Reality_Check©
12-31-1969, 08:00 PM
"Doomsday Cultist" <bardic26657@mypacks.net> wrote in message
news:b4100d6d-2e1c-4a88-8506-64f7dd721636@34g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-08-02-video-NYPD_N.htm?csp=34
Amateur videos capture controversial NYPD actions
NEW YORK (AP) — In one week, three videos surfaced showing New York
City police officers whacking men with batons or, in one case,
violently knocking a protester off his bicycle in Times Square.
In the YouTube video shot last Friday, footage of the Critical Mass
bike ride appears to contradict a police officer's description of a
confrontation. The video shows the officer standing in the street as
bikes whiz past. He moves toward a cyclist and violently knocks him to
the ground in front of crowds of people.
Afterward, authorities filed a criminal complaint saying the biker,
Christopher Long, was arrested because he was obstructing traffic in
the heart of Times Square.
The complaint said Long, 29, deliberately steered his bicycle into the
officer, causing both of them to fall to the ground. He was charged
with attempted assault, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
Norman Siegel, a former director of the New York Civil Liberties Union
who represents Critical Mass riders, said that a decade ago,
conflicting reports usually went in favor of police, not civilians.
Juries and judges were almost always more likely to believe the
officer.
But video evidence can change that dynamic, Siegel said.
"I tell all the protest groups that go out public places to have
someone in their group with video camera," he said
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news:b4100d6d-2e1c-4a88-8506-64f7dd721636@34g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-08-02-video-NYPD_N.htm?csp=34
Amateur videos capture controversial NYPD actions
NEW YORK (AP) — In one week, three videos surfaced showing New York
City police officers whacking men with batons or, in one case,
violently knocking a protester off his bicycle in Times Square.
In the YouTube video shot last Friday, footage of the Critical Mass
bike ride appears to contradict a police officer's description of a
confrontation. The video shows the officer standing in the street as
bikes whiz past. He moves toward a cyclist and violently knocks him to
the ground in front of crowds of people.
Afterward, authorities filed a criminal complaint saying the biker,
Christopher Long, was arrested because he was obstructing traffic in
the heart of Times Square.
The complaint said Long, 29, deliberately steered his bicycle into the
officer, causing both of them to fall to the ground. He was charged
with attempted assault, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
Norman Siegel, a former director of the New York Civil Liberties Union
who represents Critical Mass riders, said that a decade ago,
conflicting reports usually went in favor of police, not civilians.
Juries and judges were almost always more likely to believe the
officer.
But video evidence can change that dynamic, Siegel said.
"I tell all the protest groups that go out public places to have
someone in their group with video camera," he said
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Pucker your lips for the Apocalypse!
Johnny Asia, Guitarist from the Future
http://music.download.com/johnnyasia
http://johnnyasia.net
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