A freelance news videographer in Seattle lost his gig with a television station over a police abuse video they rejected after he posted the video on Youtube.
The video showed the customary abuse we expect from the Seattle Police Department; a cop kicking a detained suspect in the head after threatening to beat the “fucking Mexican piss” out of him.
It turned out, the suspect was completely innocent of armed robbery that got him detained.
Police then picked him up, brushed him off and sent him on his way.
The videographer, Jud Morris, ended up getting a video interview with the man, who had a fresh wound on his face from being face down on the ground, possibly from the kick that was caught on video.
The video also shows a female cop stomping on the suspect’s leg.
Morris, who was working for Q13 Fox news at the time, first approached them with the video, but they rejected it, telling him it was not newsworthy to see a cop kick an unarmed suspect in the head who later turns out to be innocent.
Morris, who as a freelancer owns all his work, then posted the video on Youtube.
He was fired the following day.
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Immigration, Information, Media, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: Civil Liberties, civil rights, Corruption, human rights, immigrant, Jud Morris, KIRO TV, Latino, police state, racism, Seattle, Seattle Police Department, secrecy, Shandy Cobane, Washington | Leave a comment »
Big Bear Observation Post 