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posted by CoolHand on Thursday September 22 2016, @07:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the keeping-an-eye-on-big-bro dept.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/09/cops-record-themselves-allegedly-fabricating-charges-with-suspects-camera/

In a US federal civil rights lawsuit, a Connecticut man has shared footage to bolster his claims that police illegally confronted the pedestrian because he was filming one of them. Authorities seized Michael Picard's camera and his permitted pistol, and the officers involved then accidentally recorded themselves allegedly fabricating charges against the man.

Picard's police encounter began as he was protesting a sobriety checkpoint while lawfully carrying a handgun in a holster. The plaintiff often protests near sobriety checkpoints in the Hartford region and is known by locals and police in the area, according to court documents. "Cops Ahead: Keep Calm and Remain Silent," read the 3-foot-by-2-foot sign Picard held up to motorists ahead of the checkpoint in West Hartford last year.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by edIII on Thursday September 22 2016, @10:32PM

    by edIII (791) on Thursday September 22 2016, @10:32PM (#405313)

    I think most people learn that by the time they're 10 years old (from conversation, not first-hand experience).

    Actually, no. Due to complete utter pieces of shit like you, we have schools with police officers that will place handcuffs on a 7 year old boy because he was upset and crying after being teased. We have schools where a teenage girl can be unexpectedly called up to the WWE big leagues and slammed to the ground hard by a man that probably outweighed her by twice her weight, and was at least twice her size.

    They're learning much earlier than 10 years old, and not by conversation. If you actually listened to what children are saying these days, you would find sad and frightened children wondering if they will be okay, wondering if the cops will shoot them, wondering if they will grow up with everyone hating them.

    Be a dick you say? Like that middle aged social worker, Charles Kinsey, taking care of an autistic kid having a bad day? Yeah, he was such a dick raising his hands up and calmly asking the police officer to not shoot him or the kid and that neither of them were a threat.

    He was still shot.

    Regardless of this particular man's belligerence, it is never a justifiable cause to subvert justice by fabricating charges against him. Under no circumstance is that anything other than those officers abjectly failing in their duties, failing their communities, and failing themselves. We trust them to act with integrity and allow them great powers against us, notably with firearms. You allow such behavior to exist and it foments situations like the movie with Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence where a pissed off arrogant sheriff contrived charges against them and put them away for life. While that is a movie, the number of people imprisoned that way isn't trivial, and the number of innocent men found on death row is far greater than zero.

    This. Cannot. Stand. We must be able to trust, and even revere, our law enforcement. Yet, all the way back, Chicago cops were shooting protestors in the back and taking moonlighting jobs as anti-union enforcers.

    Continue to support this heinous behavior and more people will die, both cops and civilians. Charlotte was the beginning as innocent people keep getting killed by cops, and in jails, on a weekly basis in our "great" country. Even more unfortunately it seems, we've transitioned to a daily basis. The last time 3 black men died in the space of week, you saw parity with the number of cops being assassinated.

    If that weren't enough, I can take it even further by speaking about the men and women that have died in jail simply due to thirst after having their water shut off .

    I would suggest you change your attitude and start holding law enforcement accountable for their inhumane practices, for one day they may be coming for you, and they'll be as typically humane as they are now.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 23 2016, @07:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 23 2016, @07:20PM (#405668)

    lel, commenting does nothing - men with guns do. Ergo, you lose.

    • (Score: 2) by edIII on Saturday September 24 2016, @01:30AM

      by edIII (791) on Saturday September 24 2016, @01:30AM (#405799)

      So might makes right?

      Enjoy the world you're supporting, and you better hope to all the gods that those men with guns and power find you amusing and are incentivized to not abuse you.

      As for losing, you can keep saying that. However, when 10,000 pissed off protestors finally lose it, smug police officers will need all the military hardware they can get just to survive. That hubris shows when military trained and abused civilians fall back on military training and start designating their own targets. That's happened twice, and the number of cops lost versus "domestic terrorists" made up for several other innocent civilians that were murdered.

      Make no mistake. We outnumber the cops. What keeps the cops safe from us is literally them doing their duty and us being appreciate and gracious for it. When they fail in their duty, and become nothing but corrupt thugs themselves that we rightly fear, then the people will react by taking out the thugs. When a good percentage of those people have received military training themselves, that's not a dice roll you want to start taking.

      You've rolled craps at least twice, assuming you're blindly for law enforcement like you appear to be ;)

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