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Originally Posted by Charlatan
From what I could see, the officer asked the journalist and others to move on or back away. The journalist, still a good distance from the fracas, flashed his credentials. The cop then when ape-shit on him. Not justified.
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Watch it again. He was walking
toward the confrontation, and looked to be less than 10 feet from it. And what exactly was flashing his "credentials" supposed to accomplish?
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IF they have the footage they should show it. I didn't get the impression they had it. Rather, they came on the scene and started rolling.
As I said, it would be better if they had the footage. However, it doesn't change the fact that what we see is what happened. There is little that is subjective about the actual footage we've seen (ie no voice over, editing, lighting, etc. giving additional context or information).
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Again, if one views the
entire clip, one can see that it
is edited. There's a jump cut after the horse backs up, and another one right before Officer Fatty Smith comes barging in. And then it jumps straight to another person being arrested (again with no footage of what led up to the arrest), and then yet another police incident that gets cut off. So it seems pretty obvious that they weren't there to film the Journey cover band, and just "happened" upon this "brutal mutilation".