Miami Beach police take video camera at gunpoint ...

http://www.pixiq.com/article/MIami%20Beach%20Police%20Ordered%20Videographer%20At%20Gunpoint%20To%20Hand%20Over


Miami Beach Police Ordered Videographer At Gunpoint To Hand Over Phone
But video survived even after police tried to destroy phone
By Carlos Miller -... Topics News

Miami Beach police did their best to destroy a citizen video that shows them shooting a man to death in a hail of bullets Memorial Day.
First, police pointed their guns at the man who shot the video, according to a Miami Herald interview with the videographer.
Then they ordered the man and his girlfriend out the car and threw them down to the ground, yelling “you want to be fucking paparazzi?”
Then they snatched the cell phone from his hand and slammed it to the ground before stomping on it. Then they placed the smashed phone in the videographer's back pocket as he was laying down on the ground.

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And finally, they took him to a mobile command center where they snapped his photo and demanded the phone again, then took him to police headquarters where they conducted a recorded interview with him before releasing him.

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But what they didn’t know was that Narces Benoit had removed the SIM card and hid it in his mouth, which means the video survived.
Benoit showed the video to Miami Herald reporters on Thursday, who described it in their article.
The three-minute video captured on Narces Benoit’s HTC EVO phone begins as officers crowd around the east side of Herisse’s car with guns drawn. Roughly 15 seconds into the video, officers open fire.

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Shortly after the gunfire ends, an officer points at Benoit and police can be heard yelling for him to turn off the camera. The voices are muffled at times. The 35-year-old car stereo technician drops his hand with the camera and hurries back to his Ford Expedition parked further east on 13th Street.
The video ends as more officers are heard yelling expletives, telling the couple to turn the video off and get out of the car.
“They put guns to our heads and threw us on the ground,” Davis said.


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Do I need to be guessing about the pig that pulls me over for a tail light out?

It is drilled into us that cops must suspect everyone as potentially dangerous to them. We should assume the same of them.

formally known as Florida........

...better and more succinctly than I could have imagined. :thumbsup:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1235948">"If you're innocent, what have you got to hide?"

The videographer could own the town with a good attorney.