Saturday, February 11, 2012

Torture EPD Style

The Occupy At the courthouse spends a significant part of the time Watching the Watchers. We document the constant harassment of the demonstrators as well as the abuse of the poor. They arrested Katy for apparently nothing then assaulted me while I tried to film them torturing her. The supreme court has ruled that filming the police is protected but the Eureka Police don't seem to care about the law. I will be filing another in a series of complaints for abuse with EPD on Monday but we need calls to complain about this obvious abuse as well.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

If you call that an "assault" you're losing some credibility here. Looks to me like the officer wasn't preventing you from filming but rather directing you to move back to create a safe zone to deal with that obviously uncooperative woman and relocate her to the back of the police car... Without you being in the way and likely causing the lady to act out even more for the camera. Seems like common sense to me. If you're going to complain, pick something real to complain about- geez!

radmul said...

Look up the definition of assault. Look up the definition of torture. I have used both terms appropriately.

Anonymous said...

PC 240. "An assault is an unlawful attempt, coupled with a present ability, to commit a violent injury on the person of another."

So, the officer UNLAWFULLY attempted to commit a VIOLENT injury on your person?! Not what I saw in the video. And that woman was refusing to cooperate by throwing herself to the ground. Even I know they were only using a minimal pain compliance technique with those chucks to get her to her feet and walking without them risking blowing their backs out carrying her. Not saying the cops are always perfect but I'm not seeing it here.

janelle said...

The officer used threat of arrest to move James back to where he could not hear or record what was said to Katy. I think it is reasonable to say that James had a right to record what was going on. So the action of the officer to move him back so far was unlawful, especially in the case of James who has been filming police at very close range without interfering for three months. That the officer can use the threat of arrest instead of raising his fist does not make the threat any less grave.