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Recordings Provide Vital Evidence of Police Abuses

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I originally posted the following video and commentary onto my Facebook wall…

Police Blow Mans Door Off During Raid:

My Commentary: Without a camera, he would have been just another statistic – an abductee, imprisoned for years….

Police Have Zero Right to Intimidate, Nor to Arrest, Members of the Public Who Are Simply Recording Them

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The following debate originally took place upon my Facebook wall…

Rayn: Arkansas State Representative Arrested for Recording Police:

Greg C.: You can watch from across the street but you can’t push up on police doing their jobs. We can’t second guess police officers from doing their jobs. We can demand that they be held liable for their actions if they break the law.

Rayn: Just “doing their job”… Sure… And, so were the Nazis…

"Just. Doing. [Their}. Job."

“Just. Doing. [Their]. Job.”

The Arkansas State representative, Mr. John Walker, who was originally recording the police encounter from across the street, was approached by two officers, who then engaged in the federal crime of “witness tampering,” by harassing, intimidating, attempting to use corrupt persuasion, and engaging in misleading conduct, in order to pressure Mr. Walker into ceasing his ac of publicly recording. The officers claimed that Mr. Walker was video recording the police encounter to “provoke” officers, and also claimed Mr. Walker to be a “race baiter.” And, even as the police officers originally stated to Mr. Walker that there were two men being detained, before walking away from him, they admitted that anyone inside of the pulled-over car wasn’t visible, because the windows were darkened.

Meanwhile, when Mr. Walker came closer to the scene, it quickly become apparent that he only did so in order to film the faces of the two men from the car that were being detained by police, as one was still inside the car, and unable to be seen from his original vantage point – even by police admission. With this action, he was then FALSELY arrested under the ludicrous charge of “obstruction of a governmental operation.” Yet, according to law, “a person is guilty of obstructing governmental operations when he intentionally obstructs, impairs or hinders the performance of a governmental function by using or threatening to use violence, force or physical interference.” Mr. Walker did not, IN ANY WAY, physically interfere with the activities of the officers. He didn’t touch them, nor did he come between them and the car they were surrounding, nor did he come between them and the two men from the car that they were detaining. He certainly didn’t “PUSH UP” on the officers, by ANY definition of the term. (Click Here to Continue Reading This Post) →