Yep. Dumb on her part.

 

Still doesn't justify it.

 

Stopping and disobeying orders was dumb, obviously. I am just tired of the people that feel the need to videotape every random act to post on YouTube or Worldstar. Those two sites, intentional or not, have created more problems than anyone will admit.

 

And again, I'm done commenting on necessary use of force.

Stopping and disobeying orders was dumb, obviously. I am just tired of the people that feel the need to videotape every random act to post on YouTube or Worldstar. Those two sites, intentional or not, have created more problems than anyone will admit.

 

Well we can either assume that this was a "random" act that she decided to video tape, or there was a reason she decided to video tape (misconduct by the police). Since we can't tell from the video, which do we choose?

 

Well we can either assume that this was a "random" act that she decided to video tape, or there was a reason she decided to video tape (misconduct by the police). Since we can't tell from the video, which do we choose?

 

Since we can't tell, clearly the right choice is to just assume the police were wrong and this random person is right.

 

Sarcasm aside, another possibility is she perceived something as police misconduct that wasn't. She then inserted herself into a situation she didn't need to be involved in.

 

Did they ever tell her to stop recording?

 

Kinda hard to blame police for getting people to move out of the road away from them. Recently a Texas police officer was shot 4 times in a drive by style shooting while he was on a traffic stop with another person. The encouraging part of seeing that disturbing video was that the person he stopped and others driving stopped to help him.

Since we can't tell, clearly the right choice is to just assume the police were wrong and this random person is right.

 

Sarcasm aside, another possibility is she perceived something as police misconduct that wasn't. She then inserted herself into a situation she didn't need to be involved in.

 

Did they ever tell her to stop recording?

 

Kinda hard to blame police for getting people to move out of the road away from them. Recently a Texas police officer was shot 4 times in a drive by style shooting while he was on a traffic stop with another person. The encouraging part of seeing that disturbing video was that the person he stopped and others driving stopped to help him.

 

I don't have a problem with them wanting her out of the road. I'm not saying she should be able to post up there and just hang out in the street. But if what she did was indeed illegal, they could have issued her a citation before dragging her out of the car.

 

I don't have a problem with them wanting her out of the road. I'm not saying she should be able to post up there and just hang out in the street. But if what she did was indeed illegal, they could have issued her a citation before dragging her out of the car.

 

Like I said before. If the police order you out of the car, you get out of the car.

 

I might be mistaken and I'm sure any lawyer friends will correct me if I am...but I believe Pennsylvania v. Mimms covers that.

Like I said before. If the police order you out of the car, you get out of the car.

 

I might be mistaken and I'm sure any lawyer friends will correct me if I am...but I believe Pennsylvania v. Mimms covers that.

 

You're either missing my point, or just ignoring it.

 

Why did they have to go directly to pulling her out of the car? Why wasn't giving her a citation an option?

She doesn't have the right to block traffic just to record. She doesn't have the right to ignore lawful commands to move just to record.

 

I understand that. But, it's also a situation where you look at things on balance. The reason she was blocking the road was because she was taping something, something which she's alleged officers to have deleted and which she said she still has on the cloud, something that has led to an officer being accused of a crime.

 

In this situation, it's like saying that ER doctors who perform emergency surgeries should be ticketed for going 10 over when they've gotten a rush call to the hospital.

 

The DA wouldn't move forward with charges, most likely because the charge against her was just a pretext to try and punish her for recording (recording something that was allegedly deleted and which you'd think officers didn't want getting out, especially given the language they used calling her a dumb ______).

 

If it were really about blocking traffic and nothing else, then the DA would have most likely charged and we wouldn't be hearing a peep about this.

Well we can either assume that this was a "random" act that she decided to video tape, or there was a reason she decided to video tape (misconduct by the police). Since we can't tell from the video, which do we choose?

 

Considering she was driving and has no idea what transpired over the course of the entire arrest we have no other choice than to give the officers the benefit of the doubt for now. At least until there's other video, witness accounts and police testimony.

Considering she was driving and has no idea what transpired over the course of the entire arrest we have no other choice than to give the officers the benefit of the doubt for now. At least until there's other video, witness accounts and police testimony.

 

But we don't know how much of the arrest she saw...

You're either missing my point, or just ignoring it.

 

Why did they have to go directly to pulling her out of the car? Why wasn't giving her a citation an option?

 

If she moves on she gets nothing, right?

 

If she gets out of the car a citation may be next, right?

 

While I still don't know if dragging her out of the car is right or not, follow instructions and it doesn't happen. I hate how we lose sight of that so often anymore.

If she moves on she gets nothing, right?

 

If she gets out of the car a citation may be next, right?

 

While I still don't know if dragging her out of the car is right or not, follow instructions and it doesn't happen. I hate how we lose sight of that so often anymore.

 

"Move along, nothing to see here."

But we don't know how much of the arrest she saw...

 

It was at a night club and it looks like there should be plenty of witnesses. Do we know that she is up to speed on protocol for arresting someone charged with assaulting an officer?

"Move along, nothing to see here."

 

What about the dozens of people spilling out of the street from the nightclub?

 

Here's a solution. If you see the cops doing something you think is wrong and you want to videotape it, pull off the road.

 

You're either missing my point, or just ignoring it.

 

Why did they have to go directly to pulling her out of the car? Why wasn't giving her a citation an option?

 

Did they tell her to move? Did she move, or did she argue?

What about the dozens of people spilling out of the street from the nightclub?

 

Here's a solution. If you see the cops doing something you think is wrong and you want to videotape it, pull off the road.

 

If the issue was REALLY that she was causing a traffic problem, why have no chargers been filed against her, and the original charges dropped?