The war on photographing police continues in Florida:
On Thursday, The Miami Herald spoke to the couple that saw the end of the 4 a.m. police chase on Collins Avenue, then watched and filmed from just a few feet away as a dozen officers fired their guns repeatedly into Raymond Herisse’s blue Hyundai. They say the only reason they were able to show the video to a reporter is because they hid a memory card after police allegedly pointed guns at their heads, threw them to the ground and smashed the cell phone that took the video.
To protect and serve…. Themselves.
UPDATE: Video of the shooting.
“Four innocent bystanders were injured in the shooting” [By Cops]
Cops shouldn’t be allowed to carry guns if that’s the best they can do.
No wonder they wanted to destroy the video.
Jackboots, black shirts, SS.
This is bad, really bad.
That video looked very much like the ambush and execution videos coming out of Iraq in the early days of the war. A vehicle ambushed, persons inside shot, and finally drugged out of the vehicle to be executed by firing swarm. Couple this with the intentional destruction of evidence, and I can not see the difference between the creatures who wore badges in that video and monsters of the last century.
Gotta agree with SG on this ome…
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Hey, a few bad apples in every bunch, which is why the offending officers were immediately terminated and walked out of the precinct holding a box of their personal belongings. Right?
Note that I’m not even contesting that the officers should get a trial of facts surrounding the incident that was recorded, which is the more serious of the allegations. I’m just suggesting they be fired for unprofessional conduct, which is such a minor administrative duty that it should be no problem to perform.
Um, do the cops even know that smashing a phone does not necessarily – or even likely – destroy the recorded video?
Reminds me of the good old days when cops smashed their way into a computer room with a search warrant armed with – crowbars! Ya know, to break open the computer and rescue all of that data!
Video that the cops tried to smash: