A local cop was convicted yesterday of assault for kicking an arrested man in the head causing him medical problems. The chief of police of the department the ex-cop worked for has asked for a restraining order against the ex-cop because he made threats against him.
is he allowed to do that?
Well, no. At least not on adults.
a move that was [banned] for Wisconsin law enforcement officers last year.
A 12 yr old ferchrissakes.
Insufficient evidence. He is caught ON CAMERA punching a handcuffed kid and is shown being physically pulled away from said kid BY ANOTHER POLICE OFFICER.
What, pray tell, would be sufficient evidence?
Diaz was on paid administrative leave. That means…he was on vacation.
“Sir, I’d like to request a vacation.”
“You know the drill, go punch some kid or shoot someone.”
Title says it all. Granted immunity to rat on his so-criminals.
They were stealing money, drugs, planting evidence to frame people. They were worse than the other criminals they were arresting.
Police blasting Disney music to prevent their actions from going up on social media:
OK, um,
because, you know, we do not want children harmed by exposure to Disney music.
Actually, wouldn’t the police get fined by BMI for playing copyrighted music in public?
I think it was 11:00 p.m. or so. I don’t care that the blasting music happens to be kid friendly when my kids are sleeping.
It is usually considered “fair use” if you are not making a monetary profit from playing the music. Now, if the youtuber had a partner or partners on camera dancing to the it, the police might conceivably face a royalty dunning for using the music for public entertainment purposes.
You’re missing the point.
They were playing Disney music to prevent the person recording them from putting whatever extralegal thing they were up to from ending up on YouTube and Reddit for public display.
I know that I cannot put on a free public concert with copyrighted music. If it is not a private event, then you have to get a license for it.
And, if the police somehow can successfully claim fair use in publically broadcasting it, then a youtuber who picks up that song while filming the police should be able to do so as well.
Well, if you are sitting in the park playing your boom box (do those still exist?) it might be perceived as public performance, because other people can hear and enjoy/be annoyed by it. Realistically, your public dissemination of the music is generally regarded as personal cosumption with, idk, leakage I guess.
In the case of the police, one could reasonably say that they are actively using the music for a specific purpose, a sort of job-related tool. As they are not playing it for personal consumption but literally making use of it for a professional end, there should be royalties attached, and the PD should be charged for every view the video gets.
How Disney woud feel about that may be another story entirely.
Should, yes.
But in reality, YouTube automatically identifies copyrighted music algorithmically, with basically the same process as Shazam or SoundCloud, and blocks the video instantly. It’s not a human process. You can appeal, but it goes to a massive outsourced contractor warehouse where some minimum wage overseas drone with zero background in US intellectual property law spends 1.75 seconds looking at a graph that shows the copyrighted song was identified with 96% confidence, and denies the appeal. The poster has fully legal grounds for posting the video but also has zero real-world recourse for getting it past the filters. The whole process is fundamentally broken, and the cops maliciously exploit it.
Youtube’s copyright bots don’t care about that. They take down anything they can.
Agreed.
Other than going to the press, which probably spread the story a whole lot further than if they had simply uploaded the video to youtube.
Are you familiar with the concept of going viral? Millions of people can see a video within a few days. Unless you are on a major news network, you will never get this coverage from “the press”. Certainly not unfiltered coverage. And despite what the apologists for crooked police tell you, “the press” is deep, deep in the copaganda business.
Can, sure. But this incident looked pretty run of the mill other than the music. Nothing that was actually being videod here would have gone viral, they’d be lucky to get dozens of views of police investigating a car theft.
And even if there is something worth going viral over, that doesn’t in any way guarantee it will.
And yet, here we are, talking about a press story about it. If I put “California police blasting Disney music” into google, the whole first page lights up with stories about it from a dozen different outlets.
In fact, pretty much every controversial police incident that was recorded I didn’t hear about by it going viral and it ending up in my youtube feed, I found out about it because the press picked up the story.