Since the Buffalo Police Department has been thrust gloriously into the national spotlight I think now is as good a time as ever to talk about my experience over the weekend with them as a member of the media. A thread:
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I saw one young man overheating and dripping mucus out of every hole in his head in response to the police tactics. I attempted to pull him back from the frontline when I was shot multiple times by police and told to leave him in their line of firepic.twitter.com/09wnLAQ1Ss
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At this point I identified myself as part of the press (citing my press credentials and bright yellow media vest) but was told to "fuck off" and shot again over a dozen times at close range by officer Becker of BPD who swiped at my camera as I took a picture of his nameplatepic.twitter.com/8lJWqOqNou
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On Sunday, at exactly 8:01PM (8pm curfew) I had four M16S assault rifles pointed at my head by Buffalo SWAT. I asked why this was all happening to a member of the press with 1A protections to which they responded "fuck your first amendment" and put me in handcuffs
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I would have never expected that my 1A rights would be more acknowledged by the Hong Kong Police Forxe (the servants of the CCP) than by police in the United States. Never had I been more in fear of my life than being "served and protected" by BPD.
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A photo from my time in Hong Kong even in the midst of a revolution members of the press are somewhat respected by police, not ran up on and handcuffed for being outsidepic.twitter.com/EEZ7iO0jmp
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This thug should be fired and prosecuted. And banned from law enforcement jobs for the rest of his life.
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And have his pension donated to a charity.
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These guys keep declining to identify, so I have to do it. His name appears to be Scott Harold Becker and last year he earned $97,070 as a Buffalo cop. This is his publicly available White Pages information. https://www.whitepages.com/name/Scott-Harold-Becker/Buffalo-NY/19gtnxse …
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100K in Buffalo...that’s real money
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That body camera is off too, how convenient
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When someone refuses a breathalyzer is assumed to be guilty of a DUI, police officers who fail to have their cameras turned on should be assumed guilty of police brutality!
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