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Originally Posted by mrklixx
Watch it again. He was walking toward the confrontation, and looked to be less than 10 feet from it.
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He wasn't in the way. It's a public area, and the cops have no right to tell us to leave it. The cops NEVER, EVER have the right to tell us not to take pictures of something that's happening in public.
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And what exactly was flashing his "credentials" supposed to accomplish?
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Agreed. I never flash my creds when the cops tell me to leave. My journalist credentials don't give me any more rights than those of you who are not journalists. If you wanted to grab a home video camera and start shooting right next to me, you have that right. You do not need to work for a media outlet in order to be allowed to take pictures in public.
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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.
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No, it hasn't been edited. That's raw tape. See, unlike most people with home video cameras, we generally stop recording when we know the video's gonna be crap. In the first cut, his camera moves about 15 or so feet. He didn't miss much of the action so he obviously ran there. He hit stop when he ran over there because he knew the video wouldn't be useable anyway. It's called editing in the camera, and it's to make the editor's job a lot easier for him. He's not hiding anything.
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So it seems pretty obvious that they weren't there to film the Journey cover band, and just "happened" upon this "brutal mutilation".
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What are you suggesting, that they set up the whole thing for fun? How'd they get NOPD in on it?
Seems to me that with all the mistakes the media makes, you'd have enough fodder to go after us without attacking a non-issue.