VIDEO: LAPD Riot Squad Tackles Occupy L.A. Photographer

freezing

unacceptable

Goran Novakovic

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Justice

Those pigs should be executed by a firing squad

pult du

This is why I stay far far away from these protests. I have a zero tolerance policy for police abuse of authority.I would resist and NEVER STOP RESISTING until I won or was dead/unconscious.its just that simple. Resisting arrest is NOT ILLEGAL.the arrest must be LAWFUL for the "resistance" to be illegal.I question the legality of the police even being their.it is your lawful DUTY to resist an unlawful arrest.we need ENOUGH people to also question it so we can COMPEL change in them by force.we need to STOP ASKING and START DEMANDING.

zungtoo

Sounds like a pretty good plan to me dude. Wow.invisi-surf.tk

TheAmericanCitizen

Why is it that this video and many other videos that recorded the police brutalizing the protesters have been taken off from you-tube and other outlets? LA Weekly, if you are also influenced by this police state and by the corrupted politicians that run this country then you like other media have no credibility. If the LAWeekly didn't remove the video then you have the obligation to inform your readers on the reasons for why it was removed and who forced you to remove it.

peterherz

its either our guys or George Soros.. both are corrupt.. but I'd prefer our guys.

William Russo

Since when is voicing your opinion being combative? This was complete lunacy on the cops as usual. Cop is the 1 that pushed him over the pipe on his ass, oh but thats perfectly ok?!! They tell him not to resist when they clearly drag him around 3-4 cops have him at this time.

Kizmiaz

I find it combative when they block public thoroughfares, when they impede traffic, when they unlawfully camp in areas where camping is not allowed, when they interfere with the daily business routine of people trying to earn a living, when they urinate and defecate in public, when they leave their trash laying around and when their assemblies consume tax payer funded resources such as the police and fire departments. Perhaps if they would remove their nose rings, not get tattoos all over their faces and necks, take a bath and dress in a somewhat respectful appearance they would stand a better chance of finding employment. However, the majority of these protestors have a totally worthless education background, such as degrees in history or English literature or the science of coffee making that costs as much as a medium priced house and thus are totally useless in today's workplace. I am part of the so called 99% and I am on target to retire early.

freezing

I find you combative but I'm not punching you in the head.

D-ARC

what's that old quote about socialism and temporarily embarrassed millionaires? Eh, whatever, I'm sure you're a real success story. I also like the jabs at people with tattoos and piercings, which bare no relevance to the topic at hand whatsoever.

Frederic Bastiat

The guy was a raging maniac, and got what he deserved.

The fact that a videographer is 5 feet from the action proves that this had nothing to do with suppression of the press.

Schmidt

Did you see the officer punch him in the head at around 2:50? He was photographing what was going on, as allowed by law. Regardless, cops should never punch someone they have already subdued. To have the attitude that anyone who appears to have disobeyed authorities in any way deserve unlimited and unregulated punishment as deemed appropriate by the officer is completely un-American.

Matthew Bradley

What exactly makes an assembly unlawful?

freezing

there is no law for that. That's how lawless our country has become.

AlexRegenerate

removed by user? or by the forces in power?

Lambert Strether

How does footage from a guy's cell get taken down by CBS? The guy didn't work for CBS, right? And he owned the cell? So what was the rationale?

Thomas

By which law that protects the democratic Rights, do the authority ban media they haven't approved off. Thomas

Weather@ 5...6...7..10 &11

"official media pool" = biased coverage. Just like "entrenched journalist's" = war is peace. Heard much about our 2 ongoing wars lately? Are they over? Did we win? Can we open up a McDonald's yet? Can't trust the mainstream media to honestly report the effect government and it's agents have upon the citizenry. What was once known as transparency-- and a point of pride among true journalists-- is now merely a choreographed collaboration, vile in the most Orwellian connotation-- unless of course a "breaking news" blow-job or extra-marital affair is involved.

Brandt Hardin

We are being subjected to a police state where protesting isnot being tolerated. These evictionsexemplify the suppression of our civil liberties including the right toorganize, one of the basis rights set forth by our founding fathers. Police brutality is running rampant underorders from Governors who have their pockets lined with Wall Street and SpecialInterest monies. Stand up and lend yourvoice with these free posters I was compelled to design on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot...

Frawsty

I don't like overly aggressive tactics, but it looks like the photographer was combative and resisting the police. He probably got hurt, but too bad. Nothing was mentioned about the photographer being a jerk in this blog entry, which is a good example of lousy journalism.

doctor

there's nothing 'jerky' about yelling at a cop after he throws you backwards through debris onto the concrete with that kind of force. even then, he didn't make a move at the cop, he was yelling with one hand holding his camera, and the other clenched at his side or pointing swiftly at the ground.. you're allowed to take the athletic stance and yell here in america. no laws against that. would i have advised him to leave after the mob was told that only 12 reporters were allowed to remain there? sure.. can i tell you that everyone heard the announcement? no idea..

meeet

It was probably hard to not be a jerk after the police just shoved him to the ground. It would have been worse journalism for him to just leave when the police told him to. The media is supposed to be a check on authority, and they are supposed to be exempt from consequences for doing their job. Lets not forget that

Frederic Bastiat

That the videographer is setup at this particular location, wreaks of setup. Also, interesting that the video starts at the shove, and not at what preceded the shove. Pathetic.

Pablopicasso

Lol, someone likes calling the victim of police brutality pathetic. Are rape victims pathetic as well, is it their fault they are raped? Are they asking for it?

24AheadDotCom

I got surrounded by six smaller cops while taking pictures at a 9/11 event several years ago. I showed them nothing was amiss and they let me go. While I shouldn't have showed them the pictures I was taking, I wasn't about to get into a physical fight with them like the idiot on the video.

Why aren't OWS leaders (very broadly defined to include sites like this) encouraging their followers to do things in smarter ways? The Occupiers could press the same agenda (to the extent that they have any sort of coherent agenda at all) using far more effective tactics. Yet, OWS leaders keep enabling idiotic tactics. Why is that?

While I'm sure most Occupiers are sincere, you have to wonder: is OWS just a setup to discredit attempts to keep the elites in check?

Rowmike86

weak. he was warned many times to step back. he should have complied with them instead of taunt them/lunge at towards them.

sex with donuts

"he was warned many times to step back" this is also not true. not sure what video you're watching.

Lambert Strether

Thanks for sharing your, er, concern.

aroseallyn

It's clear though the cops attacked first by pushing the photographer from behind so that he fell over some steps and hurt himself and that he stayed non-violent while they went ballistic. (Yelling isn't against the law, nor is asking why a cop did something.) There's a reason Villaraigosa staged this raid at night- the better to hide his trampling of the constitution. There goes freedom of the press and the right to peaceful assembly. Freedom of the press actually means that the press isn't restricted to "pools" but is allowed to freely and safely document stories as they happen, without police intimidation or threat to bodily harm. Anything less than that and we live in a police state.

sex with donuts

that's a lie

Yiperoo

Nope, I saw that from the beginning. The cops told him to leave, and he basically said that he's just photographing. he was looking at his camera when he got shoved after that.

Craig Mitchell

Funny how the video started right at the push. "Clearly" the cops started it. I'll bet the guy was baking them a pie before that.

Nigel Parry

It would have been good for the paragraphs that say Update to have times on them. Here's one example of how liveblogging is done in a way that lets you know the timeframe of things: http://www.thenation.com/blog/...