Police Charged a Woman for Recording Them Holding a Black Man at Gunpoint. Now, They Owe Her

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A woman charged with a misdemeanor for recording Minnesota police officers holding two Black men at gunpoint settled her federal lawsuit against the city for $70,000, according to the Star Tribune. In addition to monetary compensation, the city also agreed to policy reform within the police department.

Arizona recently attempted to make recording police encounters illegal but they surely weren’t the first to try. Some of these restrictions don’t look like laws but instead a misdemeanor. Take Amy Koopman for example. Koopman, a white woman, went on Facebook live in 2018 to record an interaction between Robbinsdale police and two Black men. She was only one of many people who crowded around the intersection, waiting anxiously to see if the police would fire at the two as their guns were drawn.

“Three squad cars with three officers out of their cars, guns drawn on what I could see at the time was one Black man,” Koopman said via CBS News. “Because what was in my mind [was] Philando Castile.”

Koopman talked to the officers from a distance and after she put her phone away, they charged her with obstructing the legal process. Her charges were later dropped by a Hennepin County judge.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/police-charged-woman-recording-them-185000938.html

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Should have been $700,000, they would think twice before doing it again

and they still might.

The ONLY way to fix the police problem is to sue the cities HARD when cops do the shit they do.

Then the citizens can pay higher taxes, at some point they will demand decent cops.