22 April 2015 SFPD Detainment and Forceful Medical Restraint at SFO
Channel: Citizen News Journal
Date: 2015-04-24

On 22 April 2015 SFPD detained and, with the help of paramedics, forcefully restrained a Spanish speaking US passport holder at San Francisco International Airport (SFO).  During her detainment she was pleading with the crowd of on-lookers that she was a Latina and Spanish speaking US citizen and being detained and barred from flying.  Several in the crowd of onlookers told her to be quiet.  When paramedics first arrived she vehemently refused their assistance.  First an airport employee, then a passenger attempted to disrupt the videographer from documenting the event.  She was eventually forcefully restrained on a paramedic stretcher and removed from the scene.  Filming begins when paramedics arrive.

00:27 - airport employee directs cameraman to stop filming, cameraman responds with "I'm in a public place".  Employee then attempts to block view of scene.

00:44 - airport employee informs SFPD that cameraman is filming, officer does nothing

1:01 - passenger attempts to block filming, conversation ensues

1:55 - passenger instructs airline crew to "close to the doors so he can't get on," airport crew laughs

2:19 - police and paramedics forcefully restrain woman and strap her to the stretcher

2:24 - airline crew instructs videographer that there are still several minutes before boarding and he doesn't need to get on yet

2:28 - videographer explains his position to the airline crew

2:35 - airline crew explains, "What I don't like is that the carrier that she was supposed to be on just walked away without a representative."

3:33 - another airline passenger asks, "Why are you filming this?"  Cameraman answers, "to provide a third-party objective viewpoint in case something happens."

4:57 - woman is wheeled away in stretcher