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Young Skateboarders and Police Officers

(posted by marie)

In my search for videos that’ll make you squirm I have come across a plethora of video posts on the interactions of skater kids and the police. Many skaters film their skate sessions in order to know what tricks they need to work on so cameras are always on hand ready to shoot any action. I was shocked by how these 13 year olds were treated by the police when they were accused of breaking the law.

This entry was posted on Saturday, April 26th, 2008 at 12:36 pm

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5 Responses to “Young Skateboarders and Police Officers”

  1. Dan Says:
    April 26th, 2008 at 2:44 pm

    A follow-up on the Baltimore video:

    http://tinyurl.com/2uo9m4

    A Baltimore police officer was suspended yesterday after a YouTube video surfaced on the Internet showing him berating and manhandling a teenage skateboarder at the Inner Harbor.

    Clearly the best part is where that video cuts out, with Officer Rivieri saying, “You got that camera on? If I find myself on Y–”

  2. Kevin Carson Says:
    April 26th, 2008 at 9:57 pm

    I’m surprised there aren’t more incidents of cops harassing or brutalizing eyewitnesses who are observed to have cameras. I’m also surprised there aren’t unidentified fellow cops “unofficially” harassing those involved in posting the video. The kind of anonymous threats anti-cop bloggers and news sites get from the police community make the stalking by Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler and LGF readers look pretty tame.

    Then there are the attempts to make filming the police illegal in a formal sense (like arresting Copwatch members for “interfering with police work” when they were clearly on the sidelines and behaving in a non-disruptive manner).

    Aren’t cops the ones normally always telling us “if you’ve done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear”? Funny, then, that they react like a bunch of cockroaches when the kitchen light is turned on.

  3. Dain Says:
    April 27th, 2008 at 2:46 pm

    Kevin,

    Is “LGF” Little Green Footballs? Presumably they are harrassed by Islamic extremists?

    These cops have watched too much Maury Povich.

    I’m disappointed by all the bystanders. Only one I heard clearly chime in, to criticize a kid for running away from the cops. I supposed it could have been a helpful tip to save the kid from worse punishment, but I doubt it.

  4. Eric H Says:
    April 27th, 2008 at 8:55 pm

    Then there are the attempts to make filming the police illegal in a formal sense (like arresting Copwatch members for “interfering with police work” when they were clearly on the sidelines and behaving in a non-disruptive manner).

    Hmm, good point. Maybe O’Reilly should make this his next crusade: state legislation to ban municipalities from banning non-interfering videographers. That kid in Baltimore, his name was Eric? Bill can call it Eric’s Law.

    Aren’t cops the ones normally always telling us …

    Normally? I don’t know about you, but I generally give Johnny Law a wide berth. They don’t normally tell me anything if I can help it. ;~)

  5. Kevin Carson Says:
    April 28th, 2008 at 1:59 am

    Dain,

    Yeah, LGF is Little Green Footballs. Either their or the Rottweiler’s readers were doing whois searches to find the street addresses and phones of antiwar bloggers–and then posting maps of how to get to their house from nearby military bases, coupled with very vivid threats.

    Eric,

    That doesnt’ sound like O’R’s bag. Given his track record of whining about “scumbag” bloggers, and “crazy websites” that are “allowed to say anything they want,” he would probably support the criminalization. I remember he once defended the right of cops to harass people they “knew” were guilty–but apparently not guilty enough to convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt, if the cops had to resort to extralegal persecution.

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