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Resistance See other Resistance Articles Title: Three examples of people who sued the police and won after civil rights violations http://www.examiner.com/la-county-libertarian-in-los-angeles/three-examples-of-people-who-sued-the-police-and-won-after-rights-violations By Martin Hill L.A. County Libertarian Examiner LibertyFight.com In this day and age of an ever increasing Orwellian police state, people ought to know that they can fight back. Legally, that is. When a police officer or government employee violates your rights under color of law, you should file an official complaint. The word 'official' is key here. If you do not file an actual official written complaint, then there is no record of it. Police will oftentimes try to intimidate complaintants and persuade people not to file an official complaint. You must assert your rights and persist in filing an official written complaints. In many cities, such as when I filed an official written complaint against a police detective a few years ago, the complaint will stay on the thug's record for a minimum of five years. Regardless of the outcome of the complaint, it will still stay on their record, but only if it's an official complaint. My complaint was about my God given right to film police officers in a public place without interference or attempted intimidation on the part of police. When Internal Affairs contacted me to see if I would come down to talk with them at police headquarters, I agreed. Since the interview was audio and video recorded by the department, I brought my own personal videorecorder too, set it up on a chair, and recorded the whole thing. I did not 'ask permission' to do this, because after all- the case itself was about my right to film. If they wanted to talk to me and record it, I was going to record them. Which is precisely what I did. I then posted it on youtube in 5 10-minute segments, and it can be viewed here. If police had dared to refuse to allow me to record a meeting which they themselves admitted to recording, I would not have spoken to them. In the interview, both investigators concede that it is my right to film police. The Police chief later sent me a letter thanking me for bringing up 'training issues'. In general, merely calling up the police department to gripe about your mistreatment does not suffice as an official complaint. In fact, doing so may probably garner nothing more than additional threats, smug replies, and high-fives among officers in the precinct. (such as the time when police in Miami shot a middle aged woman, an anti-war protestor in the head and then laughed about it later). I will briefly profile three cases in which the injured party asserted their rights, filed a complaint and sued the law enforcement agency who acted in a tyrannical manner. The first is the case of liberty activist Antonio Musumeci from New Jersey. Ironically, Musumeci was filming the arrest of another freedom activist when he himself got arrested. Julian Heicklen is an activist who was passing out information from the Fully Informed Jury Association (FIJA.org) in front of a federal courthouse. Law enforcement apparently doesn't like the 1st Amendment, so they have repeatedly harassed and arrested Heicklen. Musumeci's video footage of that day can be found on his blog here. Musumeci, who was pictured wearing a 'Ron paul Revolution' T-shirt in the newspaper, sued the Department of Homeland Security over the arrest, and was vindicated. The Department settled the case,... (article continues here) Martin Hill is a Catholic paleoconservative and civil rights advocate. His work has been featured on LewRockwell.com, WhatReallyHappened, Infowars, PrisonPlanet, Rense, National Motorists Association, and many others. You can view a full archive of his Examiner articles here.
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