suffer the consequences.’ Act like a used douche, get treated like a used douche. You get your ass thrown around.
http://www.onetakemedia.net Matt

There is a lot we didn’t see, not a bright idea to park where he parked at all. I tend to side with the police in these type of matters unless the footage shows different.

In this case the footage is incomplete, so I’d withhold judgment til the entire footage has been seen.

Dan 1950

We did not see the lead up.
We have no idea what took place prior to this.
I bet there is other video of this someplace.
Dan
Firebad

When you all have been on the side of the road 4 feet from cars going 75mph bent over trying to secure a patient to a board to transport them or cutting the roof off a car, then maybe you all will realize how dangerous it is. that reporter and those bystanders were WAY too close to that accident scene.

And trust me the police officer had every right to clear them off the scene, and had every right to arrest them for refusing to leave.

I’m sure you would appreciate that cop if you were the one laying on the ground bleeding, and some asshole comes over and startes videotaping you in your worst moment of your life.
sudndeth

Look at the clip there are no cars going by and 75mph, and the cop jumped the fenced center divider to get to the reporter. Plus, why is he not arresting the other drivers in front of a silver civic, or the guy in scrubs taking snap shots too? Being douche is not illegal and that is a public road the cop had no authority to tell them too leave. The “victims” of the accident have no privacy rights there either.
http://www.yankeemom.com yankeemom

My first impulse is to wonder how annoying the reporter was. I’d trust a cop over a reporter any day. But as was mentioned, the video starts in the middle of it all and who knows what transpired before and who did what.
BTJoe112

THey should have Rodney Kinged his ass.
LG

Another cop acting like a cowboy!! There is a time and place for such aggression by the cop, this was not one of them.
GregGS

They’ll be seeing that jackbooted brown shirt thug in court. The day they stop you from reporting car accidents
there’s no telling what you can’t report.
anonymous hourly worker

My experience: cops and cameras don’t mix at all. They don’t like being filmed or having their picture taken. That’s for the “official department spokesperson.” Try whipping out your videocamera on one of them sometime. Have bail money ready.
Tim Roesch

This should be a training video for the ACCDF.

1. What happened before? Either the police officer was stressed and acting poorly or there was something else going on; maybe the reporter hadn’t been told twice to leave (maybe this was time fifty and fifty one) or maybe there was almost another accident because of the reporter we didn’t see. The possibilities are endless.
If you want to see facist cops…look at the Rodney King video and the report of one of the cops telling a female CHP officer that if she wanted what the perp was getting she would stick her nose in. I am paraphrasing…I had a friend in LASD who told me that Sheriff Block had a few words to say about that to Gates.

2. Yeah, what was going on with the guy in combat dress it looked like? Was this a potential hazmat situation? On an accident scene two people, twenty feet away at the same scene can get vastly different reads on what’s going on. Trust me.

3. I can say that while holding traction on a woman’s neck on the Mass Pike I had a Chicopee police officer cursing at me and demanding I leave the scene. He even tried to pull my hands off the woman’s neck (she was in a roll over, glass in her eyes, avulsed scalp (skull showing) but concious +4 (wow)). It took two firefighters and a Statie to calm him down and stop him from trying to pull me out of the car. Cops can get overwrought and even downright facist BUT…

4. We need to be smarter and better than everyone else. We can not be leaping to conclusions and setting up a fire base there before war is even declared. We need to know, not guess, not think.

Read the Phantom Tollbooth, people, especially the chapter about leaping to conclusions.

We do NOT have the luxury of ONE mistake like misjudging a situation like that.

I think a follow up would be a good thing.
vincenzo4

Oh, Inspectpr Foley, tsk, tsk, tsk, how dare ypu take seriously that oath you took; how dare to manage a horrific police scene; how dare you assert yourself. Bad Officer. Career over, make sure that guilt eats you alive and remember, we want lap dogs, not watch dogs.
Sergeant, if El Paso P.D. stabs you in the back, I will hire you on the spot.
vincenzo4

I have worked the street. Fuck the naysayers, all you are seeing on the film is what the camera holder wants you to see, and the bullshit theatrics after the fact when the probable cause was already established.

If you want an example of going your way and makine the demon police back off, it already is in place, Los Angeles. Look at it real good. Los Angeles is fucked, out gunned, outnumbered and cops who aren’t allowed to do shit.

Who suffers? That little latino or black family in a roaring scumbag ghetto, who are afraid to say one word, and who are afraid to go outside. That’s your fault, not the police.

A very close brother officer friend of mine shot and killed a 1q6 year old kid who shot at him no less thanm six times while on a foot chase in a ghetto. Rounds that went everywhere from the kid. Then he stopped and turned the gun on my friend.

My friend is affected mentally for the rest of his life-YET he had to endure SEVEN tribunalsm racist bullshit in newspapers which of course only gave ONE side of the story, and his career is in effect over and he is off the street.

You have Eric Holder, stay tuned. More capitulation, more surrender. But Obama is so kewl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tim Roesch

The more I think about this and see it the more it bothers me. Something is going on, something is pinging a memory allocation point.

First, note the childishness of the reporter. He isn’t upset or indignant…he’s acting more like a thirteen year old caught at something he shouldn’t have done, knows he shouldn’t have done BUT thinks he should get away with for some reason.

And the cameraman (woman) seems more ashamed in how he handles the camera-like he’s unsure if he should set the camera down or film or just walk away.

Something happened here. Did the reporter interfere with the treatment of a victim, remove a sheet over a deceased for a better shot…?