Police in Louisiana continued to reveal that gangster cop attitude that has become so visible in this country thanks to the advent of online videos.
It was only a few years ago that we were forced to take the word of police on the facts that lead up to an arrest.
Now we’re seeing a systematic thug-like attitude within the police ranks throughout almost every law enforcement agency in the country because more and more citizens are asserting their right to record in public.The latest case comes from Louisiana, as we can see in a Live Leak video that was posted 14 hours ago at this time although it is not clear when it was recorded nor when.
It shows that a man sitting in his own car at least 50 feet away from police officers during a traffic stop get arrested because he did nothing but video record.
The video is long but worth a watch because the citizen is very knowledgeable of his rights but he gets arrested anyway in a disturbing abuse of power.
There is a long lag until 8:15 after the initial encounter with police when police return to harass and eventually arrest him.
The man tells police he had a run-in with cops on Christmas Eve in which his rights were violated. He said he has video evidence of his innocence and will show it in court.
He said ever since that incident, he’s been pulling over and video recording traffic stops as a third-party witness, which we know police can’t stand.
It starts off with an officer with a flashlight walking up towards him accusing him of interfering with the investigation, threatening to confiscate his phone as “evidence.”
Then they tried to nab him for refusing to provide identification, even though he wasn’t driving nor was he doing anything that gave the cop a reasonable suspicion that he had committed a crime. He had also stated his full name which was Alexander John with what sounds like a Cajun surname that I don’t know how to spell based on his pronunciation (I’m sure someone will clarify this part).
But he ended up handing over the identification “under duress.”
They also threatened him with loitering.
Finally they just came out and demanded to know why he was recording, claiming that it unsettled them because he may know the suspect, asking him if he felt if he was a “self-appointed witness” to whatever investigation they were conducting.
When he said he was simply an activist, they arrested him, even going through the farce of reading him his rights.
Poster Comment:
Anyone have this pigs name address phone number?
