Another arrest for taking a picture in public!
Channel: brklynmd3
Date: 26/06/2011

In the past couple months we had Rochester Police arrest 
Emily Good in Her Front Lawn For Filming a Traffic Stop!
In this case the police officer, Mario Masic lied on his police
report to justify this arrest. 

video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5tubG1ASf8



Then we had Robert Wanek Arrested for filming in public!
This cop, Dustin Hill also lied on the police report !
The police report can be found on the FaceBook page of 
Robert Wanek and that link can be found right down below!

The only good so far that came out of this is that... Officer
Dustin Hill has been suspended without pay for the Illegal arrest
of Robert Wanek and required to take 40 hours in law enforcement
training, including constitutional law and rules of arrest.


video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GYdsDjNKJ8
Robert Wanek Facebook page with the police report.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Robert-Wanek/219332144744330

Those two video went viral and I hope everything works out for them
including a nice hefty law suit! I hope they get MILLIONS!!! 


Now we have another case in washington DC...

What we seem to have in this case is:

» The muzzling of someone covering a public hearing;

» Bald-faced lies by a public official;

» Complicity by Mayor Vince Gray's office in putting out the lies.

Pete Tucker showed up Wednesday to cover a public meeting of the D.C. Taxicab Commission. Tucker runs the website www.thefightback.org. He has advocated for independent cabbies and given voice to their opposition to a medallion system being considered by the city council.

As the meeting began, Tucker placed his recorder on the table in front of the commissioners, next to the microphones. Dena Reed, interim chairwoman of the commission, demanded he move it to another table. "This a public meeting," he says he told her.


Later in the meeting, Tucker took photos of Reed for his website. A cab inspector told him he couldn't take photos and blocked his shot. Someone -- my guess is Reed -- called the Park Police. At this point Jim Epstein, with Reason.tv, started shooting video. The clip shows cops telling Tucker to quit taking pictures.

"I'm a reporter," he says. "This is a public meeting."

They cuff him and escort him out. They arrest him and Epstein and put them in separate holding cells.



Tucker maintains he was taking still pictures. Reed said the exchange between Tucker and the police took place in the hallway. But video shows officers cuffing him right in front of her. She said the taxicab commission did not call for the police to intervene. So Tucker called the cops so they could arrest him?

Gray put out a press release Thursday saying he stands up for public meetings; Attorney General Irvin Nathan is investigating. But Reed might have shown the commission to be too rotten to exist.

"I knew the taxicab commission was already dysfunctional," Council Member Tommy Wells told me, "but this shows that it's dysfunctional even more."

Wells oversees the taxi business as chairman of the council's Committee on Public Works and Transportation.

"I don't know if the commission ever worked," he said. "Do we need one? I'm looking at an overhaul, and what happened the other day proves the need even more."

How about we start by letting reporters cover the meetings?



http://washingtonexaminer.com/local/dc/2011/06/dc-taxicab-commission-puts-itself-out-commission

http://www.mediaite.com/online/reporters-arrested-for-filming-public-meeting-of-d-c-s-taxicab-commission/

http://www.businessinsider.com/jim-epstein-pete-tucker-dc-reporter-arrested-for-recording-public-meeting-2011-6



Ok, lets see what happens here now. It is already known for a fact that there were lies going on.