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Title: Take a picture in Miami, go to jail
Source:
Boing Boing
URL Source: http://www.boingboing.net/
Published: Mar 1, 2007
Author: Boing Boing
Post Date: 2007-03-01 21:08:04 by Zipporah
Keywords: None
Views: 150
Comments: 9
Miami police didn't want a photojournalist named Carlos Miller taking pictures of them, so they arrested him. Miller tried to explain he wasn’t, but he’d lost his negotiating leverage a few minutes back. He went down hard on one knee. The officers planted (Miller said slammed) his face into the concrete and twisted his wrists and arms behind him to the point of pain. “They were treating me like I was uncontrollable, a meth addict or something,” he said. “I tried to explain, but one of them said, ‘If you don’t shut up, I’m going to tase you.’” Miller, at last, shut up. Take a picture in Miami, go to jail
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Miller said that in the next instant, he was surrounded by the officers. One attempted to trip kick him to fall to the ground, but he was concerned about his expensive camera equipment, so he tried not to fall on his face. He heard one officer say “He’s resisting arrest!”
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#5. To: All (#0)
WTF is the infraction? Major cities like Miami have surveillance cameras all over the place. We're basically strip searched when we go to the airport, but a cop can't be exposed to the same level of scrutiny? This is pure bat guano.
cops (except for Jethro Tull) are jerks. sad to say. stay away from them. we're not going to win (until jesus returns).
Cops are thugs. They join up to put the beat down on people and enjoy their power trips. I despise all law enforcement outside of small town elected sheriffs and cops who live in the towns they patrol. "Professional" cops are nothing but a state sanctioned goon squad.
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