How do you know you were legally in the street? All U.S. citizens in the U.S. have the freedom of the press, why do you need credentials for a constitutional right in a public place?
Were you wearing your federal required reflective vest? Under federal law any individual working "within the right-of-way of a road who are exposed either to traffic (vehicles using the highway for purposes of travel) or to construction equipment within the work area shall wear high-visibility safety apparel.
If you're saying that if the police block traffic to arrest someone, you have to film from the sidewalk on an otherwise shut-down street, I would ask if you're condoning the same limited-press-access thoughts of the 'media pool' in the 'designated press area' from LA - where they could see nothing - Or the grounding of the helicopters in NYC during Zucotti evictions and the N17 march. Our first amendment grants us a free press, not a free press for what the government tells us to report.
I don't understand how people couldn't see the problem with this.
The cops have blocked off traffic - You can see their cars, it's cordoned off. They're arresting a person out of sight - a public act the media should be able to record. There's nothing unsafe or additionally inconveniencing of his entering the street, and presumably, once the protester was arrested, media would have pushed back to the sidewalk before the officer's cars resume flow.
@RufusDarkstar When police tell a group of people they are doing an unlawful protest and that the police are going to start arresting people if they don't move you should move off the streets. When police start arresting people who are on the streets you should not get on the streets because you will be arrested. He was on the sidewalk the whole time why was it so important to get the arrest from the street when he could have easly done it from the side walk?
Hot Damn, I hope RodentDave got arrested by the police last night. One thing for sure, he knows a lot about crossing back and forth in a drunken stupor!
The most telling thing is is nothing to do with being in the street but that when told the person was a journalist the police officer replied "I don't care!" not something like "bullshit" or "yeah, yeah, right buddy!" but "I don't care!" That says it all
Listen, you blocked the street, on a busy night in Nashville. Are ya'll a bunch of drama seekers or what? Did you expect the cops to allow you to block the road and shut down a public street. I'm glad they removed you and your cohorts traffic is bad enough. Stick to legislative plaza and your press badge no more gives you the right to violate the law than some coppers badge gives him that right.
@Drogobaggins people get in the street all the time crossing back and forth in a drunken stupor. When told to get on the sidewalk theycomplied but the police still grabbed some who hadn't and couldn't get on the sidewalk due to the press of the crowd.
@TANG3LLO He is not telling you it is illeagal to walk in the streets he is saying that it is illegal to be impeading traffic and your press badge does not give you the right to brake the law. Could you have not have done the same thing from the sidewalk? Why did you have to be in the streets. Its your job to report the news not to be a part of it.
@DeathofSpeech the protesters were told they have to disperseit is not them protesting it is the fact that they are in the road if they were simply on the sidewalk nothing would have happento anyone having a news badge does not mean you can brake the law also I don't have to show you anything it is against the law to protest in the streets that is risky known prove to me that he had to be in the street
@DeathofSpeech I didn't read that where did you see that if a person breaks into your house and they say its ok I'm a realtor are you going to allow them to stay the right of one can not stop the rights of others
@DeathofSpeech do you not see the traffic that was going. a bus was theretwo taxis there one had to be the side walk. Like I said having a press badge does not mean you can brake the law
@popemobil74 but a drunk woman went into the middle of the road in oncoming traffic to flip birds at the protestors and nothing was done or even said to her. Fair?
@RoninDave really? I didn't see that at all where did you see that? also was she just there to flip the bird then leave our did she stay for along time? Did she disobey police order to disperse?
@popemobil74 watch?v=12hLUNaDoP4 you can see right here where the woman stood longer than the reporter did in the street and later several guys crossed the street mid-traffic without so much as a warning
@RoninDave I watched it and I do agree that they should have stopped her however she wasnt in the street that long and there were no cars she was stopping to do what she was doing but yes they should have stopped her. As for the people crossing the streets that is all they were doing was crossing they were not in the middle of the street protesting and stopping traffic for an extended period of time. Many people do that every night.
@DeathofSpeech It is common practice to take people in to the jail then release them before booking them. It is most commonly used for minors. The way he explains what happens here sounds like the officer does not believe he is with the media. It is law that says you can not protest in the streets. When police tell people they are going to start srresting people in the streets for unlawful protest and you walk out in the street you are going to be arrested no matter if your media or not.
"It is common practice to take people in to the jail then release them before booking them."
Please cite police policy in which capricious arrest is "common practice."
So you're saying that he committed no crime. If he had committed a crime then they were obliged to book him. They didn't. Ergo, your assertion is invalid. The CO required his release based upon his press credentials which did not magically become more valid before his release.
2 things: 1) Check his press badge and make sure it is valid or 2) remove him from the situation for officer safety. Do I think he was singled out because he is press no I don't do i think that the only reason he was arrested was because he was in the streets yes you also have to remember that he is a part of the movement as well he even host the radio show so is he really there to document the protest or be a part of theprotest
@popemobil74 Mom & Grandma, that’s your comeback? You fucking suck at comebacks. You won’t survive the high rise in Vaseline prices you fucked AMERICUNT.
@biorgymd wow you really are an idiot. 1) it is gasoline the rising prices of gasoline 2) the price is dropping 3) America does not control how much it charges for gas we get most our gas from the middle east so what ever they charge we pay and then the price of gas goes up. 4) you used the same insult in both post and its not even clever. I'm proud to be am American and if you hate America then get out.
@popemobil74 You’re not an American, you’re an Americunt. In case you haven’t noticed you no longer live in America, you live in the HOMELAND. I actually got out of Fascist AMERIKA sometime back, I live in Switzerland, a real free county. Here we have an annually “Hide Your Gun Day”, where we are required to participate in dismantling and hiding our guns from people like AMERICUNTS. Top that in your land of the free and home of the brave.
@biorgymd I am all for having a debate with you. However, if you are not grown up enough to actually have a debate then there is no point talking with a little kid. I think it is funny you think Switzerland is free. Hide your gun day? here we have display your gun day 365 days out of the year. I still live an America why don't you look at your country and relize that it sucks.
@biorgymd I could ask why but I am sure you would say something about my girlfriend or me being "AMERICUNT" sense that is the only insult you know. However, this argueing is stupid and I am done with it. Maybe when you grow up you can see that there is a way you can disagree with someone and debate with them without having to try and insult them to get a reaction out of them.
@popemobil74 Oh and one last thing, the reference above about the high rise in Vaseline Prices had nothing to do with gasoline, but being the stupid AMERIKAN AMERICUNT that you are I shouldn’t have expected otherwise. It was actually a reference to you being Pig Fisted in the ass by your Gestapo, I would think that someone who is Pig Fisted in the ass as much as you that it would require a lot of Vaseline…
I'm confused. How does a press pass allow you to circumvent the law? You should have had the same citation they had. You could have reported just as well from the sidewalk without becoming the news, which is frankly all you seem to have been trying to do here.
How do you know you were legally in the street? All U.S. citizens in the U.S. have the freedom of the press, why do you need credentials for a constitutional right in a public place?
Were you wearing your federal required reflective vest? Under federal law any individual working "within the right-of-way of a road who are exposed either to traffic (vehicles using the highway for purposes of travel) or to construction equipment within the work area shall wear high-visibility safety apparel.
barkerbox 2 months ago
This officer must be fired. He is violating a constitutional right ! ! !
ronphlf 2 months ago
@ TANG3LLO. You should post Matt Evans phone number and contact information so that "We The People" can start a call flood.
biorgymd 2 months ago
If you're saying that if the police block traffic to arrest someone, you have to film from the sidewalk on an otherwise shut-down street, I would ask if you're condoning the same limited-press-access thoughts of the 'media pool' in the 'designated press area' from LA - where they could see nothing - Or the grounding of the helicopters in NYC during Zucotti evictions and the N17 march. Our first amendment grants us a free press, not a free press for what the government tells us to report.
RufusDarkstar 2 months ago
I don't understand how people couldn't see the problem with this.
The cops have blocked off traffic - You can see their cars, it's cordoned off. They're arresting a person out of sight - a public act the media should be able to record. There's nothing unsafe or additionally inconveniencing of his entering the street, and presumably, once the protester was arrested, media would have pushed back to the sidewalk before the officer's cars resume flow.
RufusDarkstar 2 months ago
@RufusDarkstar When police tell a group of people they are doing an unlawful protest and that the police are going to start arresting people if they don't move you should move off the streets. When police start arresting people who are on the streets you should not get on the streets because you will be arrested. He was on the sidewalk the whole time why was it so important to get the arrest from the street when he could have easly done it from the side walk?
popemobil74 2 months ago
Hot Damn, I hope RodentDave got arrested by the police last night. One thing for sure, he knows a lot about crossing back and forth in a drunken stupor!
BaldBerlitzBoy 2 months ago 3
The most telling thing is is nothing to do with being in the street but that when told the person was a journalist the police officer replied "I don't care!" not something like "bullshit" or "yeah, yeah, right buddy!" but "I don't care!" That says it all
RoninDave 2 months ago
Listen, you blocked the street, on a busy night in Nashville. Are ya'll a bunch of drama seekers or what? Did you expect the cops to allow you to block the road and shut down a public street. I'm glad they removed you and your cohorts traffic is bad enough. Stick to legislative plaza and your press badge no more gives you the right to violate the law than some coppers badge gives him that right.
Drogobaggins 2 months ago
@Drogobaggins people get in the street all the time crossing back and forth in a drunken stupor. When told to get on the sidewalk theycomplied but the police still grabbed some who hadn't and couldn't get on the sidewalk due to the press of the crowd.
RoninDave 2 months ago
@Drogobaggins
I want to see this traffic you're talking about. It doesn't seem to be evident in this video.
If there had been a crime committed, then why was the individual released without charge?
Do you believe that a crime that results in arrest is a crime that demands prosecution or do you believe that people can just be arrested arbitrarily?
DeathofSpeech 2 months ago
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Drogobaggins 2 months ago
I have found out t
he hard way more than once. MPD plays real, real rough. Be glad you weren't hurt!
ndgoson 2 months ago
are you telling me its illegal to walk in the street Merennulli
TANG3LLO 2 months ago 3
@TANG3LLO He is not telling you it is illeagal to walk in the streets he is saying that it is illegal to be impeading traffic and your press badge does not give you the right to brake the law. Could you have not have done the same thing from the sidewalk? Why did you have to be in the streets. Its your job to report the news not to be a part of it.
popemobil74 2 months ago
@popemobil74
What traffic?
Doesn't look to me as if traffic is more than an excuse for police misbehavior.
Show me the crush of traffic you're talking about in this video.
DeathofSpeech 2 months ago
@DeathofSpeech the protesters were told they have to disperseit is not them protesting it is the fact that they are in the road if they were simply on the sidewalk nothing would have happento anyone having a news badge does not mean you can brake the law also I don't have to show you anything it is against the law to protest in the streets that is risky known prove to me that he had to be in the street
popemobil74 2 months ago
@popemobil74
Explain why he was released without being booked... and why the CO found the arrest invalid and unreasonable.
DeathofSpeech 2 months ago
@DeathofSpeech I didn't read that where did you see that if a person breaks into your house and they say its ok I'm a realtor are you going to allow them to stay the right of one can not stop the rights of others
popemobil74 2 months ago
@popemobil74
Punctuation is free and it reduces the need to decipher your intent. Please use some.
From what I think you mean... I'd ask you to show in this video where he abridges the rights of anyone else.
Then explain where this person broke into someone's house.
DeathofSpeech 2 months ago
@DeathofSpeech do you not see the traffic that was going. a bus was theretwo taxis there one had to be the side walk. Like I said having a press badge does not mean you can brake the law
popemobil74 2 months ago
@popemobil74 but a drunk woman went into the middle of the road in oncoming traffic to flip birds at the protestors and nothing was done or even said to her. Fair?
RoninDave 2 months ago
@RoninDave really? I didn't see that at all where did you see that? also was she just there to flip the bird then leave our did she stay for along time? Did she disobey police order to disperse?
popemobil74 2 months ago
@popemobil74 watch?v=12hLUNaDoP4 you can see right here where the woman stood longer than the reporter did in the street and later several guys crossed the street mid-traffic without so much as a warning
RoninDave 2 months ago
@RoninDave I watched it and I do agree that they should have stopped her however she wasnt in the street that long and there were no cars she was stopping to do what she was doing but yes they should have stopped her. As for the people crossing the streets that is all they were doing was crossing they were not in the middle of the street protesting and stopping traffic for an extended period of time. Many people do that every night.
popemobil74 2 months ago
@popemobil74
A bus and two taxis... is "traffic?"
I'll ask one more time... If he committed a crime why was he released priot to booking without charges?
Is enforcement of the law a matter of caprice now?
DeathofSpeech 2 months ago
@DeathofSpeech It is common practice to take people in to the jail then release them before booking them. It is most commonly used for minors. The way he explains what happens here sounds like the officer does not believe he is with the media. It is law that says you can not protest in the streets. When police tell people they are going to start srresting people in the streets for unlawful protest and you walk out in the street you are going to be arrested no matter if your media or not.
popemobil74 2 months ago
@popemobil74
"It is common practice to take people in to the jail then release them before booking them."
Please cite police policy in which capricious arrest is "common practice."
So you're saying that he committed no crime. If he had committed a crime then they were obliged to book him. They didn't. Ergo, your assertion is invalid. The CO required his release based upon his press credentials which did not magically become more valid before his release.
DeathofSpeech 2 months ago
@DeathofSpeech They took him to the jail to do 1 of
2 things: 1) Check his press badge and make sure it is valid or 2) remove him from the situation for officer safety. Do I think he was singled out because he is press no I don't do i think that the only reason he was arrested was because he was in the streets yes you also have to remember that he is a part of the movement as well he even host the radio show so is he really there to document the protest or be a part of theprotest
popemobil74 2 months ago
@popemobil74 Your a fucking AMERICUNT
biorgymd 2 months ago
@biorgymd wow nice did your mom help you come up with that one? My grandma can make better insults then you
popemobil74 2 months ago
@popemobil74 Mom & Grandma, that’s your comeback? You fucking suck at comebacks. You won’t survive the high rise in Vaseline prices you fucked AMERICUNT.
biorgymd 2 months ago
@biorgymd wow you really are an idiot. 1) it is gasoline the rising prices of gasoline 2) the price is dropping 3) America does not control how much it charges for gas we get most our gas from the middle east so what ever they charge we pay and then the price of gas goes up. 4) you used the same insult in both post and its not even clever. I'm proud to be am American and if you hate America then get out.
popemobil74 2 months ago
@popemobil74 You’re not an American, you’re an Americunt. In case you haven’t noticed you no longer live in America, you live in the HOMELAND. I actually got out of Fascist AMERIKA sometime back, I live in Switzerland, a real free county. Here we have an annually “Hide Your Gun Day”, where we are required to participate in dismantling and hiding our guns from people like AMERICUNTS. Top that in your land of the free and home of the brave.
biorgymd 2 months ago
@biorgymd I am all for having a debate with you. However, if you are not grown up enough to actually have a debate then there is no point talking with a little kid. I think it is funny you think Switzerland is free. Hide your gun day? here we have display your gun day 365 days out of the year. I still live an America why don't you look at your country and relize that it sucks.
popemobil74 2 months ago
@popemobil74 Just one question? If you could please enlighten me, is that you and your girlfriend in the Romancing Love video on your channel?
biorgymd 2 months ago
@biorgymd yea it is
popemobil74 2 months ago
@popemobil74 Perfect that explains everything.....
biorgymd 2 months ago
@biorgymd I could ask why but I am sure you would say something about my girlfriend or me being "AMERICUNT" sense that is the only insult you know. However, this argueing is stupid and I am done with it. Maybe when you grow up you can see that there is a way you can disagree with someone and debate with them without having to try and insult them to get a reaction out of them.
popemobil74 2 months ago
@popemobil74 Like I said, all makes sense now. How about this you and your girlfriend have a happy holiday season.
biorgymd 2 months ago
@popemobil74 Oh and PS: By the way, is English your 1st language, becasue you fucking suck at that to.
biorgymd 2 months ago
@popemobil74 Oh and one last thing, the reference above about the high rise in Vaseline Prices had nothing to do with gasoline, but being the stupid AMERIKAN AMERICUNT that you are I shouldn’t have expected otherwise. It was actually a reference to you being Pig Fisted in the ass by your Gestapo, I would think that someone who is Pig Fisted in the ass as much as you that it would require a lot of Vaseline…
biorgymd 2 months ago
I'm confused. How does a press pass allow you to circumvent the law? You should have had the same citation they had. You could have reported just as well from the sidewalk without becoming the news, which is frankly all you seem to have been trying to do here.
Merennulli 2 months ago