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xchrom

(108,903 posts)
Fri Aug 15, 2014, 07:29 AM Aug 2014

Any American Can Take Any Police Officer's Photo

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/08/you-can-take-any-police-officers-photo/376064/

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Police in Ferguson, Missouri, arrested two reporters Wednesday night as protests over the police shooting of an unarmed teenager continued for the fifth day. The journalists, the Washington Post’s Wesley Lowery and the Huffington Post’s Ryan Reilly, were only detained for about 15 minutes before being released, but the incident provoked widespread outrage over the Ferguson police’s increasingly brutal tactics.

In a first-person account of the incident, Lowery wrote that armed officers stormed a McDonald's in which he and Reilly were working and demanded to see ID. They then told Lowery to stop video recording them, and finally they ordered the reporters to leave and claimed they weren’t leaving fast enough. According to other reports, the Ferguson police also demanded that an MSNBC camera man and a local Fox News crew take down their cameras. Police hit the crew of Al Jazeera America with tear gas and dismantled their gear.

In an editor’s note following the story about Lowery’s arrest, Washington Post editor Marty Baron wrote, “The physical risk to Wesley himself is obvious and outrageous.”

It was also illegal.
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FarPoint

(12,207 posts)
1. Will these arrogant asshole officers face any charges or consequences?
Fri Aug 15, 2014, 07:50 AM
Aug 2014

The Police Department knows who they are....this blayton disregard for enforcing and abiding by the laws they are paid to preform in the line of duty needs to be stopped. This arrogance runs rampant!

Gothmog

(143,998 posts)
2. The Police are going to get sued for this stupidity
Fri Aug 15, 2014, 08:05 AM
Aug 2014

The police should and will get sued for their stupidity

CrispyQ

(36,224 posts)
3. That does not look like a line of police officers, but rather military personnel.
Fri Aug 15, 2014, 08:32 PM
Aug 2014

I would not want this in my community.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
4. The thing I hate the most about their militarized uniforms is the masks. How can anyone hold them
Fri Aug 15, 2014, 09:54 PM
Aug 2014

accountable if you cannot tell who they are? That is also what makes them so scary. A criminal wears a mask.

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