Are Oakland Riot Cops Taping over Their Name Badges?

[Tsiyu]

From reddit


http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/lyryo/currently_watching_the_oakland_livestream_cops/

I dont have it recorded or anything (maybe someone else does? happened between 2:45a-2:55 central time). But I definitely heard the guy say "oh, some of you have your badge numbers covered up! Look, I can see part of name...a few letters"

He was getting up close and videoing the officers, asking for the badge numbers/names. He started noticing some of them didn't have names/numbers, then he noticed some of them had them covered up with tape.

TL;DR - Riot police in Oakland had their names and badge numbers purposely covered up with pieces of tape.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Fuckers.

I want pictures, then I want prosecutions.

[Chan790]

2. If you can get ahold of this person...

tell them to contact their local newspapers, any of them...not merely to report on this violation, but also since they're clearly present and will probably remain-so to ask for a press-pass to work as a stringer to document evidence of this violation. We are all citizen journalists now.

Cops are reticent to mess with people showing a valid press-pass issued by a legitimate news organization and having one would allow them to take photographic evidence as well as provide an outlet for that evidence. I can't see many editors saying "no", it doesn't cost them anything until the stringer come back with something worth running and every editor loves an explosive breaking story that might get picked up and go national. It does however mean that the citizen-journalist will have to curb their own protest activities, their role become that of documenting and reporting the truth...further protest activities will present an air of bias that undermines their credibility.

[abq e streeter]

3. I was tear and pepper gassed by Oakland/Alameda County Police 40 years ago

Had their name plates covered then too....A new day, but same old illegal tactics.And they'll get away with it again too.