Watch This Cop Try to Destroy Video Evidence of Police Brutality
Last
year, students from the University of Massachusetts were celebrating
their annual pre-St. Patrick's day holiday known as "Blarney Blowout."
As you might expect, when thousands of kids gather to get drunk before
spring break and St. Patricks's day, they can get pretty rowdy. What
most people didn't expect at the time, was that the police would respond
with a cadre of riot cops to disperse the crowd.
A total of 73 people were arrested for disorderly conduct, violating liquor laws, and inciting a riot. However, there was one student among them who didn't appear to be doing any of those things. His "crime" was merely filming the police arrest one of the revelers. For this, he was knocked down, pepper sprayed, and arrested, which led to his suspension from the university.
Last
year, students from the University of Massachusetts were celebrating
their annual pre-St. Patrick's day holiday known as "Blarney Blowout."
As you might expect, when thousands of kids gather to get drunk before
spring break and St. Patricks's day, they can get pretty rowdy. What
most people didn't expect at the time, was that the police would respond
with a cadre of riot cops to disperse the crowd.A total of 73 people were arrested for disorderly conduct, violating liquor laws, and inciting a riot. However, there was one student among them who didn't appear to be doing any of those things. His "crime" was merely filming the police arrest one of the revelers. For this, he was knocked down, pepper sprayed, and arrested, which led to his suspension from the university.
What's
most chilling, is the fact that one of police officers attempted to
destroy the evidence of the encounter, by stomping on his cell phone.
Fortunately, the cell phone was protected by a shock resistant case, and
the video managed to survive.
After
being held for several hours, the student was eventually released and
relieved of all criminal charges, and after the video surfaced the
student was exonerated by the school board, on the grounds that:
“Defendants knew that it was wrong to stop a civilian from filming police officers in public when the civilian did not interfere with police activity.
Defendants knew that it was wrong to use force against a civilian for filming police officers in public when the civilian did not interfere with police activity.
Defendants knew that it was wrong to arrest a civilian for filming police officers in public when the civilian did not interfere with police activity.
Defendants knew that it was wrong to try to destroy a civilian’s phone merely because it contained video of police officers performing their duties in public.” the complaint asserts.
He is now suing the Amherst police officers
who illegally detained him, and the video will most likely be featured
prominently in court. It just goes to show you, every encounter with the
police should be filmed. It could be the only thing standing between
you and serious jail time.
Whereas everyone is someone's child and a molester is defined as "To disturb, interfere with, or annoy". All police are child molesters.
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