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friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)
Thu Jul 18, 2013, 07:20 PM Jul 2013

Detroit Free Press: Police launch investigations after arrest of photographer

Warning: Autoplay video at link (grrrr...)

http://www.freep.com/article/20130716/NEWS01/307160018/photographer-free-press-mandi-wright-video-arrested

Police launch investigations after arrest of photographer

5:03 PM, July 16, 2013

By Jim Schaefer and Gina Damron

Detroit Free Press Staff Writers
Detroit police and the department’s internal affairs officers have launched investigations following the arrest of a Free Press photographer who was filming a police action on a public street last week.

Police said they are looking into the conduct of photographer Mandi Wright and the actions of an officer who ordered her to stop filming and wrestled her phone away from her. They also are looking into the disappearance of a memory card from her newspaper-issued iPhone and whether she was briefly left alone with the crime suspect whom she had been filming.

Wright, 47, was arrested Thursday after she and a reporter came upon an arrest scene near Woodbridge and Riopelle, east of downtown. Police at the scene said Wright tussled with an officer after he had confiscated her iPhone; Wright said that she was concentrating on taking her video and did not realize the man who grabbed her phone was a police officer. Wright was handcuffed and later, she said, put in an interrogation room with the suspect.

Detroit Police Chief James Craig confirmed Monday that an internal affairs investigation is being conducted. Deputy Chief James Tolbert said no conclusions have been drawn, but if that investigation verifies that she was put into a room with the suspect and then left alone, “that could be a serious breach of department policy.”...


Man, TPTB sure don't like it when Little Brother and Little Sister start looking back, do they?
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Detroit Free Press: Police launch investigations after arrest of photographer (Original Post) friendly_iconoclast Jul 2013 OP
The USSC ruled that it is legal to film the actions of the police. Dawson Leery Jul 2013 #1
Some cops don't seem to have gotten the message... friendly_iconoclast Jul 2013 #3
Recommended (nt) NYC_SKP Jul 2013 #2
The damage done to us all by the fear and intimidation that LEOs often use can not be overstated. NYC_SKP Jul 2013 #4
 

NYC_SKP

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4. The damage done to us all by the fear and intimidation that LEOs often use can not be overstated.
Fri Jul 19, 2013, 06:24 PM
Jul 2013

We don't need to be victims of it for our collective souls to suffer.

I applaud the individuals who stand up against the powers that be and their abusive ways.

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