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Originally posted by Kitilani
reply to post by SavedOne
The order she was given was not lawful to begin with. What if he had "ordered" her to perform a sexual favor? The cop has to give his orders within the law too. If he was so worried about the perp he had in handcuffs and being held by other cops, why did he go free?
Originally posted by Kitilani
reply to post by SavedOne
The order she was given was not lawful to begin with. What if he had "ordered" her to perform a sexual favor? The cop has to give his orders within the law too. If he was so worried about the perp he had in handcuffs and being held by other cops, why did he go free?
Originally posted by Aleister
The cop seemed sane and semi-nice, it's just that he doesn't understand the country of America and its constitution. Even if the Supreme Court would side with the cops on this, they would be wrong, as are many court decisions which ignore the constitution. This woman seemed upset, which is kind of natural with a first arrest (if it is her first arrest) but she made her stand and it was an honorable one.
Originally posted by Acidtastic
yay, more police abusing laws ment for terrorists. Lets not forget, if you are against the abuse which the police inflict on the people, then you are a terrorist!!
It is NOT against the law to film the police (so long as you are not in their way at all) It does not make you a terrorist. But the police will wrongfully use anti terror laws against every citizen, becasue they think they can. And aslong as they get away with it, they can. The scum that they are.
Originally posted by Xcathdra
Originally posted by Kitilani
reply to post by SavedOne
The order she was given was not lawful to begin with. What if he had "ordered" her to perform a sexual favor? The cop has to give his orders within the law too. If he was so worried about the perp he had in handcuffs and being held by other cops, why did he go free?
how was the order not lawful?
Originally posted by SavedOne
Originally posted by anon72
What the hell is our country come to? Honestly? You can't videotape a police officer doing his job from your own front yard? WHY?
Clearly if you watch the video she did NOT get arrested for videotaping. That in fact had nothing to do with her arrest. She was arrested for deliberately disobeying a police officer. He warned her several times to go into her house and she refused. He clearly warned her several more times that if she refused she was risking going to jail and she STILL refused. He finally arrested her for willful disobedience (NOT for videotaping). Here's the deal, the police officer is trying to arrest a perp and someone is standing behind him in the dark holding an object that is pointed in his direction. OF COURSE he felt unsafe because of that. THAT is why he asked her to go indoors, if you doubt that then just listen to the clip again because that is exactly what he said he was concerned about. The woman was a complete idiot and deserved to be hauled downtown. She could have videotaped from inside her house, but nooooo.
Originally posted by Zanti Misfit
Your Rights as a U.S. Citizen Against Unlawful Arrest ..........
“Citizens may resist Unlawful arrest to the point of taking an officer’s life if necessary.” Plummer v. State, 136 Ind. 306. This premise was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case: John Bad Elk v. U.S., 177 U.S., 529. The court stated: “Where the officer is killed in the course of the disorder which naturally accompanies an attempted arrest that is resisted, the law looks with very different eyes upon the transaction, when the officer had the right to make the arrest, from what it does if the officer had no right. What may be murder in the first case might be nothing more than manslaughter in the other, or the facts might show that no offense was commited.”
“An arrest made with a defective warrant, or one issued without affidavit, or one that fails to allege a crime is within within jurisdiction, and one who is being arrested, may resist arrest and break away. If the arresting officer is killed by one who is so resisting, the killing will be no more than an involuntary manslaughter.” Housh V. People, 75 111. 491; reaffirmed and quoted in State v. Leach, 7 Conn. 452; State v. Gleason, 32 Kan. 245; Ballard v. State, 43 Ohio 349; State v. Spaulding, 34 Minn. 3621.
“When a person, being without fault, is in a place where he has a right to be, is violently assaulted, he may, without retreating, repel by force, and if, in the exercise of his right of self defense, his assailant is killed, he is justified.” Runyan v. State, 57 Ind. 80; Miller v. State, 74 Ind. 1.
“These principles apply as well to an officer attempting to make an arrest, who abuses his authority and transcends the bounds thereof by the use of unnecessary force and violence, as they do to a private individual who unlawfully uses such force and violence.” Jones v. State, 26 Tex. App. 1; Beaverts v. State, 4 Tex. App. 1 75; Skidmore v. State, 43 Tex. 93, 903.
“An illegal arrest is an assault and battery. The person so attempted to be restrained of his liberty has the same right to use force in defending himself as he would in repelling any other assault and battery.” State v. Robinson, 145 ME. 77, 72 ATL. 260.
“Each Person has the right to resist an unlawful arrest. In such a case, ther person attempting the arrest stands in the position of a wrongdoer and may be resisted by the use of force, as in self defense.” State v. Mobley, 240 N.C. 476, 83 S.E. 2d 100.
“One may come to the aid of another being unlawfully arrested, just as he may where one is being assaulted, molested, raped or kidnapped. Thus it is not an offense to liberate one from the unlawful custody of an officer, even though he may have submitted to such custody, without resistance.” Adams v. State, 121 Ga. 16, 48 S.E. 910.
“The carrying of arms in a quiet, peaceable, and orderly manner, concealed on or about the person, is not a breach of the peace. Nor does such an act of itself, lead to a breach of the peace.”
Wharton’s Criminal and Civil Procedure, 12th Ed., Vol. 2: Judy v. Lashley, 5 W. Va. 628, 41 S.E. 197.
I am sure some Police Officers in this Country are Unaware about these Court Decisions when Overstepping their Authority . People who know the Law should Remind them about it from Time to Time for the sake of their Own Safety . The Woman in this Video was Intimidated by that Police Officer because she was just Not Aware of her Rights and Cow Downed to his Intimidation of her Ignorance . She should take this matter to a Lawyer Immediately and press charges against him IMO .
Originally posted by kro32
So if your out to dinner with your wife or girlfriend and the guy at the table next to you pulls out a video camera and starts taping you two how are you gonna take it.
You gonna clap him on the back and say "yep that's your 4th amendment right, keep it up" or are you gonna get angry about it?
Originally posted by EmeraldGreen
some of you are so shallow and conceited
Put yourself in that uniform if you have the ability to empathise for the length of this text...
Originally posted by EmeraldGreenthis is almost a petty as a domestic dispute, no one was injured no one was traumatised
Originally posted by stevooo
reply to post by confreak
its not gonna last man. its only a matter of time before this broken system breaks down. this day and age there is no way it would be replaced with a more oppresive system than what is out there today.