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  • Fuck cops

  • Amazing how many of these motherfucking "peace" officers are the violent instigators. That's why these fucking assholes don't want anyone to video what they're doing. There's WAY to many bad cops in this damn country. Scary as shit and disgusting.

  • This is America.....WHAT A SHAME the citizens of America should be.

  • Amy Goodman; the most un-fuckable woman in broadcasting.

  • Welcome to America, the fascist state disguised as democracy.

  • Re: Cops roughing up the female reporter

    When someone like a soldier or a cop uses excessive force in a situation like that it is nothing more than a cowardly act. Saying anything else, like they are sadistic, is giving them respect, albeit perverse, that they don't deserve.

  • TYT: "BOOYAA! You're gonna get paid then!"

    I usually like TYTs, but really?! REALLY?!!

    This is people loosing their 1st Amendment rights, and you joke it's all well and good as long as you'll get monetarily reimbursed?

    Spare me.

  • Terrorists tactic's by those who are sworn to protect are the same the world over But its those Politician's who sit at home in their own little palaces away from the bad shit and watch their law keepers kill democracy and free speech, trampled by those sworn to protect in an Iraq style dictatorship similar to Idi Amin and Hitler that piss me off. You go girl

  • why u wonna live in USA?????????

  • I love Cenk he's the greatest! but Amy Goodman she's my hero!! Seriously Amy Goodman is such an amazing woman.

  • Amy Goodman is a hero . Without citizens like her , we would be living under tyrannical martial law .

  • Typical republicans to do something like this! I'm ashamed to be American these days.

  • the cop kept saying "shutup, shutup."

    was his name o'reilly?

  • Take them to court. This is insanity. I like the fact that she went for her reporters and stood united with them, very commendable. Get cops names and badge numbers.

  • Study Luise L. Hay and the law of attraction!

  • nice, 10,000th view

  • do u mean KARMA?

  • Yep, we fight for our rights. We yell, we protest, we write our senators, and we vote. All to protect our right, and to stand up of the Constitution. And you're right, we get what we desire. FREEDOM!!

  • This is incredible. a reporter got mugged by the cops!!! The real question is: will the perpetrators (the cops that mugged her) get tried and convicted?

  • the mainstream media is a giant whore serving her corporate masters. But this journalist, Amy Goodman, and Cenk Uygar are part of the free press and they report the truth and have integrity.

  • i'm noy so sure about uygar, but goodman is the real thing.

  • its time to teach the police a lesson

    this is our country

  • Amy Goodman deserves respect along with TheYoungTurks!

    Much Respect

  • I like Goodman, Cenk is a whore. He thinks Obama is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  • I'm an anarchist thats my philosophy but i'm no crimminal or terroists and i dont like violence.

    Its a label to scare poeple who dont understand.

    I think Amy Goodman is an example to all real journalists its a shame the U.S has been dumbed down so much.

    We know Obama will be no different like she says he bows to the money, the U.S. has to get out of this corporate rut thats been cut for them

  • you know, the same thing happens in rogue states, countries which are not free such as iran & belarus

  • oh my god, america get the finger out and vote democrat

  • LOVE YOU AMY GOODMAN!!!

  • Home of the brave, land of the free .... America Wake Up!!!!

  • the cops don't exist to protect your rights. They exist to infringe upon them

  • THIS MALES ME MAD

  • You associate with a lot of different people fulfilling your responsibility as a member of the free press

  • press pass allows you to document events. she committed no crime. they inhibited free speech the most important of our rights.

    i got a question for you.

    what makes you think this couldn't happen to you.

  • I'd agree about her being 'notoriously in your face.' She's publicising herself through her arrest too much...and is monopolising this interview. Although she's chief host of a small media, I don't think she's that modest.

    However, DemocracyNow's a good show.

  • Free Speech must be protected. A peaceful demonstration is part of the American process. The Press is part of that and they must be allowed to work (whether or not I agree with their viewpoint).

    This is the Land of the Free! We must not give up our freedoms. We must protect them. AND we must protect the freedoms of those with whom we disagree.

    "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

  • POLICE STATE IS HEAR!!

  • Finally, the Republican dream: a police state.

  • The chess pieces are almost all in place now. Example, this vid, asperatame, fluoride and did you know, some vacinations still have Thimerosal in them? It's 49% mercury. That makes people stupid(er). Google it.

    and

    For Our children and grandchildren, before you vote, take the 5 spaces out of the following documentary addy and watch,

    htt p://ww w. edgemediatv. com/article001_icke. html

  • the USA are turning into a modern roman empire

  • I really like Cenk but sometimes he pisses me off. He acts as if everything is a joke. If you watch Alex Jone's "POLICE STATE" then you will realize that anarchists are employed by the government to discredit those who try to have peaceful protests. If you notice, the police sit back and let the anarchists do what they want without rushing in and arresting them immediately yet they break up the peaceful protests at the drop of a dime over nothing.

  • no one said she broke the law. you've overlooked habias corpus & the bill of rights.

  • All of this due to the PATRIOT ACT...how irronic. Face it folks, your criminal government is now beginning to implement the final stages of their coup against the american people. They have been conditioning you for their police state for ages. FEMA CAMPS are being made specifically for you. Those of you who fight the powers that be will be classified as "domestic terrorists" and will be rounded and sent to these camps. There's a reason why the government hates "hippys" and "liberals" THEY READ.

  • WELCOME TO AMERICA!!

  • The US has an enormous corruption problem. 1. Corporate lobyists, 2. The cost of elections 3. The media. This would not fly in our country at all.

  • Agreed 'Moviedrive'! "The US has an enormous corruption problem": 1) Corporate lobbyists. 2) The cost of elections. 3) The media.

    Voting Obama or McCain = The Same!

    The MAJOR Media Outlets NBC, CBS, ABC & FOX reluctantr giving Ralph Nader airtime, even to mention his name...don't really want change.

    They just want a Black Man they are NOT 'really' listening to, get elected this time so America will not look "Racist".

    Vote Nader/Gonzalez 2008! It's "REAL Change We Can Believe In!"

  • Fox is paying for the arrest of democratic journalists ? Media wars?

  • We are NOT a democratic society.... We are SUPPOSED TO BE A REPUBLIC but in fact we are NEITHER. What we have is an OLIGARCH! Fight the NWO! Write in Ron Paul 2008! Let them count how many are against them! If you vote for either Obama or McCain, you vote for the NWO.

  • Every CITIZEN needs to go MARCH ON THEIR POLICE STATIONS and retain lawyers for a mass class action law suit against EVERY LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY INVOLVED!

  • George Bush condones this, "the constitution is just a piece of paper" our civil liberties are being taken away every day and we don't even know it, what they did in some ways is legal based on current law.

  • Truly a sick police force in the country.

  • AG a national treasure...I pray that she sues the shit out of them

  • Damn i thought she was reporting her experience in another totalitarian country. I hope they sue the police depatment for millions. Watch justice in progress as the video footage is 'lost' by the police.

  • Democracy Now supports the likes of Joe Biden. Joe Biden is the founder of VAWA which violates the 14th amendment ( Due Process and Equal Protection). VAWA is commonly used to facilitate VAWA based immigration fraud. Under VAWA a man can be arrested and denied due process with an immigration motivated accusation alone. Now Amy is wining about her constitutional rights with her new found criminal record and preference for selective justice for some instead of justice for all.

  • Immigration? WTF are you talking about? VAWA is simply protecting women who otherwise would have a hard time getting justice.

  • What police really hate (at least in the UK) is official complaints. Over here we have the Independent Police Complaints Commission ; I can tell you individual police and whole departments actually fear the reprisal which can come from written complaints backed with names, numbers and evidence. I don't expect the secret service are going to furnish you with that though, America probably ain't the same either, but in the UK this is the soft underbelly of the police, who 'normally' are ok

  • Amy Goodman has balls! She sticks it to the man!

  • That just sounds...wrong. lol

  • you should reasd her 2004 book!

  • This is insane

  • Nazi America showing democracy in action,amazing .

  • They aren't law enforcement. They're thugs.

  • Un-friggen-believable. It would be nice to have our country back. This never happens at Dem conventions does it?

  • We all are really close to same issues. We want law and order. When the police, city officials, government officials from any branch or the people break those laws, or liberties it is an outrage. We must come together and demand our liberties. A great (flawed) man once said "if you give up your liberties for security you deserve neither." B. Franklin. Not to mention everyone if they devide the people they conquer the people. We are powerful together!

  • So true! I'm majoring in criminal justice and watched the original video with Ms Goodman and I didn't see what she did wrong. I would have gone about things in a different way but since she didn't I just don't see why she was arrested. I hope she does press charges against what happened to her and her colleague(s). Especially since one of them apparently was hurt enough to need the hospital.

  • Watch Amy Goodman speaks about her arrest. There is also a video on her questioning, I believe, the Sheriffs department Amy is brilliant She is not about to let these charges go unnoticed I was one of the hundreds of people that called the Sheriffs department and demanded that ALL journalists be released and the Mayors office to investigate his police department.Let the agencies know that #1 The entire world is watching and #2 the American people will hold them responsible. Demand your liberties

  • Now Amy Freeman knows how the rest of us feel we got no right and she don't either maybe she will lead in our campaign for liberty stranger thing have happen

  • Her name is Amy Goodman. You should see some of her interviews on DemocracyNow. She's always understood it.

  • She has been arrested before due to her practiceing her civil liberties...it's called the 1st Amendment...you know...Freedom of Speech. She is very courageous. When was last time you spoke out for OUR liberties? Amy will do it for you will you do it for her?

  • there had better be hearings or something, the Secret Service are becoming like the freakin Gestapo, and when they step in, your rights are just plain gone.

    Are they protecting the country, or protecting the powerful from the common people?

  • Suing the government for tax payer money over this stuff doesn't hack it. It irks me to no end when the ACLU gloats over a "victory" like that. You need to sue the cops, Federal agents, and their supervisors personally. They need to learn that a badge is not a license to break the law with impunity. This stuff will not stop until the cops take personal responsibility to obey the law.

  • Hmm. The organizations are responsible too. The individuals should possibly face criminal prosecution in addition to being sued.

  • Yes, the organizations are responsible. But the organizations only have tax payers' money. They must not be allowed to continue to harass reporters, then get off the hook by later paying the reporters out of the public coffers.

  • Not to mention the Secret service and ICE are there. If this is what our tax payer dollars are going for, that and an illegal war, maybe we should hurt them where it will hurt the most. Stop paying taxes. Scary stuff people.

  • "the constitution is only a piece of paper" -George W. Bush...

    John McCain has approved of Bush 90% of the time, throughout the last 8 years our civil liberties have been dissipating due to the Bush administration. WHY would you vote for McCain, this country might turn into the Nazi party if we continue with conservatives running it.

  • I waiting for the illegal private (US Government Funded) Blackwater soldiers to show up!

    vote Nader/Gonzalez!

  • "Well, Booya, you're gonna get paid then. Let's go get em" lol... i love it.

  • This is soooooo crazy.

    I guess your name tag should have said "Fox News" and you would have been fine.

  • @Bellita1: how did she not obey the law? You people are morons. What law are you people living by where you can't execute the First Amendment? What country is that where policemen, beat up reporters with reporters IDs. Answer this and I'll shut up!

  • be careful belittle1IQ...oh I mean Bellita1...karma can be like a boomarang. Good luck with that positive solution.

  • Simple: GOP/gov dictate to cops that they will silence protests/reporters by intimidation. Police dept Higherups get paid off, then use taxpayer money to pay off litigation.

    We are paying republican tools to violate the constitution and civil rights.

    What to do:

    Increase all fines

    Make cops personally $ liable

    All lose their jobs

    All get jail time

    Commanders $ liable for orders

  • typical persecution of intellectuals....

  • That's fucking lame, I had to stop watching at about 4:45; I am ashamed of my state's police. I hope those assholes lose their jobs.  I suppose that is what everyone talks about in L.A., Save your brutality for real criminals!

  • in my heart I want to believe cops are the greatest but when I see videos of stuff like this where the person did NOTHING wrong, I can't help but hate them. The Bush administration has changed the laws to allow the cops to do stuff like this to people and it's legal. "Do whatever is necessary..." George W. Bush when talking about fighting against terrorism. which means take away people civil liberties in order to maintain order and get the bad people... not terrorist... bad people.

  • FUCK THE POLICE

  • Her first mistake was thinking she can reason with the cops, hell, any cop.

  • Way to lump everyone together. Usually you can but in situations like this sometimes cops, at least the officer dealing with Ms Goodman, have zero tolerance. The best thing to do is to cooperate and don't say anything (Miranda rights says you don't have to) and to call a lawyer asap.

  • Yeah, I'll agree with you there about what to do now that she's been arrested.

    But my criticism has more to do with her running to the cops in the first place. They definitely had a zero tolerance policy, hence the futility of trying to reason with them.

  • Well, she'd head they were roughed up. Plus, she must have thought they'd try to retain them for days just like in NYC. She was trying to intervene before they were hauled away.

  • China is turning into USA. And USA is turning into China.

  • shameless

    This aggression will not stand man.

  • just a question.........were there protesters and arrests at the DNC? I can't find anything....

  • Yes there was just YT peaceful protest DNC

  • Yes there were protesters and arrests at the DNC... There are some videos of this on my favorites.

  • This interview should be tagged to the video of her being arrested. It would be much more helpful in telling the story.

  • Big corporations rule the world. It sucks

  • Republicans love stormtroopers.

  • This is the EXACT stuff that Naomi Wolfe talks about in her book "The End of America," everybody should read this book. EVERYTHING that Amy is speaking of is detailed and prophesized in that book

  • Free press is the "enemy combatant" to fascism.

  • let the charge stand and fight it, not ask it to be drop, stand up

  • "TheYoungTurks" thanks for this interview

    made sure you remind Amy Goodman to see a doctor and document her injuries and get a lawyer. she needs to file a civil lawsuit

  • second that

  • Wow, and you think what happened during the Olympics in China with the protesters and journalists was bad.

  • this is exactly what the fascist regime of Iran dose to the journalist

    send a copy of this to Condi Rice who is always talking about bring her new world order to the middle east

  • After hearing Amy's side I agree it was mistreatment...but..you still blew little peon me off after I asked to be on your show talking about how I was squashed after whistle blowing while on Active Duty Army...so, again, I'm not as sympathetic because you pompous-assed me personally.

    Doc from New York

  • why don't you just make a video on youtube and post it.

    You should just tell the story

  • She probably gets millions of requests to be on her show.

  • Why Amy do YOU supress stories like mine? I blew the whistle and the guy who squashed me ultimately was the guy booted because of Walter Reed....why isn't that worthy of your show????

  • After hearing Amy's side I agree it was mistreatment...but..you still blew little peon me off after I asked to be on your show talking about how I was squashed after whistle blowing while on Active Duty Army...so, again, I'm not as sympathetic because you pompous-assed me personally.

    Doc from New York

  • wow what a disaster this was..she wouldn't hurt a fly..please get the petitions of my page to impeach the cabal..type in 1 million impeach and forward and bobb barr bill of rights too..disgusting..

  • Atrocious extralegal behavior of the police. All commanders should be fired. Premeditated violation of the constitution. Unbelievable.

  • sue them amy

  • nice work

  • Good interview Cenk! This police action was done to stop freedom of the press, to keep people scared and intimidated from speaking out.

  • To me the worst part of what happened in this is what happened here on Youtube (and still ongoing).

    I dont know how many of you saw it but there is/was a huge crowd of disgusting republican/neocon trolls who posted over and over and over and over again how fucking happy they are that this happened.

    It's like they ACTUALLY happy when the press is outright attacked.

    I love freedom of the press and I would be just as outraged if this shit happened to Michelle Malkin as Amy Goodman.

  • Write the check MN, You didn't need new schools did you?

  • nader all the way

  • This is a blatant violation of Constitutional Rights.  I hope Free Speech TV takes a case to the Supreme Court. They'll win.

  • Fool

  • police have lost the value of protect and serve and instead have been using power and control. our voices will be heard. we have to say it louder.

  • in 1992, during the L.A. riots, George Bush Sr. implemented Martial Law for L.A. with a special clause built in that allowed him to extend it to every state. Look at the flags- if it has a yellow or gold tassle that goes on three edges, then it is a military flag and we are under martial law. Look at the courtroom flags, if they have it, you have no rights under the constitution, like a foreign nation. peace to all... wake up america 'endgame' will explain everything

  • If the government wasn't totally corrupted there wouldn't be protests. Think about it. If everything was fine at the top the people at the bottom would be happy. they wouldn't be screaming at the tops of the voice's stop taxing us to death, stop poisoning us, stop killing millions around the globe, stop lying to us.

  • its a police state cops are staging attacks wake up

  • Oh give me a break! You are the one who needs to wake up. These cops who did this need to be punished and charged... but calling the US a police state??? Yes it is getting pretty bad because of the Republicans, and this kind of thing should never happen, but how are all cops evil?

  • "but how are all cops evil? "

    Think about it like this the guards at the Nazi concentration camps where just following orders, too, orders they knew where wrong, just like these cops know what they are doing is wrong, when you have power over others and misuse it to abuse others, you're evil.

  • It's a police state, free speech is allowed but it won't make the CiaNN FIXed News on the Tell Lie Vision.

    This treatment is a feeler. If enough don't rise up in protest they will take this as compliance and take it to the next level.

  • "a day might come an ordinary people get pissed off and start to get armed and police will be running like a chicken shit "

    As long as the daily necessities are met, no one will.

    That is the reality. The majority does not worry what will happen in the future.

    Whether the state will completely take over their lives.

    Will this lead to a 1984 society? I don't know.

    Maybe mass democracy and capitalism does not last too long.

    People stop thinking and the state takes over.

  • AMY ROX! Free press!!! What's happening to our press and people is a disgrace.

  • never ever talk to a cop

  • heil hitler

  • a day might come an ordinary people get pissed off and start to get armed and police will be running like a chicken shit

  • I seriously doubt that.

  • Wake up people. Republicans are NOT Americans. They work actively against us. They will happily destroy this country if don't stop them. Lets stand up together and take those bastards out.

  • As shown in the G8 protests in Ottawa, Canada. Police put people in protests and incite violent behavior so the police can move in.

    Likely those garbage fires and window breaking's were done by police.

    Sad state of affairs the US is in.

  • It seems so easy to get arrested in the US. In most places in Europe, an arrest is a big deal and officers need just cause to execute one. They also get in trouble afterwards, if the arrest is deemed illegal by courts.

  • very true... When Ross Kemp visited the US during his white supremest gang documentary he said that police in Europe wouldn't get away with the stuff they did here.

  • arngre - here in the US you need probable cause - unfortunately, not too much will happen if the arrest is not legal. All that will happen is that the charges will not stick. That does not matter to them, though, because they just want to terrify people and "clear the streets". There may be an investigation in the Police Department, but they usually get away scott-free by the police "investigation." They have an unspoken code of silence - an officer will not speak out against other police.

  • I feel you brother - but I mean probable cause FOR REAL, I mean officers restraining themselves BEFORE an arrest happens. I know that probable cause is written into both local and federal laws, it just doesn't seem to matter these days.

  • ^ Stupidest comment of the day ^

    What does that matter?

  • Excellent interview. I'm really glad you brought up the FISA flip flop.

  • This is gonna Become a Popular video!

  • police have a job folks protect ur rights against police abuse but they hide it ,they murder kids and children ,they rip life's apart and never ever do anything wrong ,ever! cops have never ever broke a law ever ,how the fuck is it possibly that only cops have never broke a single law, how can 100,000 of people from one group never ever break the law ,its because they have a brotherhood who will kill anyone who exposes them ,cops are by nature evil

  • it was expected. Protesrors are just gonna be despanded protestors should expect that.

  • No, in a country where protesters are guaranteed the right to peaceably assemble, they should not EXPECT to be "despanded" (sic). Even if some of the protesters get out of hand, you arrest THOSE protesters, you don't break out tear gas and rubber bullets and start arresting the press.

    If there's any justice, these men will lose their badges. I'm not optimistic.

  • Fucking police state bullshit. Those damn cops should have got what they were expecting.

  • all you need is a GED to become a cop. are you so surprised?

  • by the way, as has been mentioned numerous times on youtube and the internet. POLICE BRUTALITY IS REAL. The fact that finally white people are experiencing it, now with such abandonment, you can all now fully appreciate and comprehend. I know Right wing nutjob republicans will say oh well they deserved it. Guess what dumbasses your asses are next. You think once the crazy neo cons have complete power they wont come after you. Your're the idiots that encourage it, you'll get it next.

  • Sounds like the NYPD sent some of their boys down to St. Paul. Down on the ground liberal!!!! Consider yourselves even lucky they weren't on bikes, they would've been nose tackled and beaten to the ground.

  • Since when are Journalists treated as violent criminals?? This is madness!

    And they made a big deal about the DNC secret jail?!

  • some cops are such tools

  • it is sad to see the state that things in the us are degrading too, i hope things don't get like this in Canada. i do wish the police would get criminal chargers laid on them for this, but i don't think that it will happen, just dropping the charges is a joke judges need to hold people accountable even police for there actions

  • Amy Goodman...true american hero of the 1st

    amendment. Your the greatest Amy. Oh yeah Cenk...good job.

  • This is a blatant example of the Republicans not giving a damn about the Bill of Rights and Constitution. How can the police arrest and charge reporters for doing their job?

  • Is this the 'freedom' the troops are fighting for?

  • more like Democracy Where????

  • It sounds like some higher ups are using police to stifle dissent. I bet all of the "charges" are dropped after the convention is over. If anything it's a sign of how paranoid the Republicans are about their chances of winning.

  • I wander what our founding fathers would think about what America has become?

  • i was asking myself that exact question while watching this video..

  • Amy, the commanding officer knows who you were and who your reporters were thats WHY they moved in on you.

  • if it were rush Limbaugh, they wouldn't have done shit.