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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSt Louis reporter on Chris Hayes' All In just now: Police attacked Al Jazeera News crew
with tear gas and then launched a volley at her and her crew! (ETA: The second volley landed adjacent to the reporter inside someone's yard. Also, she is reporting that the PIGS were firing into people's fenced-in yards.)
Goddamned PIGS!
ETA: geomon666 has posted the video part of the attack on the Al Jazeera crew. I believe the voice in that video is the reporter from All In a few moments ago. She said that the crew scattered when the tear gas was first fired at them and the guy at the camera in the video below was attempting to point the camera at the ground before he left it there.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)geomon666
(7,512 posts)KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)She said riot cops pointed weapons in the direction of her news crew also.
She put her hands up.
gvstn
(2,805 posts)Hmm, pretty young woman reporter is fine. Al Jazeera's live feed is engulfed in tear gas and they are forced to flee the area.
This police response is just horrendous.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)existance of this video! I'm not 100% sure but I think that's her voicing the video.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)The Feds need to send in troops.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)reporter, however, was only adjacent to the second tear gas attack.
SunSeeker
(51,555 posts)Of course, either those at close can easily kill a person.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)KG
(28,751 posts)RKP5637
(67,108 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,656 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,361 posts)Thanks for the thread, ChisolmTrailDem.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,361 posts)PoutrageFatigue
(416 posts)Are the cops out of their minds? Do they not know that this behavior is recorded?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)and it becomes a circle of escalating violence.
Remember Oakland?
That is a city which is under Federal watch because the police are so dangerous to citizens.
As was?...is? New Orleans.
As was Detroit.
And yeah...they know it is being recorded which is why they are now attacking journalists, arresting journalists.
Guess they have forgotten Watts.
DocMac
(1,628 posts)that there are thousands of good marksmen in this land? And not with these lame MR-15's.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)judging from all the armor they are wearing and driving around in.
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)Lugnut
(9,791 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,656 posts)Coercion. Threats. Intimidation.
Power and Control.
merrily
(45,251 posts)A co-worker went home early one day to find a robber in her home.
He said he would have to tie her up before he left, so she would not be able to call the police before he got away. He actually apologized.
I wasn't born yesterday. I understand that not all criminals are like that, just as I understand that all police are not brutal or murderous. But how many times do juries give criminals a pass after watching videos of their crimes?
tblue37
(65,353 posts)because the whole point is to shut down reporting and images of their behavior.
gvstn
(2,805 posts)Thanks for the information.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)Between the "turn off your cameras" shout by the Ferguson paramilitary, the assault and arrest of WaPo and HuffPo journalists and the active dismantling of camera equipment, the message is clear: the Constitution is effectively "just a piece of paper", as Bush described it.
tblue37
(65,353 posts)attacking reporters, especially cameramen. This is an excerpt from "Rights in Conflict:
The violent confrontation of demonstrators and police in the parks and streets of Chicago during the week of the Democratic National Convention of 1968. A report submitted by Daniel Walker, [font color = "red"]director of the Chicago Study Team, to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence."[/font]
It was on these nights that the police violence against media representatives reached its peak. Much of it was plainly deliberate. A newsman was pulled aside Monday by a detective acquaintance of his who said: "The word is being passed to get newsmen." Individual newsmen were warned, "You take my picture tonight and I'm going to get you." Cries of "get the camera" preceded individual attacks on photographers.
<snip>
A network cameraman reports that on the same night:
I just saw this guy coming at me with his nightstick and I had the camera up. The tip of his stick hit me right in the mouth, then I put my tongue up and noticed my tooth was gone. I turned around then to try to leave and then this cop came up behind me with his stick and jabbed me in the back.
<snip>
And before anything else happened to me, I saw a man holding a Bell & Howell camera with big, wide letters on it, saying, 'CBS.' He apparently had been hit by a cop. And cops were standing around and there was blood streaming down his face. Another policeman was running after me and saying, "Get the fuck out of here." And I heard another guy scream, "Get their fucking cameras." And the next thing I know I was being hit on the head, and I think on the back, and I was just forced down on the ground at the corner of Division and Wells. If the intent was to discourage coverage, it was successful in at least one case. A photographer from a news magazine says that finally, "I just stopped shooting, because every time you push the flash, they look at you and they are screaming about, 'Get the fucking photographers and get the film.' "
<snip>
Out of the 300 newsmen assigned to cover the parks and streets of Chicago during convention week, more than 60 (about 20%) were involved in incidents resulting in injury to themselves, damage to their equipment, or to their arrest. Sixty-three newsmen were physically attacked by police: in 13 of these instances, photographic or recording equipment was intentionally damaged.
<snip>
They know "the whole world is watching," but they are hopped up on adrenaline, hatred, racism, and in perhaps too many cases, steroids. And of course, there is no guidance or control from the top to restrain them, nor is there any fear of consequences for their behavior. Why should they care if the whole world is watching if they are quite certain that it isn't going to matter?
AzDar
(14,023 posts)cui bono
(19,926 posts)Texasgal
(17,045 posts)I fear this is getting out of control! Holy SHIT!