It's Not A Crime To Film! Why Are You Arresting Me?

Kentucky cops rough up a guy filming doing their jobs.

BLACK LIVES MATTER

PROTECT BLACK WOMEN! 

END SARS NOW!

HER NAME IS BREONNA TAYLOR!

WEAR A DAMN MASK! SAVE A LIFE!

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The need for police reform is needed in the wake of high profile police shootings of people of color. We need to also remind police that taking pictures and filming police doing their jobs is not a crime.

Why the fuck can a film crew from Cops and Live PD film police doing their jobs but not an average person?

Somehow, the police got the story twisted when it comes to “freedom of speech” and “interfering with a police encounter.”

When a person is filming a police officer, they are doing it as their right to see actions being conducted are legal. With police officers now being equipped with body cameras, the demands for bad cops to be held liable for their actions is now growing.

Too many cops get away with criminal activity. Being lauded by a police union and a “law and order” president and Republican Party, the police are finding it easy to convince voters that reform is a coded word for “defund the police.”

Bad cops consider Black Lives Matter a disease. They believe that BLM is there to incite riots and threaten harm on law enforcement. Bad cops will often use their personal social media to denounce the group, lawmakers who support the movement and toss around a racially offensive remark or two. 

Bad cops are going to get good cops killed. I am just saying this as a fact. 

Joe Bennett was filming an incident when cops arrested him for recording them.

So a white man filming a police encounter in Kentucky is roughed up and charged with menacing.

Joe Bennett of Jeffersontown, Kentucky was served a knuckle style chili after he filmed police officers doing their job. The cops were in the middle of an arrest outside a McDonald’s when two of them came towards his vehicle.

Mind you he was 50-feet away from the police and he wasn’t interfering with the arrest.

Bennett told the junk food media, he just was observing a normal pullover nothing more.

 

The cops didn’t realize they were being filmed three minutes into the encounter. 

Two officers approached Bennett. When one of the cops asked to see his ID, Bennett refused.

Bennett asks why he should provide his ID, the cop replies: “You’re filming a crime scene investigation … and you’re involved.”

After Bennett refused to provide an ID, the cop grabs his phone and hits Bennett in the side of his face. The livestream ends shortly after that.

Bennett was issued a citation for menacing and resisting an arresting officer. The cop claims that he pulled an “empty strike” on him. Bennett said he got a solid left side piece.

After filming police activity, a man was sucker punched by a cop. Do you believe he would have been killed by the cops?

Yes

No

Lt. Col. Steve Schmidt of the Jeffersontown Police told the junk food media that the “officers were in the area investigating and making arrests related to a check fraud scheme thwarted at the Citizens Union Bank across the street from the McDonald’s.”

Bennett was pointed out by a suspect as a driver involved in the alleged crime.

Bennett hired a lawyer and said that this incident is a reminder of why police need accountability.

“[Doing] proper police work, they should have approached me gently. I wasn’t going anywhere, I wasn’t in my vehicle. I wasn’t going gto flee. They certainly shouldn’t have hit me first and asked questions later,” Bennett said.

Jeffersontown, Kentucky is a home-rule city and enclave in the unified Louisville-Jefferson County area. The city of Louisville was the scene of the March 2020 incident involving Breonna Taylor. The young EMT was shot and killed by the Louisville Metro Police after a botched raid.

The cops weren’t charged in her death. 

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, a protege of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) sided with the cops in their decision not to prosecute them for murder. 

Taylor’s boyfriend Kenneth Walker fired a shot at the cops and they returned fire. He was arrested for attempted murder but the charges were dropped. In the phone call released to the junk food media, it showed that Walker, a legal owner, was calling 9-1-1 on a report he shot at intruders and they fired at his home hitting Breonna.