Video: Jackass cop arrests reporter for no reason
posted at 5:55 pm on April 24, 2009 by Allahpundit
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To cleanse the palate, think of this as “the taser vid that wasn’t.” You know he wants to use the taser, you know he’s thinking of using the taser — but the reporter simply never gives him a pretext to do so. I’m almost disappointed: There’s no thread on HA so fun as when I post a clip of police misbehavior and a few commenters inevitably show up to defend the cop, no matter how horribly or moronically he’s acting.
I’m looking forward to finding out how this guy’s getting a bad rap. He was put on desk duty after the footage aired, you’ll be pleased to know.
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There are some cops who should be jailed. And this guy isn’t even one of the corrupt ones.
Dr. Manhattan on April 24, 2009 at 6:00 PM
The cop & reporter are both at fault. 60% cop. 40% reporter. Camera man was assaulted.
portlandon on April 24, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Is that Eric Estrado after 50 pounds???
Odie1941 on April 24, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Looks to me like a couple of ambulance chasers videotaping dead bodies hanging out of a car wreck. Wish he’d tazed them.
joe_doufu on April 24, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Ahhh, West Texas…watch out for the speed traps.
nor on April 24, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Ask a firefighter sometime…they know.
Dr. Manhattan on April 24, 2009 at 6:00 PM
“He can shoot if he wants to” may not be a good response to an officer telling you to clear the area.
Jus’ sayin’.
eforhan on April 24, 2009 at 6:01 PM
I whole-heartedly defend the actions of this fine officer – no matter how moronic and horrible!
landshark on April 24, 2009 at 6:02 PM
My palate feels strangely…uncleansed.
TexasDan on April 24, 2009 at 6:02 PM
Don’t forget that in many (most?) areas, the left-hand shoulder of a highway or interstate is reserved for emergencies only.
eforhan on April 24, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Was Katie Couric involved in this accident?
Mark1971 on April 24, 2009 at 6:04 PM
He should be fired. We don’t need cops like that.
Kensington on April 24, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Anytime someone with a gun and bullets on their belt and a TASER at the ready wants to rough you up, it’s your duty to suck it up.
ericdijon on April 24, 2009 at 6:04 PM
A preview of future tea parties, only then on a much larger scale . . . ?
PastorJon on April 24, 2009 at 6:05 PM
the reporter was trying to interview some soldiers who had pulled an injured man from the wreck. Details at the link AP posted.
cameo on April 24, 2009 at 6:05 PM
ericdijon on April 24, 2009 at 6:04 PM
what country do we live in again? The land of the free and the brave, or where its ok for an officer of the law over step?
Conservative Voice on April 24, 2009 at 6:06 PM
Cops are turning into jerks… must be affirmative action!
Bob on April 24, 2009 at 6:07 PM
What a dick. The guy with the badge, I mean.
Cicero43 on April 24, 2009 at 6:09 PM
can you imagine if this was a road-side bomb on a an army supply convoy? this administration would have ensured wall-to-wall network coverage. Instead it was a car wreck here in the states, so best to send in the local law enforcement to trample on the rights of a free press
gatorboy on April 24, 2009 at 6:09 PM
I respect and support law enforcement as a profession, having said that I have met a few cops that were total dicks and who had no business being on the job. I think sometimes certain people do it because it is a pretty quick and simple way to attain power over people, not to say the job is easy though.
echosyst on April 24, 2009 at 6:09 PM
Indefensible.
Maquis on April 24, 2009 at 6:10 PM
Alex Jones reported this several days ago. The part that is most interesting is that no law was broken. The officer simply felt that by not listening to what he says despite no offense is against the law.
True_King on April 24, 2009 at 6:10 PM
I had wondered whatever happened to Chakotay from ST: Voyager. He’s now a power mad cop.
JohnTant on April 24, 2009 at 6:10 PM
If we have idiots at the national level, why shouldn’t we have idiots at the local level?
GarandFan on April 24, 2009 at 6:11 PM
Was that on private property, John Ziegler wants to know?
d1carter on April 24, 2009 at 6:11 PM
Yup, this is just Obama pushing through his stimulus against objections on a much smaller scale.
Kensington on April 24, 2009 at 6:13 PM
No it isn’t, it’s the reason why the 2nd Amendment exists, and why everyone should have just as much right to be wearing a gun, bullets, and a taser on their belt as this disgraceful GOVERNMENT agent was. That might have inspired more civility and politeness.
As this video shows, in a microcosm, how easy it is to abuse the fact that you are armed and the other guy isn’t.
A glimpse into our future if we keep going towards Europe and away from America.
wildcat84 on April 24, 2009 at 6:13 PM
Even if the reporter was doing something wrong he started walking back to the truck. He was complaining about it, but it looked like he was going to comply.
Mark1971 on April 24, 2009 at 6:13 PM
Seriously? This is your example of outrageous police behavior?
First, they don’t show anything that the reporter did before the cop starts telling him to get back in the truck, so this video is only half the story.
Second, it looks like the reporter was actually at the crash scene, you know where the cops and paramedics are trying to deal with the crash and injuries. And see the line of cars behind the reporters truck? The reporter was interfering with the scene and impeding traffic. He refused to comply with orders to move.
What do you people expect cops to do when people (reporters or not) don’t follow orders. Just shrug and let people do whatever they want at a crime scene? If people can’t listen and folow orders they get handcuffed and moved.
Many of you people need to brush up on your legal issues like use of force, and detainment vs. arrest before you spout off about videos like this.
Sgt_H on April 24, 2009 at 6:16 PM
Best line from the cop, “I gave you an order”…
O B E Y !
Fire the cop.
Talon on April 24, 2009 at 6:16 PM
Exactly. This was nothing more than a the actions of an inmature schoolyard bully, unfortunately “grown up” and given a gun, badge, and authority. And the inevitable result.
wildcat84 on April 24, 2009 at 6:16 PM
Uhhh no. In most European nations the cops are very lightly armed and helpful rather than antagonistic. Nations like Sweden and the Netherlands are anything but police-states. Try going there.
crr6 on April 24, 2009 at 6:17 PM
Disclaimer: I do know all of the parties involved.
If Hunt were a rookie reporter or this were a rookie cop, I’d say it wasn’t a big deal, learn from it and move on.
The cop is not a rookie. He’s a 20 year veteran who’s handled a thousand traffic accident scenes. He’s a supervisor and as such is a public face of the PD to the community and a role model to less experienced officers.
Hunt also is not an idiot. He and his photog are news veterans. On any given day, local media will cover 2 or 3 traffic accidents and in a week they will cover at least 2 traffic fatalities. They know how to safely cover a major traffic accident and an accident that shuts down a major US Interstate is a big deal.
The officers and media both follow standing procedures that have worked well over the long term. When Hunt asked the officer why he was being asked to leave, it was a legitimate question since they both know the procedures.
The El Paso Police Department spends big bucks every year making sure officers and especially supervisors on the scene are trained on what and how to speak with the press. If an officer on the scene thinks a reporter is interfering, it takes a 15 second phone call to the PIO Office, who calls the station’s General Manager who tells his reporter to “pack up, back off and behave”. It’s all part and parcel of having a good working relationship.
Everyone knows that it’s not in your own best interest to get into a confrontation with a reporter, especially with the cameras running. Public Information Officer’s work hard to maintain cooperation and a good working relationship with the media. When you tick off the media, they have no problem allowing you to look completely foolish and sabotage your own public relations. It is much more difficult to get them to cover your positive events (child seat safety checks, crime stoppers, most wanted’s). And they will pursue every breath of scandal and keep you running with Open Records Requests on stories.
Which is why the EPPD has PIO officers who handle the media! The officer’s actions (even just having a bad day) have created a public relations headache for the Police Department, primarily because it’s one of those things that by “using your brains, instead of your ego” would never have occurred.
2nd Ammendment Mother on April 24, 2009 at 6:17 PM
OK, I can usually at least imagine how someone who knows nothing at all might be confused about any video. But I don’t see it at all here.
Where, exactly, was the “brutality” part supposed to be?
The guy interfered with a crime or accident scene and refused to follow a police officer’s lawful instruction. The officer arrested the guy. This happens. Carrying a camera doesn’t magically make you immune from the law.
There is nothing even remotely inappropriate about anything the police officer did.
logis on April 24, 2009 at 6:17 PM
Exactly. We don’t need anybody in any profession like that
Loxodonta on April 24, 2009 at 6:17 PM
Ahh yes, the power of a badge, and gun given to a low intelligence stupido, jackass!
byteshredder on April 24, 2009 at 6:19 PM
Welcome to the world of President Obama.
Tommy_G on April 24, 2009 at 6:20 PM
Well…that didn’t take long.
JohnTant on April 24, 2009 at 6:20 PM
I thought we had a free press? You know, something about the Constitution? Eh, forget it, that’s crazy talk.
nickj116 on April 24, 2009 at 6:21 PM
We need to start to hold cops to higher standards, as soldiers are. There is way too much protection going on from within. It’s too unionized. The cover-up mentality seems to be par for the course unless the media gets wind. He got desk duty? Well, how about jail and a pink slip? He violated that man’s rights.
Dr. Manhattan on April 24, 2009 at 6:21 PM
Napolitana wants these prospective recruits for terrorism halted. He may have been a Republican or a veteran. Ususally professional officers are paying attention to their own business and the accident they are working,. for some reason that didn’t matter to this cop. Common sense says officers want to have a good reputation and not get their junk on camera. so he gets his 15 seconds of fame.
seven on April 24, 2009 at 6:22 PM
Newsflash!
Most people in El Paso are stupid. And, for his own safety, the reporter should have never been there. If he had been hit, again reminding people that most of the people in El Paso are stupid, he would have sued the city. I think the cop just got fed up with dealing with this guy and put the karate chop on him. He’ll probably get fired and life can go on as usual in El Paso, where most people are stupid, except anyone having ANYTHING to do with Fort Bliss, of course.
At least the Racism card is not being thrown around….imagine if it was the other way around?
HornetSting on April 24, 2009 at 6:23 PM
Whoa. Really? Is this a serious statement? You would have fit in very well in the USSR.
Joe Caps on April 24, 2009 at 6:23 PM
LOL, you people are funny. No clue what you’re talking about but don’t let that stop you from calling the cop a jackass, and for his firing.
Guess I didn’t realize that AP and Hotair readers were so anti-law enforcement.
Sgt_H on April 24, 2009 at 6:24 PM
This guy’s badge is way too heavy and he should be fired. Just exactly what law was he enforcing by ruffing up this reporter that was just there to report the news like they have done hundreds of times.
Some of these guys are getting high on the idea that any command they give must be followed or else.There is a difference between a lawful command and an unlawful command.
This cop should go out for Obama NAZI Storm Troopers instead of a training officer and supervisor where his illegal conduct will be passed on and emulated to other street cops.
ScottyDog on April 24, 2009 at 6:24 PM
You may have a point but isn’t it the responsibility of an officer of the law to tell you what you are doing wrong (especially with something as minor as this) before man-handling you? I think the cop would have notified him of this if that was his beef.
Joe Caps on April 24, 2009 at 6:26 PM
I gave you an order?
WTF?
Are we subjects to cops?
We pay these guys to protect and serve, not harass and issue orders.
THAT COP NEEDS TO BE SUSPENDED WITHOUT PAY FOR 6 MONTHS.
TheSitRep on April 24, 2009 at 6:27 PM
Not me, Sgt H. My hubby is a federal agent and I would rather he be judged by twelve than carried by six. If you mess with the bear, you get bit.
HornetSting on April 24, 2009 at 6:27 PM
Congratulations. That part of what you said is not completely stupid.
You really should have quit while you were ahead.
logis on April 24, 2009 at 6:28 PM
So by parking on the side of the road behind the police vehicles, the reporter had somehow managed to influence a large section of traffic to pullover as well? Wow, that’s media power. I’d say those cars pulled over to gawk at the accident and had less reason to be there than the reporter.
To be fair, I expect the press to have a little more leeway on that whole “reporting” thing they’re expected to do on events that occur in their area. So if the authorities decide they don’t want a story covered, they should be able to order the press to go away or be arrested?
darury on April 24, 2009 at 6:28 PM
We stand up for our rights. It has nothing to do with being anti-law enforcement. It depends upon the situation completely. Try to find a cop-hater in this post: http://hotair.com/archives/2009/02/23/comedy-gold-the-end-of-the-nyu-occupation/comment-page-3/
Joe Caps on April 24, 2009 at 6:28 PM
Wonderful comment. Thanks for the insight.
Weight of Glory on April 24, 2009 at 6:29 PM
+1
Sgt_H on April 24, 2009 at 6:29 PM
Anytime someone with a gun and bullets on their belt and a TASER at the ready wants to rough you up, it’s your duty to suck it up.
ericdijon on April 24, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Tell that to the French resistance, Pal!
mugged on April 24, 2009 at 6:29 PM
Do you think there may have been more conversation before what we see? Or did it start exactly as the cop was straddling the fence?
eforhan on April 24, 2009 at 6:32 PM
Hmm, maybe that’s why it took two whole months in the Fall of 2005 for the French to get control of a bunch of teenagers who were literally burning the country to the ground.
This police officer was way overboard, but I’ll stick with American cops all the same.
hawkdriver on April 24, 2009 at 6:32 PM
The reporter was walking away and the cop pulled a power trip when the reporter said his cameraman could shoot if he wants to.
I respect our LEO’s, but this cop went over the line.
SouthernDem on April 24, 2009 at 6:32 PM
That cop was a total f’in a-shole. The reporter was doing NOTHING to hinder any investigation or medical assistance. In fact, he was doing his job. Fire the cop. Make El Paso safe for its law-abiding citizens.
Andy in Agoura Hills on April 24, 2009 at 6:32 PM
I am pretty sure that it is against the law to disobey a direct order from a law enforcement officer as long as he is not telling you to break the law in most states.
I could be wrong. Anybody know?
Joe Caps on April 24, 2009 at 6:33 PM
This is a case where I agree with the cop. Those highway shoulder lanes, especially the left inside ones are for emergency only. They are not for reporters to play their interview games. It’s too bad the cop had too much adrenaline pumping to notify the reporter of that before he arrested him for stopping for a non-emergency purpose.
I still say, though, they should throw the reporter in the hoosegow with a bunch of caterpillars.
Dusty on April 24, 2009 at 6:33 PM
Oh please Allah.
You neglect to ponder what may have transpired BEFORE that video starts. Reporters are notorious F-wads with inflated egos and almost universally filled with an incredible sense of self-worth. You can glean a sense of that from this video alone.
Cop trying to keep an accident scene orderly? Check.
Reporter trying to disrupt order for THAT BIG BREAK? Check.
The reporter gets ZERO sympathy from me.
Ugly on April 24, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Anybody seen the naked guy at Coachella getting tased? Now that guy was asking for it.
content warning:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/23/naked-man-tasered-at.html
SouthernDem on April 24, 2009 at 6:35 PM
The cop was on a power trip. When the reporter said he can shoot if he wants to, that set the schmuck off. Guess you can’t exercise your first amendment rights either.
Andy in Agoura Hills on April 24, 2009 at 6:35 PM
Could be true. Remember Rodney King?
Joe Caps on April 24, 2009 at 6:35 PM
Police officers have a tough job, and the expectation that they should spend 24/7 putting their best face forward and “providing customer service” to the leeches that show up around accident and murder scenes, is unrealistic. If those reporters had any decency or moral character, they’d be reporting on issues that matter. It’d be great if the cops were able to be serenely calm while dealing with accidents, injuries, and traffic, but ti’s not a big deal that this guy lost his cool.
joe_doufu on April 24, 2009 at 6:35 PM
O Boy,I think it has started,was the guy on Napolitano’s
list!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(Sarc).
canopfor on April 24, 2009 at 6:35 PM
This cop should be fired.
taney71 on April 24, 2009 at 6:35 PM
The cop is probably an Obamite
Kini on April 24, 2009 at 6:36 PM
I just wish the reporter would have been Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Chris Tingles Matthews, or Katie Couric. Then, the cop would have been given a ticker tape parade.
HornetSting on April 24, 2009 at 6:37 PM
Unless the police department was actively recruiting stupid violent officers, chances are he was hired because he was a Mexican.
He’s still stupid, violent and Mexican..so what’s the problem?
maladapted on April 24, 2009 at 6:37 PM
Well, what are all these other vehicles doing parked along the same shoulder of the highway?? There are vehicles front and back of this reporter. Were they asked to move?? When the camera goes to the ground, it looks as though they are not that close to the truck.
JellyToast on April 24, 2009 at 6:38 PM
Good to know that pesky little First Amendment of the US Constitution means nothing.
Dang, National.Nightmare.Over.
TheEJS on April 24, 2009 at 6:38 PM
haha. Seriously? On what basis?
Ugly on April 24, 2009 at 6:38 PM
I would have hit that scumbag with a nightstick. I wish we could all get a good whack at a repeat offender that costs us so much tax payer money to put their stupid asses in jail.
HornetSting on April 24, 2009 at 6:39 PM
Do you have to comply with a police order to leave, or stop filming? We have seen this before. Do they have the power to order you to do something that is itself not illegal? What are your rights? In some videos I’ve seen, a cop orders a man to stop using his video camcorder from filming that said cop. Do you have to comply? And if you don’t comply, is that grounds for arrest?
keep the change on April 24, 2009 at 6:39 PM
OK, AP… I’ll bite.
Have you ever noticed, as you are driving down the highway, how the signs say that the shoulder is for emergency stopping only? Stopping to film a traffic accident is not an emergency. Therefore it was entirely appropriate that the officer tell people stopped on the shoulder, who were not having an emergency, to move along.
Stopping on the side of the highway is an inherently dangerous thing to do. People get killed every day of the week on highway shoulders. Sometimes they have no choice. But when they do, they should not.
To make matters worse, these guys were stopped on a narrow shoulder on the center of a divided highway. This is a particularly dangerous place to be, since it is on the side of the fast lanes.
The officer should be getting everybody to move off that shoulder. Perhaps he was. Perhaps he was starting with the camera crew. Frankly, if I was the officer, I would want to get the cameras out of there because I have seen, as we all have seen, people getting all stupid and jumping around mugging for the news cameras. This is not something you want to happen on a narrow left shoulder of a divided highway. Traffic is already screwed up. Adding your standard mob scene of morons trying to get on camera to the mix will only make it worse, and more dangerous.
In any case, once the crew is told to move along, their only answer should be “Yes”. They are completely in the wrong stopping at that location, since they are not having an emergency. If they delay, back talk, of if they are not complying, the officer is doing his job by arresting them and getting them off the street that way.
gridlock2 on April 24, 2009 at 6:40 PM
What he says.
And your ignorance and false sense of entitlement provides even more entertainment, AllahPutz. You do not block the emergency lane. And when a police officer gives you a lawful order, you obey it.
Blake on April 24, 2009 at 6:41 PM
DO NOT TALK BACK TO PONCHO!
SouthernDem on April 24, 2009 at 6:41 PM
The first amendment does not protect you from an out of control 18 Wheeler that is rubber necking. It was a safety issue. The first amendment also does not protect you from being an ass.
HornetSting on April 24, 2009 at 6:41 PM
OK AP. Not going to offend you by defending cop, but look forward to your posting something praising good police action instead.
jeanie on April 24, 2009 at 6:41 PM
Which part of the reporter going back to his vehicle did you miss?
SouthernDem on April 24, 2009 at 6:42 PM
Looks like you didn’t have to wait long.
MB4 on April 24, 2009 at 6:42 PM
The cop is probably an Obamite.
Kini on April 24,2009 at 6:36PM.
Kini: I agree,Hopey’s Temple Pillar Troopers!
And,how are you doin,in beautiful Hawaii!:)
canopfor on April 24, 2009 at 6:43 PM
Exactly what part of “get in your truck and MOVE” does this idiot NOT understand?
Ah yes, the MSM, above listening to a lawful order in the middle of an emergency.
The town should sue this idiot reporter and cameraman for causing the officer to now have to pay more attention to their refusal to listen to a lawful order than the original problem he was called there for and bill them accordingly.
UncleOlaf on April 24, 2009 at 6:43 PM
Common sense would dictate that if you find yourself in a situation (unlike this reporter, who put himself there) wherein a Police officer is demanding that you simply LEAVE, then leave.
Do not goad an officer of the law.
Do not poke Happy Fun Ball.
Do not be arrogant in the face of authority.
Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
Ugly on April 24, 2009 at 6:44 PM
Should the cop be fired, no. Should the cop be demoted? no. Should the cop be required to take an unpaid vacation…yes. Police work is tough. But if the public loses the trust they have with cops, it puts all cops in danger.
Its not just the fact he is a member of the media, he is a citizen. This would not be acceptable behavior on the cop if the guy was just rubber necking.
Conservative Voice on April 24, 2009 at 6:44 PM
Anyone who wants to defend the officer should read the article Allahpundit linked to, and watch the video embedded in it. That video is even more damning, showing the handcuffing of the reporter, then the officer knocking the camera to the ground.
Loxodonta on April 24, 2009 at 6:44 PM
O/T.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HOT AIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 24,2006 at 4:15AM.
canopfor on April 24, 2009 at 6:44 PM
Allah is just sore because he WANTED to be a cop, but he didn’t meet the heighth requirement, so he simmers in his own anger now.
HornetSting on April 24, 2009 at 6:45 PM
WHO ATE ALL THE BIRTHDAY CAKE???????????
HornetSting on April 24, 2009 at 6:45 PM
That’s the main problem with society today. When I did well as a kid did my parents ever praise me? No! When I did bad, did I hear about it? You better believe it.
MB4 on April 24, 2009 at 6:46 PM
Good to know the reporter was either causing crashes deliberately or had future vision on so he could then film as the 18 Wheeler went out of control.
But this disturbs me:
Da, Tovarisch.
TheEJS on April 24, 2009 at 6:46 PM
Only trust the media when you hate cops more. The MSM is always correct when its against a cop.
GoodBoy on April 24, 2009 at 6:46 PM
driving while white…? (jk)
It doesn’t make sense if he was mad about them being parked on the side of the road, there was a line of cars infront and behind them. Now, if he was trying to protect some dead bodies or something, I can understand that to a degree. But it was weird when the reporter was at the truck and said he would leave, and the cop all of a sudden said no, and cuffed him.
I think reporters have the right to cover the news, but the cop might have wanted to protect the family members from seeing this on the news?? He was still acting really pissed, and out of control, but perhaps the reporter said something to him earlier.
If I had to choose a side, I would pick a cop over a reporter any day.
sarainitaly on April 24, 2009 at 6:47 PM
I am not asking what is the most expedient thing to do. It is, rather, a point of law that needs to be clarified. Otherwise, the police can demand people do things that are not in their power to demand. That is a slippery slope if there ever was one.
keep the change on April 24, 2009 at 6:47 PM
MB4 on April 24, 2009 at 6:46 PM
What are the chances that AP will oblige me do you think?
jeanie on April 24, 2009 at 6:47 PM
Ugly on April 24, 2009 at 6:44 PM
Wrong, the officer only holds authority to enforce the law…he can’t force you to do anything unless its within the law for him to do so. We are a nation of laws, not a nation of the police have a knight stick so we better listen…don’t hit me master. There is a thing called free speech. The reporter could of said F* you, and the cop did not have the authority to take him down…because the reporter was in compliance of the law…he was walking toward his truck.
Conservative Voice on April 24, 2009 at 6:48 PM
You wrote that post very well!
Good job!
Loxodonta on April 24, 2009 at 6:48 PM
The only way the “evil cop” theory works is if HE was the one who edited the tape. And even the biggest idiots should figure that one out.
As I said before, there was nothing even remotely inappropriate about the arrest itself.
In order to call the officer the bad guy, you have to ASSUME that the officer had absolutely no reason to ask the reporter to leave in the first place. And, based on this video, there is no rational reason to believe that.
I give people a huge amount of slack for not understanding, literally, the first thing about police procedures. But this is beyond simple ignorance. This is common sense.
This is the same as the Palin interview that “proved” she’s dumber than Allahpundit. The that that so many people are this easily manipulated by video editing is, frankly, appalling to anyone who knows how to think.
logis on April 24, 2009 at 6:49 PM
Yes. In some states, failure to obey a lawful order is a crime.
Here is Florida for an example:
http://law.onecle.com/florida/motor-vehicles/316.072.html
Joe Caps on April 24, 2009 at 6:49 PM
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