UC Santa Barbara Police try to disrupt Cop Watch Event

Cop Watch L.A. was invited by student organizers at University of California Santa Barbara's Congreso and Students for Justice in Palestine to help facilitate a discussion on Thursday Novemenber 11, 2010.

UCSB Police Department tried to disrupt event and kicked out by the organizers.

They were there, they said, to answer any concerns of students, because Cop Watch has never gone to the police to ride along with them or to work with them.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• police harassment
• police intimidation
• copwatch
• cop watch los angeles
• congreso
• sjp

[joaquincienfuegos]

adlib here*

"i'm a big bald cop"

...

"and i'm his friend, i have a napoleon complex"

"cop watch is bad um'kay"

"cops are good"

the homie, "get the fuck out!"

what they were actually saying was that they were there to "answer questions" and that Cop Watch has never gone on a real ride along with the police, so we don't know what we're talking about, blah blah blah

in reality, we have gone on too m...any ride-alongs with them, in the back seat in hand cuffs, on the way to the police station

[VCArise]

audio?

[joaquincienfuegos]

@VCArise

sorry i don't know why it didn't pick up the audio when i filmed this from my phone

[niceguy1060]

TYRANNY= AMERICAN SPRING 2012

[fullmetalfacemelt]

@joaquincienfuegos do you still have the original file? maybe something got messed up when you uploaded it

[snozberries]

What I saw was two officers engaged in a civil conversation. No one appeared angry, the person they were talking didn't appear distressed or upset...Hell at the end the officer and guy they were talking to shook hands....so why the hate?

[ThaiTyBeta]

1year, ( this is just 1 example out of thousand ive personaqly witnessed in sb on halloween after last 8 or so in a row) but had freionds arrive from nor cal were in town 10 minutes walking down street dp not single drop alcohol consumed ( yet) no containers open nor closed, and 1 freind out of 5 targeted no reason arrested charges "open container" he had no container none us did open or otherwise, and next freind says"you cant do that he diditn do anything" arrested him too! 2 falsearest10min

[ThaiTyBeta]

you will not see more false arrests more violations of rights, more b s illegal police conduct like abuse false arrests etc then you will see in isla vista dp sb particularly any party night like halloween, its a fund raiser for them they make fortune in petty b s charges knowing full well 99% them plead guilty over phone pay with credit card WARNING never be in public or streets without numorous witnesses and numorous video cameras! it WILL happen here, not a "if" just a "when!!

[glatkay]

no point to a silent film

[fmnma1]

@RHallman321

Yeah, this dude wimped out - probably read to many stories where cops are putting this bullshite wiretapping charges on citizens. However, there is a case in Boston where the police arrested an attorney for this, oops. That attorney filed suit on them, of which the officers tried to claim immunity. The federal court of appeals denied their request. If he wins, that is significant, and can then be used as case law. Maybe then the police will stop breaking our civil liberties.

[RHallman321]

DON'T POST A VIDEO IF IT HAS NO AUDIO AND THE AUDIO IS CRUCIAL IN UNDERSTANDING WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE DAMN VIDEO!!!! COMMON SENSE!! WELL, APPARENTLY NOT... NEXT TIME EITHER ADD SUBTITLES TO THE BEST OF YOUR MEMORY OR BETTER LUCK CAPTURING SOME AUDIO NEXT TIME!.... BUT DON'T POST SOMETHING NOBODY WILL UNDERSTAND!!!! DUH!!!!

[Novantii]

@joaquincienfuegos

You just used the word "homie". That says it all.