Phil Mocek arrested at ABQ (Albuquerque International Airport) TSA checkpoint 2009-11-15 14:34

See also: http://mocek.org/blog/2011/02/07/i-fought-the-law-and-the-law-lost-but/
Video recording made by Phil Mocek at Albuquerque International Airport, just outside the TSA barricade, on November 15, 2009, from approximately 2:34 p.m. - 2:38 p.m. Mountain time. This video (without the subtitles) was presented by the prosecution in State of New Mexico v. Phillip Mocek in the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court on January 20, 2011. After about an hour of deliberation, a jury found him not guilty of four misdemeanors with which he was charged.

More information about the case, including addresses for Mocek's legal defense fund (he's paying for this out-of-pocket), can be found in an FAQ maintained by The Identity Project at http://papersplease.org/wp/mocek

Audio of most of the trial is available for download or streaming on the Internet Archive. There is an index at http://papersplease.org/wp/2011/01/24/audio-state-of-new-mexico-v-phillip-mocek/

Visible and audible in the video are Mocek, Albuquerque Airport Police Department officers Robert F. "Bobby" Dilley (116), Landrow "Wiggy" Wiggins (137), and Julio A. De La Peña (135), and TSA staff LTSO Jonathon Breedon, TSM Gerald Romero, STSO Anthony M. Schreiner, Greg Martinez, and BDO Laura Moots.

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[ELconchesumare]

What happened sux. Humans are humans though, I don't care what type of training you get: lawyer, judge, cop or sports ref. When you act as an aggressive opponent, you make them treat you like it. I know you weren't yelling and weren't doing nothing major, but stuff like this makes people in "authority" position feel uncomfortable and they don't know how to react either than being drastic. I would've dropped the whole recording their faces and stuck to talking about the flight.

[pmocek]

@ELconchesumare At what point in the video do you think I acted "as an aggressive opponent"?

[TheDman216]

These rent a cops and police are insane..They just make chargers up to justify their power..Its really stupid..Just to let everybody know an albuquerque jury cleared phil mocek of all charges.So you dont have to show TSA id.

[pmocek]

@TheDman216 Those weren't rent-a-cops. They were security guards from the U.S. Transportation Security Administration and police officers from the Albuquerque Aviation Police Department.

[pmocek]

@DarthVil I was looking to get on the flight I purchased and fly home. The airport security guards and police caused trouble.

[ELconchesumare]

@Pafoofnik1 yeah, good for him for taking this one for the team. At the end of the day no charges will hold. But at that very moment you can never win. Police are mobsters.

[MrProfire]

Yay the Airport cops got to do something!!!!!

[phoenixzion82]

I thought an airport was private property?????



[phoenixzion82]

The police are causing the disturbance.

[AlexanderMazarakis]

Why do i get the feeling these guys hate their jobs.

[chandlchad1]

@jackie901 dumb ass

[chandlchad1]

@lawdog494 no i just read ur post below ur r right im sry about the dumb ass its the tsa that suck lol

[chandlchad1]

@chandlchad1 look at this dumb dumb

[chandlchad1]

@S2000F20CVTEC  ur a retard Phil Mocek did not have his ID with him at the airport, but his camera saved him . The bully TSA agents arrest him for "disturbing the peace", about 14 months later, just recently, a jury of found him NOT GUILTY!!

[chandlchad1]

@lawdog494  your a dumb ass

[luc59457]

@TheDman216 It is, there was no problem in recording them.. An authority/public figure(s) should have no problem being recorded, unless they have something(s) to hide. In this day in age they should be trained for those situations. Surely there must be cameras recording them their anyways, throughout the building. But it is his right to record authority, especially when he knows they are going to be oppressive and twist things around, nothing new.