(Florida) Local 10 Reporter Arrested While Covering Story (Raw video included)

[951-Riverside]

Run time: 01:59 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPPAwo3_7d0   Posted on YouTube: October 24, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: October 25, 2007 By DU Member: 951-Riverside Views on DU: 6673

 


The raw video is a must see.

(Raw Video)

http://a526.v129188.c12918.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/526/12918/v0001/vod.ibsys.com/2007/1024/14413746.200k.wmv

A Local 10 reporter was arrested at Miami Central Senior High School while he was on assignment covering a story about school violence.

On Tuesday, Miami-Dade Schools Police told WPLG-TV's Jeff Weinsier he was trespassing and that he needed to leave.

He was not inside the school or inside the fenced-in area that surrounds the school. School board police told him to leave and go across the street from the school, but Weisnier said he was on a public sidewalk.

Police said they were giving him a lawful order to get off the property and that he was within 500 feet of a school.

Weinsier on videotape tries to convince officers that he had the right to be on the sidewalk and pointed out that other people were on the sidewalk, but after repeated attempts, police handcuffed him.

http://www.local10.com/news/14411684/detail.html

[Kermitt Gribble]

1. Rent-a-cops

proud to part of the end of free speech.

[Gonnuts]

38. Amateurs

I live in New Orleans, wait till Blackwater hits your neighborhood.

After bush&co. attack Iran the full force of the police state will be unleashed like the Storm Troopers of Nazi Germany on steroids.

[Trajan]

2. I do not open links without some backround ....

If you arent willing to tell us what this is about, then I am not willing to open unknown links ....

For my fellow DUers:

Local 10 Reporter Arrested While Covering Story

Police Search Uncovers Concealed Weapon, But Reporter Had Permit

POSTED: 9:55 am EDT October 24, 2007
UPDATED: 12:49 pm EDT October 24, 2007


MIAMI -- A Local 10 reporter was arrested at Miami Central Senior High School while he was on assignment covering a story about school violence.

On Tuesday, Miami-Dade Schools Police told WPLG-TV's Jeff Weinsier he was trespassing and that he needed to leave.

He was not inside the school or inside the fenced-in area that surrounds the school. School board police told him to leave and go across the street from the school, but Weisnier said he was on a public sidewalk.

Police said they were giving him a lawful order to get off the property and that he was within 500 feet of a school.


Now was that so hard ?

[951-Riverside]

4. I included the same background information in my original post before you posted here n/t

[Breeze54]

8. Why don't you have a firewall and anti-virus on your computer?

:shrug:

I think your being sort of silly. :silly:

[Trajan]

12. I have both, but that isnt the point ....

Neither stops all malware, and you should know that ....

One man's 'silly' is another man's cautious ....

Whatever ..... Click whatever you wish, and I will do the same, as well as be cautious and verbal about it ..... YOU don't fix my computers : I do ....

[Breeze54]

23. Well; that link said it was a 'stream' but

whatevah!

I could fix your computer though. :P

[cboy4]

27. No, he's not being "silly." He's being a rude,

ungrateful A-hole.

[cboy4]

28. Oh boo-fucking hoo. If you don't want to click on

a link, then don't click on it.

Nobody wants to hear you bitch about your computer worries.

Don't be so ungrateful toward the OP. Is that so hard?

[Trajan]

30. I wasnt bitching about 'computer worries' initially ....

I was complaining about the lack of a textual summary .....

I'll bitch and moan as much as I wish .....

Feel free to jump in whenever you want ... ok ?

[cboy4]

31. The bottom line is whatever you were complaining

about, you did it in a rude fashion.

[Trajan]

33. Nonsense ....

No personal attacks nor profanity was involved ....

If you have visited 'DU|General Discussion: Politics' lately, you might have a skewed viewpoint as to what constitutes 'rude' ....

I didn't mention anyone's mother even once ....

[cboy4]

35. This is fascinating that you don't think you were rude

because "no personal attack nor profanity was involved."

Here, I'll explain.

You said, and I quote: "Now was that so hard ?

This sort of snotty, arrogant sarcasm is rude.

The OP didn't initially paste some information, and you got all pissy.

Big effing deal. You made it sound like it ruined your whole day.

[Divine Discontent]

42. don't tase me bro!!!

LOL....

I get all excited when you send the smack down on arrogance. "now was that so hard?" - naw, that's not rude or anything! :sarcasm:


and referring to the original story, I'm sorta glad he was arrested... maybe it will get heard by enough people in high places for the time being who can possibly help stop this shit cold turkey. we need a congressional act mandating that these effin rent a cops and capital police that are shittin on people's rights everyday get a strong message that they will serve time in jail for ignoring constitutional rights.

[proud2BlibKansan]

52. We need a constitutional amendment guaranteeing publuc sidewalks are really

public property.

And I am hoping that asshole cop loses his job ASAP.

[LiberalFighter]

59. I am sick and tired of these so called cops getting away with shit

They need to suffer bigtime.

[Divine Discontent]

70. I agree...

a friend of mine said he believed that schools 'own' in effect the sidewalks around the school itself... wonder if that's true.

[Trajan]

44. Pffft .....

Your responses surmount the entire exchange between myself and the OP in unnecessary rudeness .....

Really ..... Get a grip ..... your Rude-O-Meter needs recalibration ....

[proud2BlibKansan]

53. Get over it already

Good grief.

[struggle4progress]

40. Mayhem at Miami-Dade Schools P.D. (Miami New Times)

Wed Oct 24, 2007 at 01:56:11 PM

The Miami Dade Schools Police Headquarters was under seige this morning. The morning staff meeting dragged on longer than usual. Channel 10 reporters flitted in and out of the decidedly shitty building. Secretaries peered out into the parking lot through the front door’s peep hole ...

Weinsier got busted, according to School Police PIO Ed Torrens, after police told him four or five times to get off school property and back into the “staging area.” When the officer took Weinsier into custody they found that the reporter was packing a revolver in his waistband – no holster.

“You’ll blow your dick off doing that kind of shit,” one cop remarked ...

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2007/10/mayhem_at_miamidade_schools_pd.php

[LiberalFighter]

60. Why the hell do public schools have a police force. That is bullcrap.

[Cooley Hurd]

3. Anyone know what the actual law is, or was that fat cop talking out his ass?

:shrug:

[Gonnuts]

39. Sure, here's the law ...

... the fat cop has a gun and we live in a land where the law doesn't apply beyond that.

When you have the highest officials in government are getting away with in your face treason of the highest order the fat fascist cop with the gun is the law, the court and executioner.

Welcome to the New World Order. Feeling safer yet?

[proud2BlibKansan]

54. Public sidewalks are not private property

You can't be restricted from a public sidewalk.

[LiberalFighter]

61. Public sidewalks are right of ways.

[proud2BlibKansan]

68. As long as they are not blocked, people have the right to be on public sidewalks

[FreedomUnderground]

5. So if you have a carry permit...

can you be closer than 1000 ft to school property or not?

Was he outside that range?

[951-Riverside]

7. The gun was discovered after he was placed under arrest and taken away.

They did not know he had a licensed weapon at the time of arrest. Looks like they arrested him for being on a public sidewalk in front of the school the gun issue came after the fact.

[Breeze54]

9. He can't be INSIDE the school and he wasn't!

He has a permit to carry the gun due to threats concerning another a story about restaurants.

He was on PUBLIC PROPERTY .. the sidewalk!!

[proud2BlibKansan]

69. There is a distance limit

It's a federal law. So many feet from a school - no drugs or weapons. (I am thinking 1000 ft?) So he might be in trouble for the gun. BUT that doesn't excuse this cop. He was an ass and needs to lose his job.

[shance]

17. What are you talking about? There was no gun.

n/t

[The Doctor.]

20. Yes, there was.

Just because it's not on the video doesn't mean he wasn't carrying it.

[cboy4]

6. That's bullshit. The reporter has every right to stand

on a public sidewalk.

This fat school cop (do you notice how the out of shape cops are always the worst?) had no business arresting this reporter, just because the school didn't like the fact that it was a negative story.

Freedom of the press....hello.

The reporter/TV station has every right now to sue the cop for civil damages.

[ThomCat]

19. I hope the reporter does sue.

And I hope it gets a hell of a lot of press coverage. x(

[Alcibiades]

34. And if he does, the NRA should pay his legal bills

[stlsaxman]

50. yes- AND the ACLU... what a legal team THAT would be, huh? n/t

:rofl:

[Breeze54]

10. This is outragous!

Gheesh!!

Those are the kind of pigs that give good cops a bad name!!

:kick: & Recommended

[TransitJohn]

48. Yeah

Those are the kind of pigs that give good cops a bad name!!

Both of them.

[Bozita]

11. Betting the station has dozens of earlier stories filmed on that very sidewalk

The cop giving the 'lawful order' would likely define the term as any order he gives.

[shadowknows69]

49. And the reporter had every right to refuse that unlawful order

I fully anticipate being dragged away some day if one of these police state policemen try to order me to comply with something that deifiles my rights.

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. Schools sometimes seem to believe they have their own laws

that supersede local statues and the Constitution.

A photographer at the newspaper I used to work for was once told by campus "security" that she couldn't make photos of a disturbance in front of the school while she was standing across the street from it.

[951-Riverside]

14. [Blog] Can't We All Just Get Along?

From the same station.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Can't We All Just Get Along?

Now might be a good time to bring up the sheriff’s deputy who snatched my cell phone, in mid-use, right out of my hand. That was his way of ending an interview I was doing with a man on a street that this deputy thought had gone on too long. Because we were transmitting that phone interview live, as a report during our noon newscast, the last thing viewers heard was my voice yelling “Hey, what are you doing!” Click.

Back in the studio, the anchors explained to viewers that somehow the cell connection was lost. Back out on Pembroke Road, I was dogging the deputy up the street to get his name for some future action. The incident is all on videotape, as happens when news photographers are present.

That deputy's action was not law enforcement. It was bully behavior.

And in the bigger picture, this guy with a badge, a gun and the power of the law had just trashed the First Amendment.

Later that day, a spokesman for the Broward Sheriff’s Office graciously apologized for the deputy’s behavior (though the offender never did). I tried to be equally gracious, and chalked up his behavior to an emotional reaction in the hours after a colleague had been shot.

End of story.

Except it’s not the end.

That incident was part of a continuum of law enforcement officers acting on some preconceived notion that news reporters are public enemy number one. And I bring it up now because of what happened Tuesday afternoon...

(Continued) http://html.local10.com/sh/blogger/2007/10/cant-we-all-just-get-along.html

[FreedomUnderground]

18. This I Believe...

That incident was part of a continuum of law enforcement officers acting on some preconceived notion that news reporters are public enemy number one.

[bullimiami]

24. the preconceived notion is that they ARE the law, not subject TO the law.

[sasquatch]

25. True that

If this was a just society that cop would be prosecuted.

[Locrian]

15. thanks for adding the additional info and not just a link

Thanks - I hate blind links w/o info. I cannot open video links at work (blocked) but am interested in the info.

[shance]

16. Wow. That is unbelievable. I'm glad he went back though. Good for him.

Got it all on tape.

Send this to your friends in Florida.

For that matter, send it to all your friends.

[Enrique]

21. that cop has no neck

not that there's anything wrong with that.

[Zodiak]

22. Oh look, another fascist police state story out of Florida

...anyone surprised?

I wouldn't set foot in that state, especially not after the FTAA protests.

[951-Riverside]

26. Gotta love how CBS4's version of the story.

(CBS4) MIAMI A reporter for WPLG-TV Channel 10 was arrested Tuesday afternoon after police allegedly found him at a high school campus with a loaded firearm.

:eyes:

http://cbs4.com/local/local_story_296181415.html

[Bozita]

29. ah, yes! ... Another MSM message massage.

[Divine Discontent]

45. lol! gotta twist it, don't they! n/t

[ConfidentialStatus]

64. Have you ever notice all versions

of news story start with armed and dangerous? It's scary... loaded firearm. He must be a criminal, how dare him to have a gun. The day I read over and over 100 million law abiding citizens are armed and friendly will be the day when free press and more than a handful of true patriots stand up to this nonsense.

However if the masses don't know the First & Second in the bill of rights... Maybe I'll never see that day.

If this post offended anyone, I'm about free choice so you can go back and be good obsequious citizens. If "official authority" makes one happy and safe in this cruel and bizarre jungle out there. I fully understand it's for your protection and security. :)

[KansDem]

32. I wonder what the cop's reason was for signaling him out while dozens of other citizens walked by?

This reminds me of an incident here in Kansas City (earlier this year?) when Bush came to town to attend a fund raiser and a swanky place in Mission Hills. We had gathered to protest on Ward Parkway, a street near the residence, and to jeer Il Duce when his motorcade drove nearby. Well, the KC cops were out and keeping us back--we were not allowed to cross the street to get nearer the house. Even a small group who tried to cross were subjected to angry cop threats. Then an older gentleman in civilian clothes came strolling onto the prohibited side of the street and stopped to converse with the officers. They were all smiles. I wondered how this man was able to stroll into forbidden territory unmolested yet if we had done the same, we'd be in a police car on our way to the station.

I guess the cops really do know who the "good" guys and the "bad" guys are...

[proud2BlibKansan]

55. I was there early that day and an Iraq vet was standing on the edge of the parkway

holding a sign that said "GEORGE BUSH MADE ME KILL WOMEN AND CHILDREN". A Mission cop drove by, slowed down and yelled "Fuck you" at the vet.

There were only about 10 of us there at that point. We all heard it and we got the number off of the cop car. We filed a complaint with the Mission cops. And we never heard zip about it after that. We even called the mayor's office. Nada.

Now please explain why a Mission, KANSAS cop was driving down Ward Parkway in MISSOURI and cursing at an Iraq war vet. It's been a year and it still just blows my mind.

[KansDem]

62. I hadn't heard that story!

I have no explanation. Maybe he was "backup?" I don't know what I would have done if I were there; I might have yelled something back and gotten in real trouble. I glad clearer heads prevailed!

I just don't know: it's as everything is building up...allowed to fester...building...just short of exploding now. I don't know what will happen when it does blow, but it will blow...it's just a matter of time...

I've never felt so uneasy...queasy...about the present and future of our country...and the world. It's like waiting for the other shoe to drop...a really big shoe.




____
"signaling"-I really meant to write "singling"

[bad_robbie]

63. Mission Cops

Now please explain why a Mission, KANSAS cop was driving down Ward Parkway in MISSOURI and cursing at an Iraq war vet.

I think it's because Mission cops are not very nice people, who threaten political candidates with arrest for handing out literature on public streets. I try to give them the finger every time they go by. I feel considerably more justified now after reading your post.

[proud2BlibKansan]

67. I know what incident you are referring to

I was there at that festival working for the Dem candidate. We were all appalled that the libertarian guy (sorry forgot his name) was treated that way.

My kids (they are in their 20s) were walking down Lamar a few months ago - on their way to HyVee. A Mission cop pulled over and asked them both for ID. My kids said he was an ass. They asked why he was hassling them and he said they didn't look like they belonged around there! And the clincher is this cop was black. My kid said he wanted to tell the cop that HE is the one who looks like he didn't belong there.

[roxnev]

36. The crime should

Be stopping free speech

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

37. Swine, Pig........................

Look at that guy, no wonder they call them PIGS!

[Voltaire99]

41. "The only terrorist most Americans will ever encounter..."

"... is a policeman with a badge, nightstick, mace and Taser."

Paul Craig Roberts, "An Epidemic of Police Brutality," Sept. 25, 2007

Here: http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts09252007.html

[Divine Discontent]

43. i love how the bossiest big guy

tries to take away the camera. amazing. "I DON'T CARE ABOUT CAMERAS! I CAN GET YOU OFF MY PROPERTY!"


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[CyrusV]

46. So much for freedom of the press on public property.

Stupid cop needs to go back to academy. He needs to relearn the laws, not to mention he really could lose a few pounds.

[stlsaxman]

51. he's not even a cop... he's a security guard for the school.

the company just put the word "Police" in his title.

on edit: i didn't see "school" on their badges so maybe they were real police... the OP says "school police" so that's my assumption.

any help on this?

[proud2BlibKansan]

57. The district where I teach has both

regular city cops assigned to our high schools and district security officers.

[Roland99]

47. But I thought the Fascists were PROUD of those new gun laws in FL making it easier to kill someone?

[Divine Discontent]

71. exactly

I thought they'd hoist him up and cheer him for having a piece on him?

[KG]

56. but, you know, we don't live in a police state.

nope.

[D23MIURG23]

58. Fascist Pigs.

[WilyWondr]

65. Visit their trough

A Miami TV reporter was charged with trespassing on school property while carrying a loaded handgun.

http://police.dadeschools.net

or send them a nice message

[e-mail]



Here piggy piggy.....:nuke:

[windoe]

66. Florida is so out of control.

They need to raise a Bushland flag with a skull & bones on it...the pirate flag of thugs that make up the rules as they go along...