interesting video not quite sure what to
make of it but what you're about to see
is a woman recording a group of men
wearing tactical gear apparently in
South Gate California they appear to be
a group of police officers and a man who
has been identified by um a couple of
different sources as being a US Marshall
um does something interesting with her
phone check it out
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up sorry well hey I'm not no I'm not
laughing at I'm laughing at the
commentary that's all um yeah so this
occurred on April 19th and according to
the blog photography is not a crime that
man who actually smashed the phone was a
US Marshal I'm not sure how much that's
been corroborated definitely if you look
this up on the Internet lots of people
are reporting that but that seems to be
the way that people report the news
nowadays is someone said it it must be
true so um uh I'm reserving judgment on
whether or not he was a US Marshall but
regardless those were uniformed officers
and that happened now I'm not sure if
you know because I know nothing about
the legality of this situation is it
okay for a cop to do that actually it
shouldn't be uh okay for a cop to do
that because that's there's she wasn't
threatening them she wasn't uh creating
a problem she wasn't interfering with
their investigation and did you notice
how that that Marshall just sort of
acted very nonchalantly kind of
strolling by and then he went for her
camera and that that to me shows that he
was trying to trick her into thinking
that there's nothing going on while he
then goes after her phone possibly now I
am just going to play Devil's Advocate
not because I actually believe this but
I think it's important to say because of
the nature of that video and how it was
being recorded from across the street
you could really hear anything we don't
know what that woman was saying she her
mouth was moving the entire time so we
don't know what she was saying while she
was recording that we also don't know
what the cops were there for we don't
know if there were you know children in
a crime scene you know it's like we
don't know the cont can't see that there
was no perimeter that was there so she
was not outside or inside any kind of
perimeter and it doesn't appear and
again this is just the appearance of the
video it doesn't appear that she was
interfering with any kind of you do have
a right to film the police if you're out
on a public Street you are allowed to do
that you know there was a couple of
different Supreme Court rulings on that
and appeals court upheld that back in
2012 uh and in 2014 again um that's I
think what is an interesting aspect now
in our society in that in lots of these
local police shootings where we're
seeing police shoot unarmed men
especially we're finding that the only
evidence that exists is when someone
photographs the police doing this uh
this Behavior because for whatever
reason the dash cams aren't on they're
not wearing Camas yeah exactly and so
there's there's luckily some sort of
passer by yeah and and that's I think
I've seen that uh recently and on around
Twitter when people were saying hey if
you happen to see a police officer and
you're on a public Street very important
to know you must be on a public street
but if you happen to see a police
officer pull someone over go ahead and
whip out your cell phone and start
videotaping it because your videotape
may be the only evidence that remains if
something should happen because if you
turn on the camera afterwards then too
late yeah I mean I can see that I I
think that there's definitely enough
evidence right now to show that to some
extent it is your civic duty the same
way that if you see somebody who needs
help you know somebody who's stranded on
the street or or you if somebody asks
you can you call 911 for me I mean
that's something that you should do as
citizens of a community is to help the
people around you who need help and
unfortunately more often than we'd like
to admit you know these situations have
ended in tragedy and knowing that at
least there's a potential for
accountability there uh through document
you know video evidence I think it's
important to be able to um to provide
that now don't put yourself In Harm's
Way oh absolutely in order to do it and
also don't again don't break the law
like don't be you know shooting in a in
a private location or walking into a
don't interfere with anation you know
stay at a safe distance but you know it
is something that that speaks a lot I
think to the way that we're finally
addressing this issue of police
brutality and police and community
relations you know where so for so many
communities this has been an ongoing
irritant and ongoing problem that has
been happening for decades it's been
kind of swept under the rug to be honest
it's been hidden from View and only
because of the Advent of things like
YouTube
ofon how easy it is to file share even
in kind of more impoverished communities
now we're able to see that that
information is readily available and
hopefully we can put a stop to something
that like you said has been pervasive
for years yeah and also just shout out
to photography is not a crime.com they
do a very good job of following these
incidents where they are saying
photography on a public street
photography is not a crime and the guy
that runs it Carlos Miller he's actually
been attacked by police and had quite a
bit of uh of of negative attention
towards him so go support photography is
not a crime.com they're they're it's
just really an amazing idea the fact
that they're trying to Cate these ideas
this this this collection of evidence so
that people can understand that yes you
do have rights and it helps if there's
videotape to help support those rights