Denver Police seize tablet, delete video of brutal arrest. But it had backed up to “the cloud”.
Late in August, Levi Frasier saw a violent scene unfolding on the street before him. So he decided to use his tablet to record it.
As plain-clothed men repeatedly punch a Latino man in the face, they can be heard shouting: “Spit the drugs out! Spit the drugs out!”
In the background, a woman is screaming “stop” in Spanish. Two uniformed officers rush up and help restrain the man — and knock the feet out from beneath the visibly pregnant 25-year-old. She lands on her stomach and face.
Some 55 seconds later, someone shouted “camera”.
A police officer stormed up to the witness, who was white, snatching his device from his hands and threatens him with arrest.
“When he took it, I said, ‘Hey! You can’t do that. You need a warrant for that!’ and he said, ‘What program did you take the video with? Where is that?’” Frasier later told Fox 31 News.
The police officer proceeded to search through his files.
“The first officer that comes up to ask me about my witness statement brings me to the police car and says we could do this the easy way or we could do this the hard way,” Fraser said.
“It was survival mode. It was like, ‘Okay, I’m going to make it out of here. Not going to go to jail today for something I didn’t have anything to do with,’” Frasier said.
When police eventually returned his tablet, the video evidence was gone.
“I couldn’t believe it. My heart dropped,” Frasier said. “I know I just shot that video, like it’s not on there now?”
Frasier had forgot he’d set his tablet to automatically upload files to the “cloud”, external storage services fed by mobile communications devices such as 4G phone and Wi-Fi links.
The FBI has now started an investigation into the case. x
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Most mass murderers do not go from zero to 60. Rodger made escalating assaults on women (splashing coffee on them, attempting to shove them off a ledge) before his killing spree. Both Cho and Justin-Jinich’s murderer harassed women before they killed anyone. When such acts go unnoticed and unpunished — because we expect men to harass women, and it’s not outrageous or even noteworthy when they do — they can become stepping-stones to more conspicuous and less socially acceptable acts of violence.
Interesting to note that while a history of animal cruelty is widely accepted to be a link with becoming a serial killer, the link between cruelty towards women and killing women is still up for debate. If a guy abuses a cat and then shoots women we say “we should have seen it coming that guy was nuts”, but if abuses women and then shoots women we say “we had no way of seeing it coming that guy was a perfectly polite, kind and wonderful human”.
(via marxisforbros)
I’m sorry about this but…
I’ll be the biggest hypocrite if I cry and cry about Ferguson while ignoring what’s happening in my home country.
Tumblr has a terrible rep for ignoring the issues in Latin American countries. 43 students were killed in Mexico. Many more bodies were found. Women continue to be murdered. The police is disguising themselves as protestors and committing violent acts to “prove” the protests are not in the interest of the students.
The tragedy and injustice in Ferguson deserves the attention it’s getting and more, but who will speak for my people if not those of us who can?
Do not forget Ayotzinapa.
Please read up on this:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/disappeared-students-in-mexico-global-struggle-for-ayotzinapa-captures-worlds-attention/5415453
https://ayotzinapasomostodos.wordpress.comThis article explains who the victims were:
http://fusion.net/video/24660/see-exclusive-video-of-missing-ayotzinapa-students-before-their-disappearance/Do not trust: mainstream Mexican media (Televisa, Univision, etc), Time Magazine, New York Times, Latin times. Do not trust any media that seems to take a neutral stance on this. Do not trust any media that displays Peña Nieto as someone who cares.
He and his family were in China while protests erupted in Mexico. His wife was recently discovered to own an 8 million DOLLAR house. Not pesos, dollars. She claims she paid for it herself, when the biggest Hollywood stars don’t make that much.
Here’s a satirical article on that (in Spanish):
http://eldeforma.com/2014/11/19/ya-salieron-las-fotos-de-casa-de-chabelo-tras-conocer-el-sueldo-de-la-gaviota-en-televisa/The US government doesn’t care about it’s black people. The Mexican government doesn’t care about anyone below upper middle class. We are murdered and the media tells us “this isn’t a big deal”. The media is dividing Mexico and creating apathy to keep us from uniting against our Government.
Support a coup d’état in Mexico. Spread the news. Do not give in to apathy.It would be good to note this isn’t the only case of disgusting violence caused by our goverment. This isn’t the only crime against students or the middle class that ended in murder and injustice. This isn’t the first time our goverment works with the organized crime to get away with something. This has happened before. Many times. People in our goverment have gotten away with mass murder, money laundering, kidnapping, and drug related crimes among other things. Ayotzinapa is only one of many.
Other examples of goverment/police/military abuse and violence:
- The Tlatelolco Massacre, October 2, 1968 College students pacific protests showed discontet towards the goverment, and President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz sent the army to gun them down. The goverment’s control over the media back then was so huge that, to this date, we still don’t know the exact number of unarmed civilians that were killed.
- Aguas Blancas Massacre, June 28, 1995 17 farmers killed, 21 harmed after they were ambushed by police on their way to protest against the state’s negligence towards the country side. They wanted to demand food, schools, hospitals and drinking water.
- Acteal Massacre, December 22, 1997 Paramilitary group murders an indigenous pacific group attending a prayer meeting. 45 people killed, including pregnant women and children.
- Police Brutality, San Salvador Atenco, 2006 Flower merchants had a second encounter with police. They used violence again, killing two protestors, randomly arresting more than 140 people and then sexually assaulting over 25, including elders and minors. Our now president used to be the governor of the state of Mexico back then and did nothing about it.
- Hermosillo Daycare Fire, 2009 A warehouse operated by the state government was burned down to destroy documents of the public debt of the state. The daycare next to it (federally funded without the proper safety measurements) caught fire as well. 49 toddlers died in result.
(x) full video in spanish (warning, blood and strong images)
We started off demanding justice in the name of the families of the Ayotzinapa students, but this has evolved into an anger that has reminded mexicans what our goverment has done to its people before. We are sick of living like this. None of us can trust neither the police nor the army since most of them are corrupt and vicious and will do more damage than good to the citizens.
We have suffered this abuse and fear for as long as we can remember, but it just keeps getting worse. This is the ONE TIME the whole world is listening to us, to our story. Please don’t let those voices fade away.
Please keep spreading the word and keep us in your prayers, because this violence is far from over.
STAY WOKE
Please pay attention to the what is happening in your world right now…
-Ferguson/Michael Brown
-Mexico/ 43 missing (kidnapped) students
-Hong Kong/protest against the government for democracy
-Sierra Leone, Guinea & Liberia/still fighting Ebola
-The Middle East/ISIS and other terrorist groups killing innocent people everyday
-Nigeria/Boko Haram and the kidnapping of 300 school girlsI know there’s way more feel free to add them
