A Jonesboro, Arkansas man was arrested after filming police conduct a warrantless search of a woman’s vehicle and body who was his neighbor. Across the United States, police are adopting tactics not even seen in the worst Third World nations. Infowars.com has reviewed literally hundreds of videos which document the fact that police at routine traffic stops handcuff drivers with no probable cause and then search their cars and persons.
In a video making a stir on You Tube, an Arkansas man looks on in horror as officers handcuff an innocuous looking woman, and then conduct a TSA-style search of her breasts and other body parts before releasing her. The cameraman filming police across the street from his garage yells “Nazis,” continuing to warn the officers that they were violating the 4th Amendment.
Three police officers then march across the street, up the driveway and into the man’s garage to demand that he show his papers. They then begin to discuss what they’re going to charge him with: “disorderly conduct.” No, let’s charge him with “obstruction of justice.” The officers then decide to go with “racial slur.” They then grab the camera away from the man and clap on the cuffs. The camera is then turned off.
Here are just a few of the glaring issues that need to be addressed:
1. Why are police now routinely putting people in handcuffs, then conducting warrantless searches of their cars and bodies?
2. Even if calling police “Nazis” from your own yard offends some people, it is still protected speech under the First Amendment. Also, officers can’t just arrest you because their egos are bruised.
3. Europe and Canada have passed anti-free speech laws dubbed “hate speech” laws, but in the United States, ‘racial slurs’ are not illegal. On top of that, calling someone a “Nazi” is not a racial slur, it is a criticism of the fascistic policies of Adolf Hitler and his followers, and is a pejorative used in modern parlance for people engaged in tyrannical activity.
4. In the video posted above, we witness the police grasping at straws, looking for a reason to arrest the man; they even talk about his grass being too long, and that he’d better look out for the code enforcement bureaucracy.
Upon completion of this article, we learned that this incident took place 11 months ago and is just now garnering attention on the web. Below is the statement of the cameraman arrested in his own garage. First police clearly state on the video that they’re arresting him for a “racial slur,” but he was later booked on the charge of ‘felon in possession of a firearm,’ even though he was not a felon. The charge was dropped the next day.
Account from the man who was arrested sent to PrisonPlanet.com.
On Tuesday, August 17th 2010 at around 7:45pm I returned home to find one cop interrogating a woman who was apparently pulled over across from my driveway.
I got out my video camera to record the incident happening across the street from within my garage. I was leaning on the back of my car (in garage) to steady the picture and recorded for several minutes. Two more patrol cars, now totaling three, had arrived.
The lady was standing outside her car, looking quite distressed at the situation. Cops then begin to search her vehicle and then let her go. One of the officers asked if I was “enjoying myself” from the road. I told him “you are a Nazi”. He cupped an ear like he couldn’t hear me, so I said it louder, “you’re a Nazi”.
One officer then pointed at me and said, “Arrest him for interfering”. Even though their traffic stop was complete and the lady driver was back in her vehicle preparing to leave. The cops were also preparing to leave when I spoke this.
Then he and his cohorts came up my driveway and into my garage. I told them all to leave and that they were not welcome. I repeated it several ways such as, “you are trespassing”, “leave my property”, etc…
One of three officers asked for my ID and I stated that I was on my property and had committed no crime. He quickly became aggressive and intimidating… belligerently pointing “I am a cop. Here is my badge. Show me your ID, NOW!”
I asked what he would do if I refused and he said I would be arrested. I then produced my ID and continued to request they leave my property, assuring them I had no warrants and clean history.
The second officer went to his vehicle and upon his return barked that he would arrest me with “hate crime” or “racial slur” for calling him a Nazi. I pointed out that Nazi was a political party, not a race.
After calling in my credentials, Ptl. Ben Runnels told me to put my hands behind my back. I asked, “Am I being detained?”. Ben replied, “Put your hands behind you back.” I asked if I was being arrested and if so what charge. He said, “Yes, disorderly conduct”
I put my hands behind my back and turned around. Ben took the camera haphazardly and bound my hands.
After marching me down the driveway next to their vehicles, all three began sifting through my pockets and locking the cuffs. The camera was turned off sometime around here.
I asked them to let me close the garage and they said, “no, we’ll close it when we’re done here”.
The lady who was originally pulled over had then turned around back towards Airport Rd. (was facing away) and stopped next to the shake down taking place near where she was originally pulled over. She rolled her window down calmly said, “thank you” several times. After she departed, the cops laughed and said she was thanking the “tree” behind us.
They collected the possessions on my person and put me in their paddy wagon.
Next all three officers went back into my garage, rummaged through my car and found my dog Ike in the back seat. Ike happily jumped out and pee’d on the grass while the enforcers pointed tasers at him. Then one of the cops discovered the leash from the back seat of my car and put it around his neck, then lead him inside without entering himself.
Next, while I was watching from caged patrol card, they rummaged in the front seat and found one of my many legal firearms. This was all done with the excuse of trying to find the garage door button or opener. The button to the garage door was on the wall, directly behind him but they decided to violate my 4th amendment after kidnapping me for exercising my 1st.
I was informed after they found the garage door opener and closing the door that I would now be charged with “felon in possession of a firearm”. I said, “who’s a felon?” and they shut the door and took me to jail.
Since I was charged with a felony, court appearance would be required to issue a bond. This meant I needed to stay in the felony side of jail with rapists, pedophiles, and others until the next court date. The man I was locked in a small cell came onto me several times and was completely insane.
The next afternoon was court. Upon arriving I was informed the felony gun charge would not be pursued, but the misdemeanor of Disorderly Conduct would stick. They are keeping my camera which contains the evidence of their violations of my rights by suggesting it evidence of my “disorder” charge.
Luckily I was booked on Tuesday, since court is only on Wednesday. Had it been Thursday, I would be locked into the cell for an entire week… all for a bogus charge that was dropped.
Immediately after being released on misdemeanor bond and having spend nearly 24 hours in felony jail, the firearm was returned to my possession.
I can understand a cop getting irritated by being called a Nazi. But, it is quite ironic behavior for them to actually prove the guys point, right in his driveway, on camera. They haven't a clue, have they?
Best line: "You should be ashamed, both of you."
Please, someone tell me these guys now work the midnight security shift at Walmart and earn extra money mowing grass. Assholes.
"Your honor, I could only assume they were coming to kick my ass or, kill me, for calling them names. I fired 71 rounds in self-defense. I had just watched a youtube clip about just this kind of thing and genuinely feared for my life."
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?
Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?...
The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!
If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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in texas the only city ordinances that have effect of law upon the peoples are those based on legislature passed with enabling clause state law. city ordinances ie codes are nothing more than corporation bylaws and only have effect on those who are party to that corporation, employees and those contracted with said corporation. the peoples of the various States need to read their constitutions and learn just what does and when and what does not apply to them. my son received two tickets a couple days apart about two weeks ago for parking his truck in my yard, after the second ticket I put up Private Property and No Trespassing signs; the cop who wrote both tickets (or any of the other ten or so city cops) has not been back. maybe he called the phone number I put in the blank spot on the No Trespassing sign: 800-784-2433 which is a suicide prevention hotline number of suicide.org
the most factual thing ever posted by buckeroo I have no freaking' clue. buckeroo posted on 2010-07-24 21:33:00 ET
the departments thrive on those with low seventies with 70 even being grade A. we had a sign in one of the mine assembly building it said: Hire the handicapped, they are fun to watch!
the most factual thing ever posted by buckeroo I have no freaking' clue. buckeroo posted on 2010-07-24 21:33:00 ET
You identified them as NAZIs. They proved it. Case closed.
What, pray tell, did the poor woman do to incur their rath? Cell phone while driving? Eating McDonald's fries? Seatbelt? Broken tail light? Rolling right turn at a stop sign? Looking sideways at a thug?
I urge you to sue them in their individual capacity because they were clearly operating outside their official capacity. The taxpayers should not be penalized for their obvious criminal actions.
Please let me know the specifics and I will find out if they had the proper oaths on file. Their offices may have been technically "vacant" at the time they demanded to "see your papers".
Tell me, did they make you wear a yellow star to court?
Watch it again and notice how one officer gets a little tit action. Boy, did that look professional. Well, at least he didn't do a panty check. I wonder if the officer's wife has seen the fondle clip. hmmmm
Ok, I have an idea. We secretly place gps tracking devices on each squad car. Key individuals, around the community, monitor these vehicles and every time an officer stops for more than twenty seconds, they are flagged and a militia unit is sent to watch, cameras rolling. Any infraction is dealt with instantly by the use of an anonymous, fellow cop-watcher with a high-powered tranquilizer dart gun positioned striking distance away.
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Cops need to be tested for steroids - these guys make Barry Bonds look clean.
They're on all kinds of stuff, and it's not like their minds were A-game brains to begin with, there's not a whole lot of latitude here in terms of preventing dumb to dumber as a result of the mental damage that gets done via the use of man-ego drugs.
Given that they intentionally exclude anyone with too high an I.Q. some of this stands to reason. Just as with the TSA they do not want intelligent people. Intelligent people ask questions and will not swallow bullshit answers to those questions. They are also good at spotting corruption. That last makes politicians nervous.
"“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha
The cop unions argue that the IQ issue is overblown and in reality, these guys are plenty sharp.
Hey, our hero spent a week in jail and traded facing charges for a promise not to sue. Think that one thru. These cops and robbers are smart, don't kid yourself.
The IQ issue keeps the easily bored out of the program. Most cops are perfectly happy working the streets in a prison grid. You become a bully among bullies, protected by other bullies and ordered around by criminals.
Besides, criminals shun competition from high IQ recruits.
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The cop unions argue that the IQ issue is overblown and in reality, these guys are plenty sharp.
Mostly I don't think they pick stupid people, but they want people who are bright enough to do the job but not bright enough to start figuring things out. So, from what I've seen and read, and this is just my own surmise, is that anything up to about 120 is OK (90-110 is considered the normal range - most criminals score in the low normal or slightly below range). However anything above 120 is excluded from copdom. I don't think it is because they get bored either. It is simply that the higher the I.Q. the more people are aware of. They are more observant and they get more out of what they see. Criminal politicians are made nervous by that.
"“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha
It is simply that the higher the I.Q. the more people are aware of. They are more observant and they get more out of what they see. Criminal politicians are made nervous by that.
If congress, and most of this regime were tested, I'd bet that they'd score in the 95-105 range.
We are not ruled by the very, very, bright.
Somewhere in Kenya, a village is still missing its idiot.
"“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha
This is the face book page of Larry Crompton. He was taking part of a round-up of people near the University of Oregon Campus a few days before 'Family Day,' when alums and parents come to campus and the UO makes donation money a few years ago.
I was working copwattch and another copwatch volunteer was in Larry's face demanding his badge nubmer and name.
I know what a evil little prick Larry is, so as I passed I leaned in to my friend and said, "That is Laurence Cropton, and I would get away from hiom."
Lumpy (my own term of endearment for the bastard) came screaming over to me and told me I had stepped on a piece of the Eugene Flower Home business at E 13th and Kincaid St. and my bike was grabbed and I was handcuffed.
I fell to the sidewalk into a non-violent resistence mode. First they tried to guilt trip me saing how I could be the cause of a cop hurting his or her back carrying me to the car.
My friend started videotaping, so Lumpy got his camera out too. He was full of red faced bluff and bluster as he proudly chortled how he could make me stand up with the lift bt my nostril pain complience mmove.
What he did do was get down close to my head and started to blow in my ear trying to get me to start struggling and angry so he could stick me with more charges.
IU said, "Oh baby, you are an ugly, diesease little snake of a bastard, but.. but... I'm feeling a motion" as I smiled and glanced at a specific part of my body back to him smiling sarcastically.
They used pain complience to get me in the car and I was charged with criminal trespass. He of course claims to this day he did not do that. And his video of the scene dissapeared.
As most of those trespass cases of those three days, they were upheld in mimiciple court and overturned in Circuit Court where they were re-tried on appeal.
It was a fun night in the jail for me as usual as they always put non-complant me in medical isolation where I get a suicide (unripable) blanket and the green suit.
He has been promoted to sergeant a few months ago I renewed my concern to his superiors about him being in a leadership position.
He is a jerk, and I have never shut up about my anger and resentment over his treatment of me. I am well known to be non-violent and able to turn situations around on them, so they somewhat put up with this and other things I complain about concernign them. At least so far. ;-D
I would never wish Lumpy here any bad fortune, but I'm always happy to give him the publicity he deserves as a bad cop.
"The United States today is like a cruise ship on the Niagara River upstream of the most spectacular falls in North America. A few people on board have begun to pick up a slight hiss in the background, to observe a faint haze of mist in the air or on their glasses, to note that the river current seems to be running slightly faster. But no one yet seems to have realized that it is almost too late to head for shore." -- Historian and author Chalmers Johnson"
I'm fortunate in that I have never had a bad run in. My only recent experience was getting stopped and checked walking home late at night. Some strange dog ran up to me and the cop used that as an excuse to "verify it wasn't my dog and I wasn't breaking the leash law". Lame.
"“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha
Typical. I have the dubious fortune of being a major news story when I nearly died doing a tree sit. I gave the cop Sean McGann credit for getting the security to back off and to pull back the construction fence under me before I fell credit for his clear thinking and focus in returning the goal at the scene to keep me from falling, which unfortunately I did anyway.
I don't exagerate or lie to cause them trouble. So it usually is at a balance where I don't want to talk to them, and they consider it a real pain in the ass experience to deal with me.
Once for example a while back I walked by four of them in front of the public library and said, "I hope you boys are staying out of trouble." The fellow employee of Food For Lane County walking with me was agasp.
All that happened was one said, "Yep, we sure are." Mutually exchanges of tongue in cheek sarcasm works. And this is here only where I can somewhat get away with this. In say Portland where they don't know me nearly as well, I 'mind' a wee bit differently. Po po is generally more aggro then Eugene P. D. and I have no interest in going to a jail up there at all.
"The United States today is like a cruise ship on the Niagara River upstream of the most spectacular falls in North America. A few people on board have begun to pick up a slight hiss in the background, to observe a faint haze of mist in the air or on their glasses, to note that the river current seems to be running slightly faster. But no one yet seems to have realized that it is almost too late to head for shore." -- Historian and author Chalmers Johnson"
I wanted to let the guy who posted the video about the cops busting him for videotaping them, that I was involved in a similar experience. It made mainstream news because it involved Obama and it was filmed in Honolulu while he was on vacation there. I posted it on my YouTube page too but it has also been removed by the "Hearst Foundation." www.sherrikane.com/SherriKane. com/VideoNews.html Speaking of nazi's, Hearst was a real supporter of the nazi party. I was able to find the actual video online but not on You Tube, but here: www.kitv.com/r/26327764/detail.html