Niagara Cop to Citizen: 'If You Take My Picture Again, I'm Going to F***ing Break Your Face'; Miami Beach Police Ordered Videographer at Gunpoint to Hand Over Phone; Georgia Cops 'Disciplined' for Beating Girl Trying to Record Them

Cop to Citizen: "If You Take My Picture Again, I'm Going to F***ing Break Your Face" (Video)

June 10, 2011

Pixiq - A police officer from the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority in Buffalo walked up to a citizen who was filming him and threatened to "fucking break" his face.

The cop said he was speaking "not as a police officer, but as a person."

The only problem is, the sonofabitch was in full uniform with a police dog in tow.

The incident took place Thursday in the Square in downtown Buffalo after a fight had broken out. No further details are available at this point.

But the video speaks for itself.

Miami Beach Police Ordered Videographer at Gunpoint to Hand Over Phone

But video survived even after police tried to destroy phone

June 3, 2011

Pixiq - Miami Beach police did their best to destroy a citizen video that shows them shooting a man to death in a hail of bullets Memorial Day.

First, police pointed their guns at the man who shot the video, according to a Miami Herald interview with the videographer.

Then they ordered the man and his girlfriend out the car and threw them down to the ground, yelling “you want to be fucking paparazzi?”

Then they snatched the cell phone from his hand and slammed it to the ground before stomping on it. Then they placed the smashed phone in the videographer's back pocket as he was laying down on the ground.

And finally, they took him to a mobile command center where they snapped his photo and demanded the phone again, then took him to police headquarters where they conducted a recorded interview with him before releasing him.

But what they didn’t know was that Narces Benoit had removed the SIM card and hid it in his mouth, which means the video survived.

Benoit showed the video to Miami Herald reporters on Thursday, who described it in their article.

The three-minute video captured on Narces Benoit’s HTC EVO phone begins as officers crowd around the east side of Herisse’s car with guns drawn. Roughly 15 seconds into the video, officers open fire.



Benoit filmed the incident from the sidewalk on the northeast corner of 13th Street and Collins Avenue, close enough to see some officers’ faces and individual muzzle flashes.

Shortly after the gunfire ends, an officer points at Benoit and police can be heard yelling for him to turn off the camera. The voices are muffled at times. The 35-year-old car stereo technician drops his hand with the camera and hurries back to his Ford Expedition parked further east on 13th Street.

The video shows Benoit get into the car, where his girlfriend, Ericka Davis, sat in the driver’s seat. He raises his camera and an officer is seen appearing on the driver’s side with his gun drawn, pointed at them.

The video ends as more officers are heard yelling expletives, telling the couple to turn the video off and get out of the car.

“They put guns to our heads and threw us on the ground,” Davis said.

Benoit has not posted it on Youtube because he is asking to be compensated. But it sounds as if he won’t have much trouble getting compensated through a settlement with the police department.

However, he first must post the video for the world to see.

Benoit and his girlfriend also said police smashed several phones from other witnesses, so hopefully they were able to recover the videos as well.

The new details emerged a day after police announced they had found a gun in the car they had shot up.

It took police two-and-a-half days to find the gun in the Hyundai but they still haven’t determined if it was discharged that night.

For all we know, it could have been locked away in the trunk of the car.

Four innocent bystanders were shot during that shooting, most likely from police bullets.

Also, an hour after that shooting, another officer shot at a man who she believed was driving towards her. But he turned out to be allegedly drunk, which is why he was driving erratically and eventually into a police cruiser.

Georgia Cops "Disciplined" for Beating Girl Trying to Record Them

March 29, 2011

Pixiq - A teenage girl who was trying to videotape her cousin’s arrest was beaten by two police officers in Georgia.

And it was all caught on the police dash cam video, which can be seen here because it is not embeddable.

The incident occurred last month but it is just coming to light now after the two officers were disciplined for excessive force; if you want to call “written counseling” and “additional use of force training” discipline.

It’s pretty much a slap on the wrist.

Meanwhile, the 17-year-old girl, Ciara Flemister, who had her head bashed into the hood of the police car, is facing felony obstruction and battery charges. Flemister was trying to record the officers, who were arresting her cousin for playing loud music, which goes to show you these officers have pretty much nothing to do in the tiny town of West Point, Georgia.

The video shows Flemister clearly holding up a camera phone as she walks towards the police car.

That was when an officer grabbed her wrist, the same one holding the camera (beginning at 1:23 in the video).

She responded by kicking the officer, which prompted both officers to grab and toss her on the hood of the car, elbowing her on the back of the head and slamming her face into the car.

West Point Police Chief J.K. Cato acknowledged the officers were out of line in beating her, but said they had every right to arrest her because she had walked into their “safety zone.”

But the video doesn’t support that claim.

It shows her walking towards the police car with the phone, stopping in front of the car, then an officer walking up to her and grabbing her wrist. It was obvious she was not a threat. In fact, you can’t even see the officers in the frame until they step in.

I recommend opening the video to fill your screen, then watching it frame by frame by using the pause button to really break it down.

If it is true she was too close for their comfort, all they had to do is order her to step back. Cops do this on daily basis.

The girl didn't do herself any favors by kicking the officer after he had grabbed her, leaving herself open for the felony battery charge. But the fact that she was not obstructing in the first place would seem to make it an unlawful arrest in the first place.

But we know the courts will never forgive a citizen from physically confronting an officer.

Unfortunately, police are not held to the same standards.

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