TYSON HEDER, PHOTOJOURNALIST MAULED BY LAPD, STILL IN JAIL AFTER OCCUPY L.A. RAID

According to the City Attorney's Office, Tyson Heder (or Header, as the City Attorney spells it), was just arraigned. Of the 20 protesters who have been charged so far, only Heder has charges that extend beyond "failure to disperse." Here they are: "Tyson Header, during the operation, spit on an Officer and resisted arrest. Defendant Header was charged with three counts: Battery on a Peace Officer, Assault on a Peace Officer, and Resisting Arrest."
City Attorney Carmen Trutanich is notoriously harsh on protesters. (And street artists, but that's another story.) We didn't see any spitting in the video, but the mauling was such a blur, it's hard to say.
Along with one City News Service reporter and indie journalist Yasha Levine -- and about 300 other protesters -- a freelance L.A. photographer named Tyson Heder was taken into police custody at the Occupy L.A. eviction on Wednesday night.
That's exactly what LAPD officials warned would happen to any reporter outside the exclusive media pool selected the night before.
The difference with Heder's arrest is that the young photojournalist (here's his music video blog) was shoved to the ground by one LAPD officer, then mauled by three others. He was documenting their tear-down of one of Occupy's tent structures, looking into the viewfinder, when he was thrown onto the ground and wrestled into submission by cops.
Other key difference: There's video. (The footage belongs to CBS, who keeps removing it from YouTube, and even from the news company's own website, for some reason.) - 1 December 2011.

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[bigoen]

Anybody noticed he (the assaulter) is a sergeant! I smell law suit..............good luck! I'll post it!

[garrethdavis]

such freedom.

[ronpolkthedirector]

They had better be able to prove that he spit on them because it doesn't look like he was a physical threat to the many officers who initally pushed him to the ground.

[Way2Kool7Deuce]

We need to just educate the police because they are obviously doing unconstitutional orders. We need them on the peoples side and not the corporations side. God help us all in these trying times!