👮♀️This Female Officer Never Takes Her Hand Off Her Gun🔫
Eldora, Iowa (Hardin County) — March 14, 2021.
First Amendment auditor Floyd Wallace was filming in public outside Eldora City Hall / Police Department.
Eldora PD Officer Brandi Valverde saw him on the sidewalk and approached cautiously. Then drew her handgun and ordered him to show his hands.
Civilian Troy McDonald, whose business was across the street saw her with her gun drawn and giving orders, so he pulled an AR-15 from his vehicle and pointed it at Wallace.
Wallace said he was unarmed and filming, identified McDonald as a civilian, and asked officers to press charges.
A Hardin County deputy arrived on scene but offered little to assist Wallace.
Hardin County Attorney Darrell Meyer later declined to charge McDonald, saying he saw an officer with her weapon drawn and a larger person in dark clothing/mask who was not immediately complying, then lowered the rifle.
No charges were filed.
Wallace posted video of the encounter.
No word on if the female officer is still an officer.
After watching the video:
❓Does this female officer seemed trained or prepared for encountering a man with a camera?
❓What would have happened if McDonald had fired?
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This kid died because getting sexually assaulted by an officer scared him.
The officer wasn’t allowed to continue to sexually assault him so he shot him instead.
😡This incredible video will raise your blood pressure.
A man named Daniel stood on a public street in Des Moines, Iowa photographing the outside of a police station and unmarked cars in a rear lot.
Perfectly legal.
Det. Bradley Youngblood, Lt. Joseph Leo, and Sgt. Christopher Curtis surrounded him. A whole group huddled up, trying to invent a legal reason to force his ID and maybe arrest him for taking pictures from a sidewalk.
Youngblood — the senior guy — threatened to and did seize Daniel’s camera and phone and later forensically dumped everything on them.
No warrant for the seizure. No crime. Just “you won’t explain yourself.”
Eventually they released him.
He sued. Eighth Circuit said the officers violated his rights. City paid him $125,000.
Watch the video for yourself and see the pressure they applied. Those guys really hated being told no.
One guy with a camera doing nothing illegal.
❓Why was his phone and camera REALLY taken?
❓Did it REALLY have anything to do with the photos he'd taken that day or was it so they could search the devices in hopes of finding a serious crime?
❓Is this a case of, "we don't like this guy or what he's doing, how can we pin something on him"?
🤠⭐️"You're trespassed from there forever."
May 19, 2013 — after the Jordan Valley Big Loop Rodeo in Jordan Valley, Malheur County, Oregon.
Steve Hindi, president of animal-rights group SHARK, was asked to leave the rodeo over filming. He paid admission, then left.
Malheur County Sheriff’s Deputies Brian Belnap and Brian Beck followed him about 10 miles and found him parked on the side of the road.
On Belnap’s body cam, the stated reason: Hindi “failed to provide ID” after being “trespassed from the sporting event,” and they needed ID because the car didn’t come back to him.
Belnap then told Hindi he was permanently trespassed from Jordan Valley Rodeo Club property and would be arrested if he returned.
Hindi said he was never formally trespassed at the grounds and left when asked.
Later FOIA audio captured the deputies discussing that the rodeo had asked him to leave rather than trespass him while they were there, and worry about a lawsuit.
Then-Sheriff Brian Wolfe said there was no probable cause for a crime or traffic violation and that the deputies were following a supervisor’s direction.
SHARK said a lawsuit against the county later settled for about $25,000.
The lesson for cops and civilians is the same: finish the contact at the property, or don’t restart it on the highway without a new, independent reason.
❓What’s the difference between “asked to leave” and “trespassed”?
❓When does protecting a rodeo become using the badge as private security?