Police Spokesman LOSES IT After Getting Called Names - Rebel HQ

[ItsjustMe]

[sop]

1. Hard to know who to root for in this mess.

Had this crew been black, things would have turned out differently.

[Leith]

2. ikr?

A pox on both their houses. The main characters in this little drama all need lessons in manners.

[soryang]

3. those technical legal distinctions

concerning the higher standard for abuse verbally against a police officer before it amounts to disorderly conduct is all well and good. But don't try this yourself, the cops will likely beat the crap out of you, arrest you, and book you at the jail with who knows what. Anyone who provokes a police officer like this is a fool.

[rsdsharp]

4. One of the guys WAS arrested when they went to the police station

to file a complaint against the officers involved. Guess who the officers were that arrested him; AFTER they refused to allow him to file a complaint.

The star of this video was placed on (paid) administrative leave after the police and mayor received hundreds of phone calls complaining when the video played on Youtube.

[Ohio Joe]

5. IMO, that is the reason things like this should be done

People should not live in fear of the police harming them when they have done nothing wrong and ops like this should be exposed at every turn. They should be fire and prevented from ever being in law enforcement again.

[tishaLA]

6. +1000

I watch these "cop watcher" and "1st Amendment Audit" videos all the time and the way cops consistently attempt to abuse power, attempt to violate rights by demanding ID despite having no reasonable articulable suspicion, and attempting to prevent people from filming police in public is astonishing.

[soryang]

7. there's the technically correct legal interpretation

and there is what the police, prosecutors and courts do in real life. The two top trial lawyers in my state, advised their law students and lawyers not to do things like this. After you skull is fractured, or you are suffocated to death, you won't have the satisfaction of knowing you were legally correct, and some later court decision in your favor isn't go to put your life back together.