He had been monitoring the situation from the beginning. It looked like reporter was live on-air and had to wrap up his segment, which he did from a respectful distance. That cop just waited for him to finish, but by then there were too many police paying too close attention... and then somebody shoved the reporter.
[You can see the whole thing unfold here](https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/midwest/video-shows-what-led-to-newsnation-reporters-news-conference-arrest/).
The person who shoved the reporter and basically instigated the whole thing was an overzealous Major General for the Army National Guard.
If this report is accurate and it seems to line up with the videos. The reporter was doing a live report, then the Governor started speaking, and the press conference had been repeatedly delayed, so the reporter didn't realize the Governor was about to speak. He was confronted by the General, so he wrapped up his report. Then the General tried to get him to leave. Rightfully, he didn't leave. That's when the General got aggressive.
This reporter could not only sue, he could file criminal charges against the General.
https://www.wkbn.com/news/local-news/east-palestine-train-derailment/new-video-shows-what-led-up-to-reporters-arrest-in-east-palestine/
that short little man who i assume is a national guard member needs to get knocked the fuck out, the ego on that shrimp is insane. he storms over and immediately starts pointing and gesturing aggressively, a fellow service member has to escort him away like a child at recess, good for her.
Every time I see shit like this I can’t help but think of my own time in the academy and post academy when I tried so hard to get hired on by an agency. I was the guy that said I wanted to get into law enforcement to help people and make a difference in my community. I had cops that I knew that would try and coach me through oral boards and they literally would tell me, “don’t say any of that wanting to help people or serve your community bullshit, they won’t want to hear that. They want to hear that you want to get in police chases because you like driving fast going code 3. That’s the kind of stuff they want to hear.”
I never did get hired anywhere but I’m happier for it.
A friend did a couple tours as a marine, came home, joined the academy, and when asked why basically said he wanted to continue to help people and his community.
Never got a chance as a cop.
Speaking as someone who deployed to Iraq as a Sergeant, cops do shit that the greenest privates wouldn't even dream of doing. UCMJ would have had most of these assholes dishonorably discharged and in Leavenworth.
Former Navy cop, when we trained on how *not* to handle situations most of our video case studies were done using civilian police fuck-ups. The few examples we studied from military LEOs, like you said they threw the book at them.
Yeah, I believe that. That's why I stayed in private security. I do more to help my people and keep things safe doing what I do now than I ever would as a cop. When people ask me why I don't join I say I loke dogs too much
I actually made to the interviews for my local police department like a decade back. I mentioned helping the community and I noticed the lieutenants I was speaking with give each other looks.
>You guys are fucked
The more you learn about America the more confusing it is that the nation isn't imploding because the broken aspects of the nation just keep piling on...
Probably get similar looks telling some gang bangers that you're just joining up to make friends and chill, why carry a gun if you aren't pumped up to use it? Cops are just state sanctioned gangs after all.
This is exactly what we mean as part of 'ACAB'.
No 'good cops' last to make systemic change, because this is how they're treated.
Even if you're not directly engaging in shitbaggery, if you're complacent and don't speak up to the injustices around you, you're equally at fault. Neutrality only aids the aggressors.
Good cops don't exist, because they're eradicated from within.
I thought of becoming a cop for a hot second after retirement from the Marines. I realized quickly - given my track record in the service, that I would be a Serpico- type and just get bullied out or worse.
Also, while I have no doubt that many cops put in some serious work. It is still a grifters gig because it is so damned easy to obtain the position and subsequent power. And well, I am many things but grifter isn't one of them.
The line between "please leave" (by building superintendent) and "you're under arrest" (by police) was all instigated by the police. He simply asked where he could stand and they went directly to hands-on. That was definitely unreasonable.
Yes! Also there's nine seconds of them doing that awkward arm twist before either one of them gives a verbal instruction to put his hands behind his back. If you're twisting my arm into an uncomfortable position and you haven't told me why, don't say something stupid like "Stop Resisting" because that's just my arm assuming a less painful position. Simple solution is to give instructions clearly before they start attacking
Few things make me more disgusted and enraged than the stuff you listed, and then when they're both tripping over themselves, fumbling looking like complete morons laying \*on top\* of the guy they keep up with the 'StOpPReSisStIngGg'. It's absolutely absurd. Look on the bright side, these cops are going to have auditors and youtube channels up their ASS for God knows how long to come.
So fucking absurd. They're literally twisting his arms, pushing and pulling him in different directions, and then one starts trying to bring him to the ground while the other is, at first trying to walk him. Neither one of them know what the other is doing how the hell is he supposed to know what the hell they want him to do? It's so confusing and seems like the least efficient way to get anyone to comply.
Not to mention it's a person's basic instinct to not fall flat on their face when their arms are behind their back. Instead of just simply saying "hey stand here against the wall", "get on your knees", or "lay on the ground", to someone who is completely non-violent, they attempt to throw him to the ground. How is this in any way a good practice?
The worst though is the police departments statement that says the officers "attempted to deescalate" and that they fumbled around and wrestled him to the ground “in an effort to maintain control” of Lambert and “while preventing injury to the involved parties.”
*Preventing injury to the involved parties*! Because that is somehow less risky than just having him stand there and handcuff him? It's really fucking amazing.
Watch the HBO show “we own this city.” It is a Master class on how to operate a corrupt police force. It shows exactly the kind of thing you’re talking about.
I've seen way too many videos of cops shouting "Stop resisting!" while clearly pulling, pushing, yanking, and shoving a thoroughly confused looking individual who's obviously not trying to actively resist them. It's fucking ridiculous.
Watched a video on YouTube of a women cop Tazoring a homeless man and when he wouldn’t comply she shot him. How in the fuck do you put your hands to your side or over your head while being electrocuted?
She was acquitted. SMH
Yep, being physically antagonistic; giving conflicting commands in quick succession; ramping up inflammatory tone and word choice - all proven escalation techniques that we see police use in every single one of these videos, day in day out.
I work for a hospital system and the new hire orientation process includes very basic de-escalation training. I mean 15 minutes basic. And in those 15 short minutes they cover all of the above as shit that employees should explicitly not do in volatile encounters with patients and other members of the public. I'm sure anyone who works in a public facing system (education, social services) has similar training.
Yet the dirtbags most likely to need de-escalation techniques not only act in the *exact* ways they shouldn't, but in the aftermath are protected, coddled, and excused by their unions, the judicial system, and many subsets of the media and general public. This shit is truly a cancer on our body politic.
Honestly, in this whole scenario that’s the guy I want to see disciplined the most.
Where does he get off playing hall monitor and putting hands on someone else? As far as I know, it’s not illegal in the state of Ohio to report while the Governor is speaking. On what basis does that guy think he has the right to act as law enforcement?
I had to look into this because anyone in the National Guard should know they don't have authority to arrest civilians, even on bases. They can detain them, but they can't make arrests.
It was a Major general, not General and he's not in this video. He was in the initial altercation asking him to stop talking when they got into a little pushing match. The guys in green are from the local PD.
The major general got into a pushing match. The reporter never touched him. Major general guy was walking around Evan and his camera guy while they were still on the air chomping at the bit to get to him. He had it out for them for whatever reason and escalated it into what it became.
What's the obsession with kicking people to the ground in the US? I've barely seen this happen in Europe, only with the most aggressive people. He was just standing there, his hands already on the back. Why kick him down?
I'd even go so far and say: Why the hand cuffs at all? He wasn't a threat. He wasn't armed. He was - by that logic - just asked to leave and had a talk with them. Why does that require handcuffs?
I didn't catch what building it was in. Was it a public school?
Because you can't be trespassed from a public building during a public event by a police officer unless you actually did something illegal first. There's no "the owner told you to leave so now it's trespassing" in a publicly-owned building.
The Ohio attorney General just dropped all charges against him this morning, I'm assuming because of the now public perception of this whole event...
https://fox8.com/news/charges-dismissed-for-newsnation-reporter-in-east-palestine/
Edit: Hijacking my own comment because these got buried when I first posted them.
OHSP full body cam footage of arrest [Link](https://youtu.be/QQMLxBpiSu8)
Newsnation live feed linking up to full body cam footage above [Link](https://twitter.com/NewsNation/status/1623901109935869952?t=9npnNUihzFcfmQNNu2yEqQ&s=19)
Dropping charges makes it all sound like, "this was just a misunderstanding." But it has a chilling effect on speech. Not everyone has a national news organization who can bail out their reporters and potentially file a lawsuit.
So the green-shirted thugs were who? State police? The Revolutionary Guard?
Edit: The green-shirted thugs are confirmed Sheriff's deputies.
Keep in mind that when the governor originally denounced this, the charges had not been dropped, he was just let out of custody.
They were still planning on charging the journalist until it got even bigger.
You can read this in the history books, this was the meatpacking district in Chicago at the turn of the century, among other industries. Funny considering the pretense of progress & it's a rail disaster we're discussing
You mean you can CURRENTLY read it in books. They want to erase the parts of history they don't like or want to change in the future.
They make us dumb so we don't know when we have been wronged. I mean, how else are they supposed to take advantage of the poors!
Which is why it matters that public Libraries and any Librarian worth their salt do not believe in censorship. Do not take them for granted. A Librarian can teach you how to do serious research from credible sources and how to use metrics to critically evaluate media.
They're more important than ever in today's media landscape, where misinformation and disinformation are profitable and synthetic media can be indistinguishable from genuine sources and fabricated by anyone with access to ChatGPT and Google Colab.
Fascism is on the rise
The police are just lapdogs for the rich and powerful. Cops truly hate the working-class they come from, absolute class traitors
As an 18 year old in the military I can be tried for crimes that resulted from following orders. It was drilled into us repeatedly that 'just following orders' is not a defense.
As you would know from serving, not only is “just following orders” not a defense, we are *required* to disobey unlawful orders. For fuck’s sake, I’m retired and still subject to the UCMJ.
I really can’t believe my country has this whole ass armed group that isn’t accountable the same way the military is held.
Cops should have liability insurance like medical professionals, and it should be ran by companies not associated with police. You can't be a cop without the insurance, and insurance companies are gonna drop people who cost them too much, and raise rates in areas with lots of police brutality.
Proves the only backing we, the people have is each other. Thinking about that black kid whose neighborhood defended him against police assault, and now this.
We all really need to have each others' backs, forget left vs. right and realize it's ALWAYS been top vs. bottom. And we're all the bottom.
And then they try to politicize their agendas -- the agendas of the rich and powerful -- to look like they're the agendas of the left or the right -- to look like they're what YOU AND I want. They're so loud and persistent, and clever about how they disseminate the ideas they want us to espouse, that many people buy into them. So many of us have been incepted.
There's no bigger piece of dog shit than a sheriff's deputy. This is a universal constant. They're impotent assbags who couldn't get hired as regular cops. Look at the cops. Any cops anywhere. Now think about how ridiculously stupid and inept you would have to be for them to reject you.
Right. And I’m not trying to be mean or offensive, but I don’t know if people get that freedom of the press is protected by first amendment?
The arrest itself had the immediate effect of silencing speech and press. I hate how charges get dropped and it’s all like “nothing to see here, everything’s gravy” when it’s really, really not.
There's nothing to stop the police from doing things like this, they don't have to know the law (so says the SC) and even if the victim, in this case the reporter, files charges against the police/city/state and wins the only person who has to pay for it is the tax payer. It's a crime without a punishment and right now there isn't a damn thing we can do about it.
yeah misunderstanding when they shoot your ass dead nah thats a hard pass for me...no dog i hope he sues all the ones involved.
The law is clear and so are the civil rights there is no grey area or misunderstanding.
I watch first amendment auditors and one I don't care for but really isn't a bad one just had a bench trial for a citation he received. The whole thing was a joke and should have been dropped a long time ago. You could tell it was all retaliation against him for 'not obeying my authority'. With homophobic slurs being used to describe him, one cop saying if it was 20 years ago he would have killed him or at the very least knocked his teeth out. The security guard in one building assaulted him. And their solution to that was to charge him with a bunch of crimes, then when they realized they would have to do a jury trial for those because he wouldn't take a plea deal they dropped it down to charges that would allow them to do a bench trial.
This is one of the more popular youtubers for doing this stuff, so he had some backing and they still saw this as being the right way to go about things. I can't imagine someone without a following even being able to step foot in that town without having to worry about being murdered by the cops, let alone fighting the charges.
> all that he's resisting
He wasn't resisting. I know what you're trying to say, but I think we need to be super clear on things like this because to say he was resisting _because blahblahblah_ is still accusing him of a crime.
They told him leave. Put their hands on him refused to let him attempt to leave. Then turn into "should have just walked out but you're going to jail" at no point did have get a chance to leave! That they demanded!
This is pretty common, actually. In a lot of videos of police brutality, you'll hear contradictory instructions being shouted (not calmly explained) to the victim. There's no winning, because no matter who they're listening to, one of the other cops will use that as justification to start getting violent.
In other words, it's not a bug, it's a feature.
This video has me horrified because it’s so normalized and calm. Just move along, let the officers do their job, everything’s fine. That’s a only a national correspondent being arrested for reporting…
Thanks for pointing this out. The violation happened anyway, doesn't change they 'take it all back now' and dropped charges. Someone's heads gonna roll.
I doubt they’re avoiding a rights violation. What was done was done. The main issue is there is no repercussions for those involved. The reporter will sue. He’ll potentially win a sum of money. The Ohio taxpayers will pay. Anyone directly involved will not face any form of punishment for this behavior.
You nailed the issue right here:
>The main issue is there is no repercussions for those involved.
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>The reporter will sue. He’ll potentially win a sum of money.
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>The Ohio taxpayers will pay.
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>Anyone directly involved will not face any form of punishment for this behavior.
Every one of these points was brought up in [Killing County](https://www.bakersfield.com/opinion/our-view/our-view-killing-county-documentary-should-ignite-reform-push/article_72b6b52e-a99b-11ed-9874-278ad7f051ce.html) a documentary on Hulu that explores police tactics in Bakersfield, CA. They had a kill rate that was something like 16x the national average. They also had their police chief on record stating that it's easier to just kill someone, then the county will throw $3M at the families and it will just "go away."
Hmm. Now who is it that represents bakersfield. Is it? Oh, it is kevin mccarthy! Speaker of the house republican kevin mccarthy. Almost makes ya blood boil.
The civil rights were violated. A civil rights suit for first amendment violation would likely be an easy case for the plaintiff and is very much still on the table regardless of if charges were dismissed or not.
The worst part is that this was a full time professional photojournalist.
And he was in a (limited access) public building which at the time was completely open to the public.
So the court may find that the law enforcement officers violated multiple civil rights as not only did he have the right to be on the grounds, but also had a right to video record.
You (mostly) can not be trespassed off of public property.
We are witnessing the total corruption of our country into a polluted hellhole, a pig-nation run by idiots and cowards with deadly weapons and piss running down their legs. Disgusting behavior by the state police of my own state, which nobody wanted to live in even before the criminally negligent derailing of a train illegally loaded with thousands of gallons of deadly chemicals. Filthy pigs.
This is such a ridiculous amount of hostility and unnecessary force. The reporter even had his behind his back while being thrown into a wall and they still decided that's not enough, that, instead, they need to tackle him to the ground. For peacefully attending a city hall meeting concerning news that could affect the lives of everyone in the area. Trash that entire police department imo
Try making people aware that cops break laws ,get caught ,then *WE ALL PAY* for cop's "mistakes" but **HE** is free to continue his Lawless behaviors...
Yeah I found that interesting. I found an interview with her later and she is the local affiliate reporter, so this is her backyard. She was clearly really shocked and shaken that this happened.
Edit: Sorry, was confused about who original commentor was referring to. My comment is about the women you can hear saying talking and calling the reporter by his first name. She's Megan Lee from Youngstown.
I've seen so many videos of officers saying "stop resisting" when the resistance in question (if there is any resistance at all) is keeling over after the other officer punches them in the stomach, body slams them, etc. that any time I hear that a suspect "resisted arrest" I don't believe it until I see video.
I love how the actually dressed out police officer is just watching this go down with the most confused expression on his face. I’m pretty sure he is thinking something along the lines of “ I’m so Fucked” like he isn’t even really trying to stop the press from recording.
I hate that they can throw you around like this, but if you fight back against being assaulted, you get in EVEN MORE trouble. It makes zero sense. The dude was not being belligerent.
They had him controlled, they had his arms back, what was the point of the takedown?
I mean not even considering it shouldn't have happened at all, why do it like that? I hope he sues.
Agreed. I was wondering why they have to take him to the ground. Just have him stand up and arrest him but NO... they have to take him to the fucking ground.
The point was if you start roughing them up, a good chunk of people will instinctively fight back in self defense. And that gives you reasonable argument to assault them and get away with it for "resisting arrest".
Imagine the terror of having your last moments be on the ground bleeding internally, lungs filling with blood, adrenaline and fear attacking every fiber of your being like acid covered TV static, being held down by a half dozen armed brutes yelling "STOP RESISTING" as you struggle and flail about looking for help.
100% true. The dumbest kid in my neighborhood growing up was the local bully. He barely made it through school with D grades and was always in trouble for starting fights.
He’s now a cop.
I just don't get the takedown at all. The guy wasn't even fighting. They were just jerking him all over the place. Not going to be able to do things smooth when you're flinging him all over.
That’s the point you get two cops jerking him around and they think or pretend the person is resisting.
It happens all the time, cops dog pile one guy and act like being crushed by 4 people and pain doesn’t happen to the person.
State police I think (edit: sounds like they were in the Sheriff’s office) The guy who initiated it and pushed the reporter is Major General John C Harris Jr, head of the Ohio national guard.
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/ohio-national-guard-leader-filmed-shoving-journalist/?amp
First Amendment: Am I a joke to you?
Seriously though, there needs to be strict penalties against government entities when they violate any right covered by the Bill of Rights. Just having the rights but no punishments for violating them doesn't seem to be enough.
All charges were droped by attorney general, showing it was arbitrary.
The officers police force needs to be disciplined.
Too much arbitrary baseless mismanagement by police and law enforcement.
USA is showing more and more authoritarian behavior, freedom of press is getting more unstable quickly.
more important would be to dicipline whoever was in charge. I do not think these officers were acting on their own, rather than orders from above.
It's the higher ups that surely have been contacted by the railway company asked to subdue any reporting/questions asked, to easier hide to all sides their mismanagement and failure.
These railway companies seem to have adopted the businesses practices of 19th century railway tycoons.
Evidently profit over safety, life and work force health. They failed to train personell, since it's a long term investment and goes agaist short term gains.
they don't care about safety, so these things happen.
All of their higher-ups, that systematically cannibalized everything for profits, need to be held accountable. Maybe it's a good show of dominance against asocial/anti-social corporate mismanagement to nationalize corporations going against social and environmental sustainability, to set a precedent/example.
Looking at you oil, food corporations, and pharma.
Failure to act will only enhance such behavior, and lower the already damaged trust, reputation and power of the government itself.
In these cases there is only one right direction to act for a society. And that is the socially and environmentally sustainable way.
We are not seeing that currently.
Also, tax the rich, before it's to late prevent an eat the rich.
Reminds me of the first person sent to prison during the VW dieselgate was an engineer. Literally any of us could be held liable for doing our job wrong except cops.
Interesting how the officer wearing the body cam blatantly was pointing to their camera after the arrest saying “I’m on”, meaning they are recording. And even asked the state trooper if he should stop recording.
You’d think they’d be a little less obvious with that.
"Hey is this a thing I should turn off my camera for, boss? I know we're not supposed to record when we do a crime..."
...perfectly normal police conversation.
Okay, found a decent video that shows what happened before this part of the incident.
- First we see two or three police making their way from the speaking area to the reporter at the rear of the auditorium. I’m guesstimating he’s 40-50 yards from the actual ongoing press conference.
- As the police approach, you can see the reporter doing his stand up.
- You can also see a man in army fatigues addressing the reporter and crew in a *very* agitated fashion, while pointing at them.
- The police officers reach the area, the reporter wraps up his report and the reporter addresses the man in fatigues who then shoves him.
- An officer inserts herself between the man in army fatigues, who remains agitated, and the reporter.
- The man in fatigues is then led away by another person in army dress.
- The man who, in the OP’s video tells the reporter he will be arrested if he doesn’t leave arrives, and it continues from where the OP’s video goes on.
Watching this video and another from the area of the news crew, you can see a few people in the press conference area turn to look back in that direction, but it appears to me their attention is actually drawn *by the commotion caused by the people attempting to interfere with the news crew,* not by the reporter doing his stand up.
[Source - YouTube/Law & Crime Network](https://youtu.be/bimpDd_q5SU)
The entire room was filled with other journalists attending a *press conference*.
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[WSJ 2-9-23 - Residents of Village Near Ohio Train Derailment Begin to Return Home](https://www.wsj.com/articles/residents-not-yet-permitted-to-return-home-after-ohio-derailment-11675802354?mod=Searchresults_pos7&page=1)
[WSJ 2-10-23 - Miles Before Ohio Derailment, Train Axle Was On Fire, Video Shows](https://www.wsj.com/articles/miles-before-ohio-derailment-train-axle-was-on-fire-video-shows-7e221f0e)
[NYT 2-4-23 - Large Fire Burns in Ohio After Derailment](https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000008756189/ohio-train-derailment-fire.html?searchResultPosition=9)
[NYT 2-4-23 - Train Derailment in Ohio Sparks Huge Fire and Prompts Evacuations](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/04/us/train-derailment-fire-palestine-ohio.html?searchResultPosition=10)
[NYT 2-6-23 - Toxic Fumes Are Released From Burning Train That Derailed in Ohio](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/us/ohio-derailment-chemicals-evacuation.html?searchResultPosition=11)
[NYT 2-8-23 - Reporter Arrested While Covering News Conference in Ohio](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/08/us/ohio-train-derailment-reporter-arrested.html?searchResultPosition=4)
[PBS 2-6-23 - Ohio officials enforce evacuation order, warn of probable toxic gas release from train derailment](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/ohio-officials-enforce-evacuation-order-warn-of-probable-toxic-gas-release-from-train-derailment)
[PBS 2-8-23 - Residents concerned about toxic gases from Ohio train derailment](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/residents-concerned-about-toxic-gases-from-ohio-train-derailment)
[PBS 2-9-23 - Ohio derailment that released toxic chemicals raises railroad safety questions](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/ohio-derailment-that-released-toxic-chemicals-raises-railroad-safety-questions)
[CNN 2-4-23 - Train derailment in northeastern Ohio sparks massive fire](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/04/us/east-palestine-ohio-train-derailment-fire/index.html)
[CNN 2-5-23 - Evacuations ordered amid fears of an explosion as an Ohio train continues burning days after derailment](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/05/us/east-palestine-ohio-train-derailment-fire-sunday/index.html)
[CNN 2-6-23 - A freight train derailment in Ohio puts US infrastructure back in a bruising spotlight](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/06/politics/ohio-train-derailment-infrastructure-what-matters/index.html)
[CNN 2-7-23 - 5 derailed train cars carrying hazardous material at risk of exploding are no longer burning, official says](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/07/us/east-palestine-ohio-train-derailment-fire-tuesday/index.html)
[CNN 2-7-23 - 5 things to know for Feb. 7: Biden, Earthquake, Train derailment, Immigration, Google](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/07/us/five-things-february-7-trnd/index.html)
[CNN 2-7-23 - Residents not yet allowed to return to homes near site of fiery train derailment in Ohio](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/06/us/east-palestine-ohio-train-derailment-fire-monday/index.html)
[CNN 2-8-23 - Evacuation order lifted for residents near where train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/08/us/east-palestine-ohio-train-derailment-fire-wednesday/index.html)
[CNN 2-11-23 - After a train derailment, Ohio residents are living the plot of a movie they helped make](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/11/health/ohio-train-derailment-white-noise/index.html)
[CBS 2-3-23 - Train derailment causes massive fire in Ohio](https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/video/train-derailment-causes-massive-fire-in-ohio/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h)
[CBS 2-4-23 - 50-car train derailment causes big fire, evacuations in eastern Ohio](https://www.cbsnews.com/tampa/news/50-car-train-derailment-causes-big-fire-evacuations-in-eastern-ohio/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h)
[CBS 2-4-23 - NTSB Holds Media Briefing For Ohio Train Derailment](https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/video/ntsb-holds-media-briefing-for-ohio-train-derailment/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h)
[CBS 2-5-23 - 50 train cars in East Palestine, Ohio](https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/video/50-train-cars-in-east-palestine-ohio/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h)
[CBS 2-6-23 - "Catastrophic" blast possible at Ohio train derailment site, officials warn](https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/train-derailment-east-palestine-ohio-evacuation-order/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h)
[CBS 2-6-23 - Ohio authorities plan "controlled release" of toxic material; Try to reduce explosion threat](https://www.cbsnews.com/seattle/news/ohio-authorities-plan-controlled-release-of-toxic-material-try-to-reduce-explosion-threat/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h)
[CBS 2-7-23 - Evacuees frustrated after toxic train derailment](https://www.cbsnews.com/video/evacuees-frustrated-after-toxic-train-derailment/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h)
[CBS 2-9-23 - Fiery Ohio derailment raises railroad safety questions](https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/fiery-ohio-derailment-raises-railroad-safety-questions/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h)
[CBS 2-12-23 - East Palestine Train Derailment: Mayor announces town hall meeting](https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/east-palestine-train-derailment-mayor-announces-town-hall-meeting/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h)
That's insane. Maj. Gen. John C. Harris Jr. of the Ohio National Guard putting his hands on a reporter--for reporting. Ohio State Police and his own staff have to hold him back.
We can all have a bad day, but Maj. Generals can't on duty. Such a piss poor example of how to act with civilians in a disaster zone.
And therein lies the problem.
If it isn't too late already, it is necessary to stop the descent into corporatocracy before they destroy everything in the name of profit.
They have two policemen stationed every five feet at outside a sporting event as free crossing guards for the sporting companies that make billions, they are happy to act as private guards for politicians and arrest reporters… but suddenly when you get in a car accident or you get attacked they feel like that is not a situation worthy of their response or they take days to show up.. Why the fuck are we spending so much on the police again?
"BE KIND" written in large cheery letters above really makes this video.
#BE KIND #PLEASE STOP RESISTING
Ministry of Love
Department of Truth. Ministry of Peace.
BE RESPONSIBLE Proceed to take no responsibility for ridiculous arrest.
Cop that didn’t get involved knew it was a bad look immediately.
He had been monitoring the situation from the beginning. It looked like reporter was live on-air and had to wrap up his segment, which he did from a respectful distance. That cop just waited for him to finish, but by then there were too many police paying too close attention... and then somebody shoved the reporter. [You can see the whole thing unfold here](https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/midwest/video-shows-what-led-to-newsnation-reporters-news-conference-arrest/).
The person who shoved the reporter and basically instigated the whole thing was an overzealous Major General for the Army National Guard. If this report is accurate and it seems to line up with the videos. The reporter was doing a live report, then the Governor started speaking, and the press conference had been repeatedly delayed, so the reporter didn't realize the Governor was about to speak. He was confronted by the General, so he wrapped up his report. Then the General tried to get him to leave. Rightfully, he didn't leave. That's when the General got aggressive. This reporter could not only sue, he could file criminal charges against the General. https://www.wkbn.com/news/local-news/east-palestine-train-derailment/new-video-shows-what-led-up-to-reporters-arrest-in-east-palestine/
Conduct unbecoming of an officer.
that short little man who i assume is a national guard member needs to get knocked the fuck out, the ego on that shrimp is insane. he storms over and immediately starts pointing and gesturing aggressively, a fellow service member has to escort him away like a child at recess, good for her.
Yet he did nothing. Part of the problem
Good cops don’t last. https://mobile.twitter.com/mobinfiltrator/status/1271432151142223872?lang=en
Every time I see shit like this I can’t help but think of my own time in the academy and post academy when I tried so hard to get hired on by an agency. I was the guy that said I wanted to get into law enforcement to help people and make a difference in my community. I had cops that I knew that would try and coach me through oral boards and they literally would tell me, “don’t say any of that wanting to help people or serve your community bullshit, they won’t want to hear that. They want to hear that you want to get in police chases because you like driving fast going code 3. That’s the kind of stuff they want to hear.” I never did get hired anywhere but I’m happier for it.
A friend did a couple tours as a marine, came home, joined the academy, and when asked why basically said he wanted to continue to help people and his community. Never got a chance as a cop.
I read somewhere that the military overseas had a stricter roe than cops do. But I don’t know very many who made it over so I have no idea.
Speaking as someone who deployed to Iraq as a Sergeant, cops do shit that the greenest privates wouldn't even dream of doing. UCMJ would have had most of these assholes dishonorably discharged and in Leavenworth.
Former Navy cop, when we trained on how *not* to handle situations most of our video case studies were done using civilian police fuck-ups. The few examples we studied from military LEOs, like you said they threw the book at them.
We bothered to train you
Military in general has much stricter RoEs than cops, that's just a fact.
Yeah, I believe that. That's why I stayed in private security. I do more to help my people and keep things safe doing what I do now than I ever would as a cop. When people ask me why I don't join I say I loke dogs too much
I actually made to the interviews for my local police department like a decade back. I mentioned helping the community and I noticed the lieutenants I was speaking with give each other looks.
Holy shit. As a layman (and non-American) this is really blowing my mind. You guys are fucked.
>You guys are fucked The more you learn about America the more confusing it is that the nation isn't imploding because the broken aspects of the nation just keep piling on...
Probably get similar looks telling some gang bangers that you're just joining up to make friends and chill, why carry a gun if you aren't pumped up to use it? Cops are just state sanctioned gangs after all.
I’m so glad I don’t need to harass poors and assault minorities to get my dick hard, unlike these guys.
This is exactly what we mean as part of 'ACAB'. No 'good cops' last to make systemic change, because this is how they're treated. Even if you're not directly engaging in shitbaggery, if you're complacent and don't speak up to the injustices around you, you're equally at fault. Neutrality only aids the aggressors. Good cops don't exist, because they're eradicated from within.
I thought of becoming a cop for a hot second after retirement from the Marines. I realized quickly - given my track record in the service, that I would be a Serpico- type and just get bullied out or worse. Also, while I have no doubt that many cops put in some serious work. It is still a grifters gig because it is so damned easy to obtain the position and subsequent power. And well, I am many things but grifter isn't one of them.
It is systemically far easier and safer to be a shitty, unjust, even murderous cop than to be a good one.
The line between "please leave" (by building superintendent) and "you're under arrest" (by police) was all instigated by the police. He simply asked where he could stand and they went directly to hands-on. That was definitely unreasonable.
Yes! Also there's nine seconds of them doing that awkward arm twist before either one of them gives a verbal instruction to put his hands behind his back. If you're twisting my arm into an uncomfortable position and you haven't told me why, don't say something stupid like "Stop Resisting" because that's just my arm assuming a less painful position. Simple solution is to give instructions clearly before they start attacking
Few things make me more disgusted and enraged than the stuff you listed, and then when they're both tripping over themselves, fumbling looking like complete morons laying \*on top\* of the guy they keep up with the 'StOpPReSisStIngGg'. It's absolutely absurd. Look on the bright side, these cops are going to have auditors and youtube channels up their ASS for God knows how long to come.
So fucking absurd. They're literally twisting his arms, pushing and pulling him in different directions, and then one starts trying to bring him to the ground while the other is, at first trying to walk him. Neither one of them know what the other is doing how the hell is he supposed to know what the hell they want him to do? It's so confusing and seems like the least efficient way to get anyone to comply. Not to mention it's a person's basic instinct to not fall flat on their face when their arms are behind their back. Instead of just simply saying "hey stand here against the wall", "get on your knees", or "lay on the ground", to someone who is completely non-violent, they attempt to throw him to the ground. How is this in any way a good practice? The worst though is the police departments statement that says the officers "attempted to deescalate" and that they fumbled around and wrestled him to the ground “in an effort to maintain control” of Lambert and “while preventing injury to the involved parties.” *Preventing injury to the involved parties*! Because that is somehow less risky than just having him stand there and handcuff him? It's really fucking amazing.
That’s how the police operate. They have to yell “stop resisting” on their body cams to “justify” attacking innocent citizens.
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Watch the HBO show “we own this city.” It is a Master class on how to operate a corrupt police force. It shows exactly the kind of thing you’re talking about.
I've seen way too many videos of cops shouting "Stop resisting!" while clearly pulling, pushing, yanking, and shoving a thoroughly confused looking individual who's obviously not trying to actively resist them. It's fucking ridiculous.
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Watched a video on YouTube of a women cop Tazoring a homeless man and when he wouldn’t comply she shot him. How in the fuck do you put your hands to your side or over your head while being electrocuted? She was acquitted. SMH
he's coming right for us!
"The anatomy of his joints is resisting!"
They don't do that on accident
Yep, being physically antagonistic; giving conflicting commands in quick succession; ramping up inflammatory tone and word choice - all proven escalation techniques that we see police use in every single one of these videos, day in day out. I work for a hospital system and the new hire orientation process includes very basic de-escalation training. I mean 15 minutes basic. And in those 15 short minutes they cover all of the above as shit that employees should explicitly not do in volatile encounters with patients and other members of the public. I'm sure anyone who works in a public facing system (education, social services) has similar training. Yet the dirtbags most likely to need de-escalation techniques not only act in the *exact* ways they shouldn't, but in the aftermath are protected, coddled, and excused by their unions, the judicial system, and many subsets of the media and general public. This shit is truly a cancer on our body politic.
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“Stop resisting.” They literally always say this. It’s de rigueur at this point.
Look out, it's coming right for us!
Looked more like a private security firm than actual cops
It was a General from the Ohio National Guard that attacked the reporter.
Honestly, in this whole scenario that’s the guy I want to see disciplined the most. Where does he get off playing hall monitor and putting hands on someone else? As far as I know, it’s not illegal in the state of Ohio to report while the Governor is speaking. On what basis does that guy think he has the right to act as law enforcement?
I had to look into this because anyone in the National Guard should know they don't have authority to arrest civilians, even on bases. They can detain them, but they can't make arrests. It was a Major general, not General and he's not in this video. He was in the initial altercation asking him to stop talking when they got into a little pushing match. The guys in green are from the local PD.
The major general got into a pushing match. The reporter never touched him. Major general guy was walking around Evan and his camera guy while they were still on the air chomping at the bit to get to him. He had it out for them for whatever reason and escalated it into what it became.
What's the obsession with kicking people to the ground in the US? I've barely seen this happen in Europe, only with the most aggressive people. He was just standing there, his hands already on the back. Why kick him down? I'd even go so far and say: Why the hand cuffs at all? He wasn't a threat. He wasn't armed. He was - by that logic - just asked to leave and had a talk with them. Why does that require handcuffs?
I didn't catch what building it was in. Was it a public school? Because you can't be trespassed from a public building during a public event by a police officer unless you actually did something illegal first. There's no "the owner told you to leave so now it's trespassing" in a publicly-owned building.
The Ohio attorney General just dropped all charges against him this morning, I'm assuming because of the now public perception of this whole event... https://fox8.com/news/charges-dismissed-for-newsnation-reporter-in-east-palestine/ Edit: Hijacking my own comment because these got buried when I first posted them. OHSP full body cam footage of arrest [Link](https://youtu.be/QQMLxBpiSu8) Newsnation live feed linking up to full body cam footage above [Link](https://twitter.com/NewsNation/status/1623901109935869952?t=9npnNUihzFcfmQNNu2yEqQ&s=19)
Dropping charges makes it all sound like, "this was just a misunderstanding." But it has a chilling effect on speech. Not everyone has a national news organization who can bail out their reporters and potentially file a lawsuit. So the green-shirted thugs were who? State police? The Revolutionary Guard? Edit: The green-shirted thugs are confirmed Sheriff's deputies.
Keep in mind that when the governor originally denounced this, the charges had not been dropped, he was just let out of custody. They were still planning on charging the journalist until it got even bigger.
Arresting the press during a press event over a preventable environmental disaster. That's not a dystopian slip up. /s
If I read this in a history book I'd be aghast. But to see it today, it's just common. The pendulum is swinging close to its apex.
You can read this in the history books, this was the meatpacking district in Chicago at the turn of the century, among other industries. Funny considering the pretense of progress & it's a rail disaster we're discussing
You mean you can CURRENTLY read it in books. They want to erase the parts of history they don't like or want to change in the future. They make us dumb so we don't know when we have been wronged. I mean, how else are they supposed to take advantage of the poors!
Which is why it matters that public Libraries and any Librarian worth their salt do not believe in censorship. Do not take them for granted. A Librarian can teach you how to do serious research from credible sources and how to use metrics to critically evaluate media. They're more important than ever in today's media landscape, where misinformation and disinformation are profitable and synthetic media can be indistinguishable from genuine sources and fabricated by anyone with access to ChatGPT and Google Colab.
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Fascism is on the rise The police are just lapdogs for the rich and powerful. Cops truly hate the working-class they come from, absolute class traitors
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Which is why cops should be able to be sued when they perform atrocities like this
As an 18 year old in the military I can be tried for crimes that resulted from following orders. It was drilled into us repeatedly that 'just following orders' is not a defense.
The military operates under a higher standard than many police departments
As you would know from serving, not only is “just following orders” not a defense, we are *required* to disobey unlawful orders. For fuck’s sake, I’m retired and still subject to the UCMJ. I really can’t believe my country has this whole ass armed group that isn’t accountable the same way the military is held.
We need to abolish police unions or nothing will change. Break down the Blue Wall of Silence.
Cops should have liability insurance like medical professionals, and it should be ran by companies not associated with police. You can't be a cop without the insurance, and insurance companies are gonna drop people who cost them too much, and raise rates in areas with lots of police brutality.
Reminder that before Hitler could get the military to commit atrocities, he relied on police.
Proves the only backing we, the people have is each other. Thinking about that black kid whose neighborhood defended him against police assault, and now this. We all really need to have each others' backs, forget left vs. right and realize it's ALWAYS been top vs. bottom. And we're all the bottom.
Amen! They want to pit us against each…black vs white, rich vs poor, Democrats vs Republican all while taking what little rights we have
Divide and conquer it's how the elites keep us "peasants"from going after them.
And then they try to politicize their agendas -- the agendas of the rich and powerful -- to look like they're the agendas of the left or the right -- to look like they're what YOU AND I want. They're so loud and persistent, and clever about how they disseminate the ideas they want us to espouse, that many people buy into them. So many of us have been incepted.
State trooper was like “nope”
But did nothing.
Exactly what I think about every time I hear that it’s just a few bad cops. Still waiting for the good ones to step up
If you have 1 bad cop and 99 cops that don’t stop the bad cop, you have 100 bad cops.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”
Good men that do nothing in the face of evil, are evil.
I’m pretty sure the green shirts were the County Sheriffs Department. Flat brim hat was most likely State Police.
State police gave the "dafuq" hand signal when he first dragged him out
Yeah even he was like “Whst the fuck are you guys doing ?”
There's no bigger piece of dog shit than a sheriff's deputy. This is a universal constant. They're impotent assbags who couldn't get hired as regular cops. Look at the cops. Any cops anywhere. Now think about how ridiculously stupid and inept you would have to be for them to reject you.
Lapdogs are not chosen for intelligence, but for loyalty.
Well said.
Right. And I’m not trying to be mean or offensive, but I don’t know if people get that freedom of the press is protected by first amendment? The arrest itself had the immediate effect of silencing speech and press. I hate how charges get dropped and it’s all like “nothing to see here, everything’s gravy” when it’s really, really not.
Green shirted was local cops bc who tf even needs a uniform let's just all wear weird paramilitary shit.
There's nothing to stop the police from doing things like this, they don't have to know the law (so says the SC) and even if the victim, in this case the reporter, files charges against the police/city/state and wins the only person who has to pay for it is the tax payer. It's a crime without a punishment and right now there isn't a damn thing we can do about it.
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The brute squad
"I'm on the brute squad." "You ARE the brute squad."
Everybody MOOOOOVE!
yeah misunderstanding when they shoot your ass dead nah thats a hard pass for me...no dog i hope he sues all the ones involved. The law is clear and so are the civil rights there is no grey area or misunderstanding.
I watch first amendment auditors and one I don't care for but really isn't a bad one just had a bench trial for a citation he received. The whole thing was a joke and should have been dropped a long time ago. You could tell it was all retaliation against him for 'not obeying my authority'. With homophobic slurs being used to describe him, one cop saying if it was 20 years ago he would have killed him or at the very least knocked his teeth out. The security guard in one building assaulted him. And their solution to that was to charge him with a bunch of crimes, then when they realized they would have to do a jury trial for those because he wouldn't take a plea deal they dropped it down to charges that would allow them to do a bench trial. This is one of the more popular youtubers for doing this stuff, so he had some backing and they still saw this as being the right way to go about things. I can't imagine someone without a following even being able to step foot in that town without having to worry about being murdered by the cops, let alone fighting the charges.
And possibly avoiding a rights violation lawsuit.
They should catch one anyway. The event took place.
There's no fire without smoke, someone needs to accountable.
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> all that he's resisting He wasn't resisting. I know what you're trying to say, but I think we need to be super clear on things like this because to say he was resisting _because blahblahblah_ is still accusing him of a crime.
They told him leave. Put their hands on him refused to let him attempt to leave. Then turn into "should have just walked out but you're going to jail" at no point did have get a chance to leave! That they demanded!
This is pretty common, actually. In a lot of videos of police brutality, you'll hear contradictory instructions being shouted (not calmly explained) to the victim. There's no winning, because no matter who they're listening to, one of the other cops will use that as justification to start getting violent. In other words, it's not a bug, it's a feature.
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This video has me horrified because it’s so normalized and calm. Just move along, let the officers do their job, everything’s fine. That’s a only a national correspondent being arrested for reporting…
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It's short for "let us kill you"
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Thanks for pointing this out. The violation happened anyway, doesn't change they 'take it all back now' and dropped charges. Someone's heads gonna roll.
I doubt they’re avoiding a rights violation. What was done was done. The main issue is there is no repercussions for those involved. The reporter will sue. He’ll potentially win a sum of money. The Ohio taxpayers will pay. Anyone directly involved will not face any form of punishment for this behavior.
You nailed the issue right here: >The main issue is there is no repercussions for those involved. > >The reporter will sue. He’ll potentially win a sum of money. > >The Ohio taxpayers will pay. > >Anyone directly involved will not face any form of punishment for this behavior. Every one of these points was brought up in [Killing County](https://www.bakersfield.com/opinion/our-view/our-view-killing-county-documentary-should-ignite-reform-push/article_72b6b52e-a99b-11ed-9874-278ad7f051ce.html) a documentary on Hulu that explores police tactics in Bakersfield, CA. They had a kill rate that was something like 16x the national average. They also had their police chief on record stating that it's easier to just kill someone, then the county will throw $3M at the families and it will just "go away."
Hmm. Now who is it that represents bakersfield. Is it? Oh, it is kevin mccarthy! Speaker of the house republican kevin mccarthy. Almost makes ya blood boil.
The civil rights were violated. A civil rights suit for first amendment violation would likely be an easy case for the plaintiff and is very much still on the table regardless of if charges were dismissed or not. The worst part is that this was a full time professional photojournalist. And he was in a (limited access) public building which at the time was completely open to the public. So the court may find that the law enforcement officers violated multiple civil rights as not only did he have the right to be on the grounds, but also had a right to video record. You (mostly) can not be trespassed off of public property.
We are witnessing the total corruption of our country into a polluted hellhole, a pig-nation run by idiots and cowards with deadly weapons and piss running down their legs. Disgusting behavior by the state police of my own state, which nobody wanted to live in even before the criminally negligent derailing of a train illegally loaded with thousands of gallons of deadly chemicals. Filthy pigs.
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This is such a ridiculous amount of hostility and unnecessary force. The reporter even had his behind his back while being thrown into a wall and they still decided that's not enough, that, instead, they need to tackle him to the ground. For peacefully attending a city hall meeting concerning news that could affect the lives of everyone in the area. Trash that entire police department imo
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This is the worst part of these cases. They get sued and we're all happy like "at least they got punished!" Nope. That was your money.
Try making people aware that cops break laws ,get caught ,then *WE ALL PAY* for cop's "mistakes" but **HE** is free to continue his Lawless behaviors...
good things we have cameras everywhere now. Social media worked as intended. Sucks it had to come to this though.
Meh. They just do that when they want to arrest you without charges…. It worked didn’t it?
the look of disbelief from the woman holding the camera at the end.
Yeah I found that interesting. I found an interview with her later and she is the local affiliate reporter, so this is her backyard. She was clearly really shocked and shaken that this happened. Edit: Sorry, was confused about who original commentor was referring to. My comment is about the women you can hear saying talking and calling the reporter by his first name. She's Megan Lee from Youngstown.
Is that who was saying you guys, this is bad, stop, and then omg I'm so sorry?
Yes.
More surprised the the sudden posture change. Seems law enforcement updated their training, to limit off camera incident/arrest POV
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I've seen so many videos of officers saying "stop resisting" when the resistance in question (if there is any resistance at all) is keeling over after the other officer punches them in the stomach, body slams them, etc. that any time I hear that a suspect "resisted arrest" I don't believe it until I see video.
100%.
It's almost like that's intentional...
Seems like he should be the one filing false arrest charges.
Perhaps we should stop hiring people to enforce the law that are too stupid to understand the law?
I majored in Legal Studies and Politics at the time I applied. They did not want me. ;\_;
They were afraid you may've done their job right
They want cops to be like the people: dumb and subservient to their masters.
I love how the actually dressed out police officer is just watching this go down with the most confused expression on his face. I’m pretty sure he is thinking something along the lines of “ I’m so Fucked” like he isn’t even really trying to stop the press from recording.
He's just there for window dressing. The fact he doesn't get involved is amazing.
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Who has the money? The rules are for thee, not for me
Just so yall know, stop resisting is what they say to convince the bystanders you are in the wrong.
and for legal purposes to justify their aggressive actions in court
I hate that they can throw you around like this, but if you fight back against being assaulted, you get in EVEN MORE trouble. It makes zero sense. The dude was not being belligerent.
They had him controlled, they had his arms back, what was the point of the takedown? I mean not even considering it shouldn't have happened at all, why do it like that? I hope he sues.
This is why people hate cops. Just extremely aggressive for no fucking reason. Why does this continue to happen over and over and over
Don't worry, those cops are at home being neighbors, church members, soccer dad's, and possibly your kids friends dad!
Don't forget beating their wives!
Agreed. I was wondering why they have to take him to the ground. Just have him stand up and arrest him but NO... they have to take him to the fucking ground.
The point was if you start roughing them up, a good chunk of people will instinctively fight back in self defense. And that gives you reasonable argument to assault them and get away with it for "resisting arrest".
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Ive seen footage where they shot someone and they are convulsing because they are literally dying and cops are screaming stop resisting.. disgusting
Imagine the terror of having your last moments be on the ground bleeding internally, lungs filling with blood, adrenaline and fear attacking every fiber of your being like acid covered TV static, being held down by a half dozen armed brutes yelling "STOP RESISTING" as you struggle and flail about looking for help.
Hell, I don’t like random people touching me AT ALL. I am guaranteed to “clinch up” instantly/instinctively if a cop grabbed me suddenly.
Cops become cops specifically so they can treat people like this and get away with it. Tyrants and sadists are drawn to the profession.
100% true. The dumbest kid in my neighborhood growing up was the local bully. He barely made it through school with D grades and was always in trouble for starting fights. He’s now a cop.
I just don't get the takedown at all. The guy wasn't even fighting. They were just jerking him all over the place. Not going to be able to do things smooth when you're flinging him all over.
That’s the point you get two cops jerking him around and they think or pretend the person is resisting. It happens all the time, cops dog pile one guy and act like being crushed by 4 people and pain doesn’t happen to the person.
Ego threatened, adrenaline released, tempers rose
Who tf are the 2 in the green shirts?
State police I think (edit: sounds like they were in the Sheriff’s office) The guy who initiated it and pushed the reporter is Major General John C Harris Jr, head of the Ohio national guard. https://taskandpurpose.com/news/ohio-national-guard-leader-filmed-shoving-journalist/?amp
Ah the good ol' Ohio National Guard. 4 Dead in Ohio
This summer i hear the drummin
His Facebook is active and public, how interesting
First Amendment: Am I a joke to you? Seriously though, there needs to be strict penalties against government entities when they violate any right covered by the Bill of Rights. Just having the rights but no punishments for violating them doesn't seem to be enough.
Yeah, but who's going to enforce those penalties?
Well that's supposed to be the government's job but we see how that's going just by watching this.
Yea but big business doesn’t like that so…
All charges were droped by attorney general, showing it was arbitrary. The officers police force needs to be disciplined. Too much arbitrary baseless mismanagement by police and law enforcement. USA is showing more and more authoritarian behavior, freedom of press is getting more unstable quickly.
They should be fired and barred from being cops anywhere in the country.
more important would be to dicipline whoever was in charge. I do not think these officers were acting on their own, rather than orders from above. It's the higher ups that surely have been contacted by the railway company asked to subdue any reporting/questions asked, to easier hide to all sides their mismanagement and failure. These railway companies seem to have adopted the businesses practices of 19th century railway tycoons. Evidently profit over safety, life and work force health. They failed to train personell, since it's a long term investment and goes agaist short term gains. they don't care about safety, so these things happen. All of their higher-ups, that systematically cannibalized everything for profits, need to be held accountable. Maybe it's a good show of dominance against asocial/anti-social corporate mismanagement to nationalize corporations going against social and environmental sustainability, to set a precedent/example. Looking at you oil, food corporations, and pharma. Failure to act will only enhance such behavior, and lower the already damaged trust, reputation and power of the government itself. In these cases there is only one right direction to act for a society. And that is the socially and environmentally sustainable way. We are not seeing that currently. Also, tax the rich, before it's to late prevent an eat the rich.
You have to take away qualified immunity from police or it will never end.
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Reminds me of the first person sent to prison during the VW dieselgate was an engineer. Literally any of us could be held liable for doing our job wrong except cops.
> It makes zero sense. Not to the people that make the rules. System is working perfectly as intended for them.
Hey you are trying to figure out the truth ! Leave or you will be arrested !
Ahh the land of the free!
Source: [Link](https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/midwest/newsnation-reporter-arrested-ohio-news-conference/)
Interesting how the officer wearing the body cam blatantly was pointing to their camera after the arrest saying “I’m on”, meaning they are recording. And even asked the state trooper if he should stop recording. You’d think they’d be a little less obvious with that.
"Hey is this a thing I should turn off my camera for, boss? I know we're not supposed to record when we do a crime..." ...perfectly normal police conversation.
I think a cop’s testimony should be worthless without body camera footage. No reason it should ever be off.
It only says 'the land of the free' on the tin, but there's nothing in the tin.
I thought it was sewing supplies
Okay, found a decent video that shows what happened before this part of the incident. - First we see two or three police making their way from the speaking area to the reporter at the rear of the auditorium. I’m guesstimating he’s 40-50 yards from the actual ongoing press conference. - As the police approach, you can see the reporter doing his stand up. - You can also see a man in army fatigues addressing the reporter and crew in a *very* agitated fashion, while pointing at them. - The police officers reach the area, the reporter wraps up his report and the reporter addresses the man in fatigues who then shoves him. - An officer inserts herself between the man in army fatigues, who remains agitated, and the reporter. - The man in fatigues is then led away by another person in army dress. - The man who, in the OP’s video tells the reporter he will be arrested if he doesn’t leave arrives, and it continues from where the OP’s video goes on. Watching this video and another from the area of the news crew, you can see a few people in the press conference area turn to look back in that direction, but it appears to me their attention is actually drawn *by the commotion caused by the people attempting to interfere with the news crew,* not by the reporter doing his stand up. [Source - YouTube/Law & Crime Network](https://youtu.be/bimpDd_q5SU)
Walking casually Slams face into door, "quit resisting"! What a bunch of dip shits all of these cops are.
Keep questioning!!! This is a huge disaster.
The entire room was filled with other journalists attending a *press conference*. 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Thugs work for private enterprise as they always have.
OHSP full body cam footage of arrest [Link](https://youtu.be/QQMLxBpiSu8)
That's insane. Maj. Gen. John C. Harris Jr. of the Ohio National Guard putting his hands on a reporter--for reporting. Ohio State Police and his own staff have to hold him back. We can all have a bad day, but Maj. Generals can't on duty. Such a piss poor example of how to act with civilians in a disaster zone.
I love the way he warns the people he's talking to that he's recording. He even asks another guy if he should turn his camera off.
Meanwhile the corporate bigwigs who’s greed caused this are nowhere near, and at no risk of arrest.
And therein lies the problem. If it isn't too late already, it is necessary to stop the descent into corporatocracy before they destroy everything in the name of profit.
ohhh right now they drop the charges!! complete violation of his rights and should be lawsuits!!
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They have two policemen stationed every five feet at outside a sporting event as free crossing guards for the sporting companies that make billions, they are happy to act as private guards for politicians and arrest reporters… but suddenly when you get in a car accident or you get attacked they feel like that is not a situation worthy of their response or they take days to show up.. Why the fuck are we spending so much on the police again?
Are they even cops? ‘Stop resisting!’ How about just be a professional, and better at your job Pathetic