Fort Collins, Colorado police used tear gas and mace to break up a riot involving as many as 400 people early Sunday morning, The Coloradoan reports. The riot began after an Earth, Wind & Fire performance at the NewWestFest music festival. Some people "threw beer bottles, patio furniture and other objects at police; they also damaged cars, stole items from festival vendor tents and set trash cans on fire," the paper reports.
A YouTube user has uploaded video that shows a San Francisco police officer throwing a resisting suspect to the ground, apparently knocking her unconscious. (at 1:10)
Far from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a freelance photographer for ProPublica gets detained by Texas City police and security from a BP refinery in Texas in new videos uploaded by the Galveston County Daily.
Lance Rosenfield, the photographer, was on assignment last week photographing the town from a public road when BP security began following him, according to his account on ProPublica's site. In the following clips, captured from what appears to be a police officer's dashboard camera, Rosenfield can be heard speaking with the security guard and the officer.
"Woah, is that legal to just share? I don't think that's legal to share," Rosenfield says when the security guard asks to get identity information from the police officer (6:15). "Your public police and i understand you're doing your job," he says later at 7:06, "but he's private security."
In the second clip from the scene at 0:16, Rosenfield says "Really my photograph has nothing to do with BP." Later, at 3:13 the security guard has a private chat with the police officer asking him for his phone number. "Let me call you in a couple minutes," he tells the officer, "so this guy doesn't sit back and have a hissy fit."
User name: GALVESTONCOUNTYDAILY Location: Texas City, Texas Date uploaded: July 9 Views: 9 User notes: City's policies on responding to journalists taking photographs or video near petrochemical facilities is under review after a photographer was detained while on assignment covering BP, officials said. Freelance photographer Lance Rosenfield was in Texas City on July 2 to get photos in and around BP's Texas City refinery for ProPublica. This is video from a police dash cam. Read more at http://www.galvnews.com. Click here to watch this video on YouTube.
Business owners along a stretch of Broadway in downtown Oakland, California are removing graffiti and repairing broken windows in the wake of last night's riot. At least 83 people were arrested for failing to disperse, resisting arrest, burglary, vandalism and assaulting a police officer, according to KGO-TV.
Videos posted to YouTube show looters breaking into a Foot Locker store in Oakland, Calif., after a verdict was announced in the trial of a former police officer who shot and killed an unarmed BART passenger, Oscar Grant.
On Thursday, a jury in Los Angeles found ex-BART police officer Johannes Mehserle guilty of involuntary manslaughter. Protesters who gathered in Oakland's streets complained Mehserle should have been found guilty of murder.
Oakland police began the evening clutching batons and declaring a downtown assembly following the conviction of Johannes Mehserle, a former BART police officer found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, "unlawful." This afternoon, Mehserle was found guilty for the murder of Oscar Grant, a man who was killed at a train station in downtown Oakland on New Year's Day, 2009. Police said those gathering in Grant's honor, in protest of the verdict, would face possible arrest or "serious injury" if they refused to disperse:
User name:MannyOrtez Location: Oakland, Calif. Date uploaded: July 8
Police and concert promoters shut down a planned outdoor concert at South Street Seaport in Manhattan on Tuesday because of crowd control issues. Thousands of people showed up for what was supposed to be a free concert by the hip-hop artist Drake and the pop group Hanson.
Videos uploaded to YouTube show fans throwing bottles, plates and even chairs off a balcony and onto the crowd gathered below, before police instruct everyone to leave.
A Seattle police officer was caught on video punching a 17-year old girl during an attempt to cite a group of young women for jaywalking. KOMO-TV reports the officer asked the girls to step over to his patrol car. As one of them struggled with the officer, the 17-year old intervened and placed her hands on the officer's arm, "causing the officer to believe she was attempting to physically affect the first subject's escape," police told the TV station.
The officer punches the girl in the face at 0:12 in this video, shot by a bystander with a cell phone camera.
A "homemade shrapnel grenade" exploded at a demonstration in Berlin, Germany on Saturday, injuring 15 police officers, two of them seriously. Thousands of people were gathered to protest the German government's plan to cut millions of dollars from federal programs, a move they said would increase the gap between the rich and the poor.
Police told reporters that officers were pelted with stones, bottles and then the explosive, which contained shards of glass or metal. They said it was thrown from the direction of a group of anti-capitalist protesters.
A citizen reporter's video uploaded to YouTube appears to shows Knoxville police kneeing and throwing a bystander onto the ground. The man is seen at the beginning of the video on the left side of the frame, observing police. As he walks away, two police officers push him against a wall and throw him to the ground. The videographer says the man was punched by police and was bleeding from his head.
User name: brokenjets Location: Knoxville, TN Date uploaded: June 13 Views: 79
The Paterson, New Jersey Police Department and county prosecutors have reportedly begun investigating a police officer caught on video apparently spraying pepper spray into the mouth of a suspect who was already in handcuffs and on the ground.
The woman who shot the video tells WABC-TV police believed the suspect had drugs in his mouth, so one of the officers went back to his patrol car to get the mace. In her video, police appear to spray the man starting at 1:03.
It's not clear when this video was shot, but it gives a good sense of what the police and military presence is like on the streets in Tehran. There are no clashes with protesters captured in this footage; in fact, things look quite calm and controlled.
The Independent Police Review Authority and Chicago police are looking into a video posted on the popular YouTube Web site that appears to show a uniformed Chicago police officer struggling with and verbally abusing a man who didn't heed the officer's order to get off a CTA bus.
The video, dated last Friday and apparently shot by another passenger, shows the officer getting on the bus in the 800 block of West Division Street and demanding the uncooperative passenger get off because he didn't pay his fare.
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