Teen Arrested For Asking Cop About Unwarranted Raids

[ktlight]

Robert Wanek
mnchange.org

On May 6th I began shooting film for a new video project about unwarranted raids in Wahpeton nd, I was standing on a public street filming a notorious officer (Dustin Hill) who commonly practices unwarranted searches and seizures. He asked if I 'needed something' I responded by telling him 'no, I'm just filming a story about unwarranted raids in wahpeton' . He immediately
placed me under arrest for interfering with a police investigation, or hindering as he also coined it. There was no investigation going on, he was simply talking to a citizen on public property. I was taken into an interview room where I remained cuffed for roughly an hour, I was questioned by an officer without ever being read my miranda rights while he harrassed and grilled me.
After telling him the United States Constitution gives me the right to film in public he left, he returned after a long period of time and told me to stand up so he could remove my cuffs. I was then told to grab my camera and leave, and notified that I had 'Pissed Dustin Hill Off' I was released with NO CHARGES and my parents were never notified of my detainment, this is Orwellian authoritarian tactics of detaining a minor illegally for exercising his rights to intimidate him. I'm currently looking for the most effective avenue to seek legal action against the department but I would encourage anyone who is concerned about this issue to RESPECTFULLY and PROFESSIONALLY
contact the Wahpeton ND police dept at 701-642-7722 and voice your concerns . One act of disobeying the constitution under the protection of a shiny badge, is a strike against the rights of all men and women. I hope you will all stand with me in this fight against those who seek to overstrectch the boundaries of authority.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0X1Acrty6E

[Lord Sidious]

The solution to dirtbags like this is to follow em around and film him at every opportunity.
That will severely piss him off and then he will make a mistake.
Then we have him.

[Dorok]

I'd be very careful since some municipalities have made it a crime to film/record on-duty police officers.

[ceetee9]

If that's true then the public would have no right to document what their employees were doing. The police could do whatever they choose to do and we would have no way to prove if or when they violated our rights or freedoms. I don't see how such a law could stand in any sane court in this country, but if it does stand then we are much further along the way to a Totalitarian government then even I suspected.

[Dorok]

See this for a good primer on consequences of recording police. It's obvious that the laws they are using to convict people are distortions of the law's intent. Try and stop them though... You may think the cops work for the people, but they and the courts 'know' better.
http://gizmodo.com/#!5553765/are-cameras-the-new-guns

[Lord Sidious]

I'd be very careful since some municipalities have made it a crime to film/record on-duty police officers.

That would be unconstitutional.
The bill of rights would make that ultra vires.

[Dorok]

I'd be very careful since some municipalities have made it a crime to film/record on-duty police officers.

That would be unconstitutional.
The bill of rights would make that ultra vires.

Ah...My Lord, you make too much sense; however, where would the Empire be without it's Stormtroopers?

[Shezbeth]

County cops and courts are experience a degree of familiarity with one another, and tend to show one another favoritism. This favoritism amounts to, in a legal sense, corruption. BUT that is what Grand Juries, and appealate courts are for.