I had to post this link.
Be sure to read Bert Krages’ Photographer’s Rights Guide.
Eric Kirk alerted me to it. Thanks!
I also want to draw your attention to Carlos Miller, at the bottom of the article. He’s a journalist who was beaten up by Miami police who didn’t want him taking pictures. They beat him down and his camera too. He’s been fighting a legal battle (they lied on their incident reports… *gasp* no! Really?) and Carlos asks for donations.
Believe me, you’ll feel a lot better if you told the FOP (Fraternal Order of Police) to stop calling and asking for donations, and spend that money instead on something good.
Like—supporting those who’ve been abused, harassed or otherwise wronged by the police.
I hadn’t known it before but the FOP has been accused of fraud. Apparently the FOP uses money from donations on themselves. They took advantage of 911 and obtained more than 15 million in donations. And more, here.
Good people, hey? I told them a long time ago to stop calling my house and begging for money. The next time I’m just going to flat out call them parasites.
Is that wrong?
Polly on 
Lucas on 
Steven on 
JUS – FIDUS – LIBERATUM
http://www.freemasonrywatch.org/true_blue.html
http://www.light1998.com/FOP.html
Thanks for sharing that. Have a gander at this:
http://books.google.com/books?id=3yyCKRB6EOQC&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17&dq=jus+fidus+liberatum+latin+means&source=bl&ots=rTD6nxuOGV&sig=SsKIA5QqMyJEO-W5TNr4LFYUKfg&hl=en&ei=3PvMSardKoK2sQOJjICoCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA19,M1
I hope it works. If so, check out pages 17 and 18.
Here’s something interesting one I found from light1988.com:
http://www.light1998.com/FOP/Albuquerque_Cops_Corruption/APD_officer_attacks_photographer/APD-photographer-scuffle.htm
I post it for two reasons: ppl need to be aware that these things happen routinely. (Yes, some commenter on some other site says we—America—do not have a police brutality problem.)
And two, I don’t think a cop should be able to charge you with “disobeying an officer” if his commands are NOT LEGAL.
That law, if it is one, needs to go. It only shows that you can and will get beaten down for disobeying even an unlawful command from an officer.
If an officer tells you to kill a Jew, you gonna do it? Sad to say but many ppl in this country would do it. That ninny who said police brutality doesn’t exist and that these are all isolated incidents would probably be one of the first to comply with illegal orders.
This brings me back to our conversation this morning, when we were checking out Carlos Miller’s site.
Well, Noble here has the unique ability to really simplify a situation.
Miller posted “Why cops fear cameras” and Noble said, “Because the cameras show what happened”.
It’s as simple as that.
http://www.light1998.com/FOP/Albuquerque_Cops_Corruption/Cop_in_Taped_Attack/Fired.htm
That guy was fired. They dropped the “charges” against the photographer. But no mention of charging the officer.
I guess cops have free coupons for violence, redeemable at any nonparticipating citizen.
I don’t know how it is in New Mexico, but in most states I’ve been in, the victim does not have to press charges in order for the police to arrest. This is true in cases where the cops witness a crime. If they witness it, they don’t need the victim’s consent to file charges.
Here, we have it on video, which turns the cops (and all of us) into eye-witnesses to his crime.
Firing him isn’t good enough. He needs to be charged. An ordinary citizen wouldn’t be given a free pass like that.
If cops EVER deserved their immune status in the courts, they’ve proven themselves to be unworthy, unreliable, willing and conscience liars unfit for the immunity the courts give to them (and to their “word”, which clearly isn’t reliable). Where, also, are the perjury charges against some of these cretins? For lying on the witness stand and for falsifying reports?