Last night I was arrested and charged with obstructing a peace officer by @LASDHQ after videotaping their interactions with protesters in Lynwood. This is what I remember and what I have on video and audio.
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I texted video to editors. When I looked up from my phone, the small group of men had dispersed & deputies were following at least 1 man down the street. I walked behind, using the zoom on my camera so I could keep physical distance. A couple deputies looked at me as I filmed.pic.twitter.com/q5Qdf4IY3N
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Here’s more of the video, the zoom is still on. I saw a commotion ahead of me. Deputies rushed one man and chased another. I was filming an arrest when suddenly deputies shout “back up.” Within seconds, I was getting shoved around. There was nowhere to back up.pic.twitter.com/Y0amc46NZr
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Somehow I was able to start a new video right away. You see my phone clatter to the ground and I start shouting “I’m a reporter...I’m with KPCC.” I scream for help from the TV reporters I know are around the corner doing their 11 p.m. live hitspic.twitter.com/O9CZNuSrQI
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After my phone drops, it keeps recording and it captures two deputies damaging my phone by kicking and stepping on it. I can hear myself in the background shouting: “You guys are hurting me” and “Stop it.” It feels very out-of-body to play this back.pic.twitter.com/8o1kdjqlA9
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I was put in the back of a patrol car -- the start of some 5 hours in LASD custody that began with the deputy refusing to uncuff me so I could put my face covering back on, telling me I just had a “scrape” when I was bleeding from my foot and not giving me back a shoe
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I’m grateful to the crew at
@ABC7@abc7leanne for filming what happened to me last night, and for Leanne and@OSV227Hex getting my phone back to me which let me share my videos. I know it is important to document what happened. Said phone is somehow alive!pic.twitter.com/EOCpilxUrq
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Thank you http://onscene.tv for what is the clearest footage of my arrest by
@LASDHQ. It’s how I remember it — like being tossed around in the ocean and then slammed into rockpic.twitter.com/G3rfCR1NiIShow this thread
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Looks like you were interfering with Police work (you need to stand back from the scene). Get a good zoom lense.
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My man, this is not what the video shows. But go off about how much you support state violence along with defiance of the U.S. Constitution & Bill of Rights.
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it takes 4
#LASD to handcuff one guy.@LACoSheriff resign and take these guys with you!!!! - Show replies
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