When a Terre Haute, Indiana, man was arrested for not walking on a sidewalk on a street that doesn’t have one, the Police Accountability Report investigated. We obtained body camera and dashcam video evidence that offers a rare glimpse into the indifference of American law enforcement—evidence that not only contradicts the allegations made by the arresting officer, but that also reveals how difficult it is to escape the tendrils of this country’s law enforcement-industrial complex. Please join journalists Taya Graham and Stephen Janis for this important episode of the Police Accountability Report!
Read the transcript of this interview: https://therealnews.com/cop-arrested-a-man-for-not-walking-on-a-sidewalk-but-he-didnt-know-anyone-would-see-this-video
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Well, thank you. It is so nice to know that it is illegal to walk in the street. With growing numbers of people choosing to step off the sidewalk in the street with oncoming traffic. I'm tired of getting stared at for someone choosing to put themselves in harm's way.
I live in a neighborhood where there's not a single sidewalk on 8 different streets..
Who are the jury's in this country who still believe what police say😮
Bs wit the failing to identify charge cause I literally tell u my name and then you don’t even take the time to actually look like my name up and I arrest me for not walkin on the side walk that doesn’t even exist on that street
Terrifying!
Why hasn't this officer been fired?
Talk to these pigs: they need to start being held accountable !!! ACAB 1312
Sir: they was setting you up with the other black being beaten. ACAB 1312
Cops collect revenue that's their job
When are we going to wake up? Enough is enough it’s time for congressional intervention.
I empathize with this man I have been stopped walking around 10:00 . There are parts where there's no side walk and questioned by police. They ask if I have been drinking and where I was going. I even had to take a breath test. There was no probable cause or reason of suspicion to stop me. This is harassment.😢
And for how long you will be watching and recording police.? Thousands of people already in the Jail and can do anyting about what.
how long we will be watching them from the side.? And what can we do.?
Listen I live in Terre Haute… I have Jay walked, walked on the road, down the middle of it… This cop recognized him and wanted to nab him up. That's all I am saying. Pretty disgusting for real. They are here to protect and serve this guy is NOT COMMITING A CRIME.
The idea that you have to be careful of hurting the cops feelings because of retaliation. We give them weapons, if anything, that makes it more important. They have guns, tazers, clubs, batons and the protection of their costumes! What do the cops think, they think correctly that their little club is above the law. For the amount of video proof we see this is a very big part of an organization that get away with this bullshite. It should be important to hold those with weapons accountable!
Who gets arrested for not walking on the sidewalk. That's an absurd arrest. Obviously the type of arrest to just feed the system.
The fact that this stuff even gets process and make it to court proves our system is broken and need revision. The way its is now, anybody can become a criminal even when you're totally innocent and assert your constitutional rights.
Sounds like the whole system is already gone bad
let's just admit it he was arrested for walking while Black!
Common it's clearly a racial profiling stop by a racist cop but he couldn't say it afraid of retaliation.
We are a second world Country on our way to third world. Admit it.
You can see clear the reason most is the color skin