>> I need your ID please so I could write
you a summons. >> What you are
about to see is peaceful protesters >> Will be willing to write me a summon.
>> Yes. >> Outstanding.
>> I need your ID also please sir. Okay, I'm not placing you under arrest
>> You're not placing me under arrest >> And a rogue cop who thinks they are
trespassing on public property. >> Come here
All right, Taser.
Got it. >> Okay, sir.
>> Go. >>
A second officer comes in, and like the first,
tries to tase a protester. >> He's under arrest.
>> For what? >>
Here's exactly
the moment this officer knew he aft up. >> For trespassing and for disorderly conduct.
When he's in front of the business, yelling to everybody-
>> You see this sign It says you wanna know why? Because cops like you.
>> He refused to give me his ID, which is required to do.
>> But why? >>
The veteran officer is about to set the rogue cop straight.
So I could issue a citation for trespassing. >> It is not trespassing.
>> They kicked him out of the property. >> Now, this is an issue, they're destroying
evidence, wiping off the audio on their body cameras, we'll get back to that later.
They talk it out and then because of course the video cuts out, however we have enough on video
to analyze the sitch and why this officer was in the wrong. The officer went on a
power trip while violating these protesters rights as Chris Dickey of Commerce City,
the man accused of trespassing is Joshua Candiotti-Wade.
When Dickey moved to arrest them he tripped, the lawsuit states that Candiotti-Wade ran because he
observed the anger in Dickey's eyes and worried that he could become the next news story
about an officer forcibly arresting and beating a citizen. His police commander Mark Morgan
arrived on the scene, Morgan question Dickey's actions in the pursuit.
He informed him that Candiotti-Wade had been standing on public property
and was protected by the First Amendment right to free speech.
Morgan also denied that Candiotti-Wade's actions qualified as disorderly conduct.
The more Dicky justified his actions, the more Morgan pushback. For context,
here is the exchange, the two had before they turned off the audio on their body cameras.
This has been a problem for many years with officers knowing accountability could lead
to suspension and or punishment, disabling parts or all of their mandated body cameras.
His actions resulted in a $175,000 settlement, let's remember, this does not come out of the
police department's budget nor out of the offending officers' pension.
It is paid for by the taxpayers, as Chuck D of Public Enemy once posted turning off a
body camera should come with an automatic charge of destroying evidence to which I
concur. in Baltimore, a grand jury indicted one officer on charges of misconduct and
fabricating evidence in connection with the body camera video that surfaced last year,
that the public defender's office said, showed him planting drugs.
Still in line to the Black Lives Matter movement, even with body cameras, police brutality has not
ceased. The officers, protected by the Unions, heavily pushed back on body cameras of men
when for example a victim's family demands its release, it appears that is not only a
point of contention, but completely up in the air if we ever see it in full.
The other side of the story, Chris Dickey has a troubling pattern on the force.
Per now there is news he has a history of five civilian complaints, including use of excessive
force during an arrest in which he tased and struck a man in a diabetic shock with a baton.
He also is accused Of excessive force on a veteran experiencing PTSD, the 46 year old vet
died shortly after Dickey's violent arrest, this man has been given way too many chances.
The real question is, why do the unions and fellow officers defend his actions and support
his tenure as a cop when the bad apple argument isn't even hiding rather sits in plain sight?