Photojournalist Tyson Zoltan Heder beaten and detained by LAPD at Occupy Los Angeles

Photojournalist Tyson Zoltan Heder, who was photographing the events of Occupy Los Angeles and the LAPD evicting the protesters, was beaten by the police and had his camera taken, and then he was detained and charged with "assault", and at the time of uploading this video he remains in police custody. Watch the video and see if you can see anyone doing any "assault" to anyone else. I'll give you a hint: Tyson isn't the perpetrator of any assault, he's the one who GETS assaulted.

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Video courtesy of KCAL, CBS affiliate in Los Angeles (videos of this incident keep getting taken off YouTube and off their website so hopefully this won't get taken down, but this video is needed as evidence of police brutality and Tyson Zoltan Heder's innocence so I certainly have no plans of taking it down, this is fair use under copyright law and it is also legal evidence so anyone who tries to get me to take this video down is trying to destroy evidence).

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[discarted]

The narrator says the guy fell down stairs. Seriously, you're a journalist?

The real story is that the guy was shoved to the ground by an very aggressive LAPD for exercising his First Amendment rights. He is then arrested because he's angry about being violently attacked by LAPD and starts asking the officer for his name.

You really can't trust the MSM.

[beaniegrl420]

20 or 30 seconds extra footage, arrest or no arrest. There was no reason for the cop to incite aggressive physical contact if he wasn't going to detain the man to begin with.

LAPD has shown this in excess during the many arrests they've dealt with. This is revolting. Truth be told, if some cop started it, I'd fight back too (I don't care if you think that's stupid. That's adrenaline). In any other realm that action would have gotten the cop arrested.

[Sean kelly]

The American people are the biggest pussies in the world for letting the police get by with this shit.

[newyorkcat]

Look, if the police tell you to move or get out of the street, you have to do it -- you're not going to win. You can fight it in court later, if you have some injuries to show for it you might get some sort of settlement from the city but this all pre-supposes you have a lot of time on your hands, even if you are getting some sort of free representation. Ambulance-chasing lawyers will of course encourage people to do this. It's a stupid use of your time.

[Simas J.]

Where did I saw similar scene? Aaaa, remembered - Minsk. Or belarusians were more polite with protesters?

[AOFOsuarezj7]

@moicer1 You sure are an idiot, there are alot better and more professional ways of handling this, he is a reporter/journalist and has all rights to document what happens ever heard of freedom of information? Probably not it's dying ever so slowly in this nation. If the cops needed to see credentials all they had to do was ask, he had no reason to with hold that kind of info. He was arrested for asking the cop his name ie his badge number which is totally fine except in communist Amerika now, g

[moicer1]

He had this coming. Your average citizen would comply and leave the area like many people did. There is always more than one that has to be different and defy or simply challenge the police. This is what happens when you show some resistance you get tackled by the police. Shame on him he should of left when asked. If he was truly a journalist or a reporter where the heck was his credentials, there normally hung around the neck and visibly seen.

[gregsdiary]

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[gregsdiary]

Instead of shedding light on what's happening in our society today's embedded "journalists" are shutting off the lights.

[Elkapan]

"2. He assaulted the LAPD Officer by 'rushing' him when he was told to leave." So yes, you did say it. If a 'normal' would have got the hell out of there, then more to him, for standing up for his rights. We should all strive to be a little less 'normal' - otherwise we'll sleepwalk into a dictatorship. He was in a park - a public space - they're fighting against the erosion of public space, as we all should.You're an unthinking mouthpiece for fascism and you should stop with your slurs.

[lazypd3]

i didnt say he rushed anything. I said he got up and walked back towards the cop, yelling threats and pointing his finger and obviously not in control of his temper. ANY normal person would have got the hell out of there. Before this video started he had approached the officers yelling his shit and pointing his fingers and he was in a place where it is illegal for people to be. There is a dept. video of this. The people that want you to believe BS cut off the beginning of this video.

[Elkapan]

It's funny how you worded your points there. He 'rushed' the police officer, did he? I say he simply walked towards him, and in no way does that constitute 'assault', as you put it. He got 'pushed' away by the LAPD officer. I say he it was an unprovoked and violent attack by the officer, it's funny how that one isn't assault in your eyes. He gets up and 'assaults' the officer again, was they when he was simply standing there, and piled onto him like militant thugs? Nice spin though.