Photography is Not a Crime

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• 1 Michaelk42 // Mar 8, 2010 at 3:29 AM

  Arresting the press like dumb thugs. Excellent decision there. I can’t really say I find it at all surprising, though.
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• 2 Adam // Mar 8, 2010 at 3:59 AM

  Where can we request/see a copy of the police report??

• 3 JR // Mar 8, 2010 at 7:07 AM

  People have lost the fight already. This is allowed to happen and it will keep happening more and more.

• 4 floraldeoderant // Mar 8, 2010 at 7:22 AM

  Darkest before dawn, or something. That’s not very comforting though, because it’s not even close to darkest– but there is a critical mass of police abuse, at which point the system has no choice but to collapse.

• 5 Shawn // Mar 8, 2010 at 9:15 AM

  So, they arrested him for no legitimate reason, and it was captured on video. I wonder how Johnny Law is going to spin this one.

• 6 Simon Jester // Mar 8, 2010 at 11:15 AM

  Simple: the police thought those cameras were guns.

• 7 Jody // Mar 8, 2010 at 12:03 PM

  Fucking filth, don’t they have anything better to do, like go eat a donut? Like I said before, one day one of these filth are going to find out they made a mistake, a crowd is going to turn on them and beat the shit out of them, if they are lucky, its coming. Although I don’t like violence these increasing incidents makes one wonder what is going to happen if the Nazi gestapo tactics of the filth keep increasing. The filth in this video are Nazis, plain and simple, brown shirt thugs wearing jack boots and people with cameras are the proverbial Jew.

• 8 Jody // Mar 8, 2010 at 12:07 PM

  One can hope there is a world wide economic crisis and we start from scratch, thats the only way forward I see aside from a violent revolution, which does nobody any good. Hopefully the dollar crashes, all levels of government go broke/tits up, these tossers lose their jobs and everyone reboots.

• 9 Matt // Mar 8, 2010 at 1:01 PM

  We really need to allow the right to resist back as legal. Then these bad arrests will not happen. If the police know that innocent people will fight back, maybe they will be less likely to do them.

  Now, what happens when police illegal arrest people like this? Nothing. Maybe the taxpayers (or the insurance company supported by the taxpayers) lose some money, but to the cops, nothing at all. They should be fired immediately, if not charged with assault.

• 10 Jody // Mar 8, 2010 at 4:16 PM

  Do cops in the US have soverign immunity like the politicians do? Sure seems like it. Does any lawsuit have to be civil or can you launch a criminal lawsuit?
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• 11 KBCraig // Mar 8, 2010 at 4:17 PM

  The first arrest on the video had me chuckling: “You must be THIS TALL —-> to ride this ride”

  …and I don’t think that officer measured up.

  

• 12 Johnny Law // Mar 8, 2010 at 5:04 PM

  *chuckle* Didn’t take long for the Nazi comment to come up did it?

  It’s obvious there had been a protest and the police were clearing the area. Since it was on university grounds I assume it got declared an illegal assembly. You can see the officers telling people to leave so it’s obvious what was going on.

  This “journalist” was not acting as a member of the press. He was walking all around the officers and trying to get involved in the arrests being made. I’m surprised the officers didn’t hook him up sooner.

  There is absolutely nothing on that video to warrant the types of comments made so far.
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• 13 Frank // Mar 8, 2010 at 6:00 PM

  You want this crap to end? Start prosecuting the pigs for kidnapping. The bonus is that a federal civil rights charge that includes kidnapping or attempted kidnapping is a death penalty case.

• 14 Jody // Mar 8, 2010 at 6:05 PM

  Just doing my job Johnny Law, just doing my job.
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• 15 Rail Car Fan // Mar 8, 2010 at 9:14 PM

  Did anyone here think “Johnny Law” would look at the situation any other way. As I’ve said before: in “Johnny Law’s” eyes the cops can never do anything wrong! After all.. they’re GOD’s and we’re just mortal beings.

  Rail Car Fan

• 16 akagoldfish // Mar 9, 2010 at 12:03 AM

  Sovereign immunity, and the exact strength of that immunity for police officers exits on a state by state basis. Generally, the south and much of the southwest have strong immunity laws, where as the midwest and east have limited or no immunity from civil lawsuits.

  I highly doubt Wisconsin has sovereign immunity, as they culturally have an extremely low tolerance for misconduct by public officials, be they police or politicians (a governor failing to report a Christmas gift worth a few hundred dollars was a major scandal there).

• 17 akagoldfish // Mar 9, 2010 at 12:09 AM

  I don’t want to watch the video since I can do without spiking my blood pressure (more than JL already did), but was this the Madison police or the UW cops?

  The Madison police are usually extremely proffessional and have a lot of experience dealing with disorderly crowds without reenacting the 1968 Chicago Police riot, where as the University police are well known as over-glorified security guards who like to throw their weight around.

  So if this was the Madison police, it would be surprising, while if it were the university police it would be completely expected.

• 18 Michaelk42 // Mar 9, 2010 at 7:16 AM

  Hey, someone finally found the Godwin entry and thinks they’re clever now. Eternal September indeed.

  Freelancers are members of the press. You don’t get to decide who “the press” is.
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• 19 Guy Freeman // Mar 11, 2010 at 8:12 AM

  Cameras are scarier than guns.
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