{"id":3734,"date":"2007-10-19T12:12:01","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T19:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/19\/cops-taser-citizen-for-videotaping-them\/"},"modified":"2007-10-19T12:12:01","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T19:31:49","slug":"cops-taser-citizen-for-videotaping-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3734","title":{"rendered":"Cops Taser Citizen For Videotaping Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huzzah for my hometown! Portland, Oregon, wooooooo!<\/p>\n<p>So a man was videotaping the police searching his next-door-neighbors property.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogtown.portlandmercury.com\/2007\/10\/todays_cop_lawsuit_number_four.php\">Without warning, cops<\/a> charged at Waterhouse, ordered him to put down the camera, and then shot him with a beanbag gun and a Taser as he was video recording them. As a result, the officers issued criminal citations against Waterhouse, although he was acquitted of all charges.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the cops <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oregonlive.com\/multimedia\/2007\/10\/four_sue_police_alleging_dirty.html\">justified the attack<\/a> in a report by writing &#8220;He had refused to drop the camera which could be used as a weapon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><embed src='http:\/\/www.brightcove.tv\/playerswf' bgcolor='#FFFFFF' flashVars='allowFullScreen=true&#038;initVideoId=1243494890&#038;servicesURL=http:\/\/www.brightcove.tv&#038;viewerSecureGatewayURL=https:\/\/www.brightcove.tv&#038;cdnURL=http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com&#038;autoStart=false' base='http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com' name='bcPlayer' width='486' height='412' allowFullScreen='true' allowScriptAccess='always' seamlesstabbing='false' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' swLiveConnect='true' pluginspage='http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash'><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>Waterhouse is suing for $30,000. I&#8217;m sure that me and other Portlanders can feel that paying off citizens who are attacked by cops for pretending this isn&#8217;t a fascist country is a very good use of our tax dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huzzah for my hometown! Portland, Oregon, wooooooo! So a man was videotaping the police searching his next-door-neighbors property. Without warning, cops charged at Waterhouse, ordered him to put down the camera, and then shot him with a beanbag gun and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3734\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}