Cops Detain Innocent People for Hours [VIDEO]
copwatchoea.orgApril 21st, 2013 11am
Two MARTA police officers (Officers Jann and Huff) stopped 3 young men as they were leaving the Edgewood/Candler Park MARTA station. The cops stopped them, ordered them to sit on the ground, and then questioned them. Finding nothing suspicious, the 3 were allowed to leave. But within a few minutes, they were stopped again by more police. This time they were held for over 2 hours and interrogated by APD Officer C Jones about a supposed purse-snatching which had happened the previous day.
Officers claim that the young men all “fit the description”, even though the 3 looked very different from each other. An actual description was never provided. Initially the police claimed there was one suspect, but later they said they were looking for 3 people. Despite being held for hours, police did not seem to perform any investigation other than questioning the young men repeatedly, at times about completely unrelated matters.
Shortly after copwatch activists arrived, the 3 were released.
man i’m beat.
a guy got maced tonight during cop block. we got the aftermath of everything with the cops on video. i’ll spend some of my day tomorrow getting him and his girlfriend in touch with some lawyers form our legal team. besides that i think our presence deescalated a few traffic stops and maybe 2 pedestrian stops on 6th street. good stuff.
cops definitely did not like us filming. they called for back up twice. one of the bike cops recognized us from the police complaint department and was really “friendly” and totally condescending *as usual*. he said hi then told us to film up the street where all the “action” was…like as if we were really about believe that…or believe that he was actually trying to help us. you’re not even good at *pretending* to be nice dude!
thanks to all the people who recognized us and were showing support tonight. but y’all should help us cop block instead of just giving us high fives and fist bumps :)
also super big thanks to jimmy johns for housing us in their a/c, letting us charge our cameras/phones, and giving us tons of water.
we’ll be out again tomorrow :D
Louisiana Man Arrested Twice in One Month for Video Recording Cops
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Are we becoming a police state? Five things that have civil liberties advocates nervous
pbs.orgIts for PBS so you know it’s legit!
“1. Indefinite military detentions of U.S. citizens
2. Targeting U.S. citizens for killing
3. Arresting witnesses for recording police actions
4. Using GPS to track your every move
5. Surveillance drones spying on American soil”
What do you think?
