HIT THE OCCUPY or TRUMP RALLY, SHOOT THE SKINHEADS, SHOOT THE COPS, SHOOT THE BULLIES.

Spread the News

Imagine getting word from your friend that an overnight protest is going to take place downtown. Has to do with BABY BOOMERS starving to death, found frozen in l rm. apts, no heat as they get no UTILITY help, no FOOD STAMPS. Lotta dead people and there's this BIG OCCUPY DEMONSTRATION. You want to capture this SPECIAL protest on video and share it with your community, so you go to the location and record it. After the protest, you upload it to YouTube and send it to your local news station. Thanks to your diligence, your community learns about the protest. GOOD YOU!

Occupy Wall Street Protest on the Brooklyn Bridge in NY (2011)

You've just participated in citizen journalism. This lesson will cover the industry-standard definition of citizen journalism and go over several publicized examples of citizen journalism.

NOW. IMAGINE you shot the PROTEST and happened to catch the COP beating and shaking an OLD LADY who sadly brought her CANE to the protest,she's white haired, crippled and yeah was holding cane up a bit, but when he slugged her, she fell over and hit her head. NOW BLOOD IS STREAMIG. WOTTA SHOT!  YOU SEND THAT FILM to every truth telling website, TO YOU TUBE AND to CHANNELS 2,4,7 and 11. YOU ARE FORWARDING ISSUES, GETTING FOLKS ALL CHOKED UP AND ANGRY and WHEN THEY ENTER THE DISSIDENT STREAM,  CHANGING THE FUTURE.

NOW. IMAGINE that your friend has a pocket full of biz cards on him reading: "YOU WERE SEVERELY HURT. HAVE YOUR LAWYER CONTACT US as we SHOT THE EVIDENCE, have it on VIDEO." And include an email or FONE #. Get a NON-I.D. FONE for that kind of work. YOUR HELPING THEM SUE will get you a 3% finder's fee, say a ten mill law suit? That's 100 GRAND for you. 3 mil for lawyer rest for the poor old lady's grandkids

Defining Citizen Journalism

Journalism experts agree that citizen journalism is the collecting and reporting of information via social media, public platforms, and traditional news outlets, either by non-traditional sources or the public. For example, police officers or city clerks could operate as citizen journalists if they were to release information about an incident. Citizen journalism has become increasingly popular with the rise in popularity of smart phones. However, an early example of citizen journalism can be found as far back as 1963.

Exploring Examples of Citizen Journalism

The Assassination of JFK

Before smart phones and Twitter, people used standalone movie and video cameras to record events. When President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963, Abraham Zapruder recorded the event with his home movie camera. The footage, which showed the shooting of Kennedy as his car drove through Dallas, Texas, would eventually be seen around the nation on all major news outlets. It is said to prove that the shots came from FRONT AND SIDE, not from BEHIND and UP where OSWALD SAT IN WINDOW. GOV was anxious as they DELETED the FILM where his head shot BACKWARDS from the blow

SO imagine that YOU SHOOT THAT BIG EVENT SENIOR SLUGGED & TIPPED OVER  BLEEDING ON GROUND FROM ANTSY BULLY COP. Offer your PHOTOS to the SENIOR's lawyers and the big NEWS ORGS and get paid! (see URLS below) JUST BE ON THE ALERT FOR COPS WATCHING YOU. CITIZEN JOURNALISTS MUST BE CAREFUL!  "PEACE OFFICERS" IN SOME CITIES ARREST YOU FOR THAT VIDEO CAMERA or CELL PHONE trained on their pranks, EVEN IF IT IS ILLEGAL for them TO DO SO  ! So USE SPY CAMERA GLASSES. Or take the shot and quick put camera behind your SMALL PICKET SIGN.

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 from http://fair.org/home/nypds-arrests-of-citizen-journalists-should-spark-outrage/


NYPD’s Arrests of Citizen Journalists Should Spark Outrage !
By Josmar Trujillo

Copwatching activist Dennis Flores was arrested at a protest in The Bronx
while cops were beating one of his students.

THEIR POWERFUL, INTERESTING WEBSITE is:
https://voicesofny.org/2012/07/wielding-a-camera-activist-fights-police-misconduct/

RECENTLY, New York City police officers arrested four well-known activists for filming them. "Copwatchers" —the NEW URBAN HEROES!!! People who regularly film and document police activity—have often been targeted by cops who don’t want to be recorded, despite reminders that recording police interactions is legal in the city.

While legal protections for filming police are still unclear in some parts of the country, the invaluable role that copwatchers play as journalists—acting as the eyes, ears and media of the streets—deserves to be recognized. (#1 Always carry your CELL PHONE and when you see UNITS parked and pranks about to happen, put your hand near the "RECORD" BUTTON!  #2 Your purse or briefcase shadows the SUN from falling on what's in your hand so that it looks like you are holding up a briefcase, nothing more. #3 EMAIL the photo to yourself or a LIST quickly, so that you SHOOT. SEND. SHOOT SEND. Do this with a cheap disposable rather than costly IPHONE if you can carry two full time. At rallies do not carry the thousand buck one.

Much was made in the media about the 2014 arrests of the Huffington Post‘s Ryan Reilly and the Washington Post‘s Wesley Lowery by local police in Ferguson, Missouri, after the police killing of Michael Brown. HuffPo released a statement condemning Reilly’s arrest. The Society of Professional Journalists, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and the Columbia Journalism Review also objected. Reilly, a reporter at media powerhouse Huffington Post (where this article's writer occasionally blogs), and Lowery, who has produced some top-notch copaganda since then (FAIR Blog, 2/12/16), BOTH were roughed up and arrested, apparently for nothing.

A few months later, CNN‘s Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo would be ducking tear gas canisters as a militarized police response to protests over Michael Brown’s death at hands of a St. Louis (FERGUSON) COP...was netting even mainstream media members in its sweep.

When a Time magazine photographer was neck-slammed WWE-style by a Secret Service goon at a Trump event last month, social media lit up with outrage. Most outraged were members of the media, reporters and photographers alike, aghast that this could happen to one of them. A photog from Time magazine, can you imagine? Freedom of the press was being violated at Trump’s rallies—never mind the protesters who’d been assaulted before and since.

Similar solidarity among the media was expressed for a New York Times photographer, Robert Stolarik, who was falsely arrested for interfering with an arrest in 2012 by supposedly flashing pictures in a cop’s face (Stolarik’s camera didn’t have a flash.) What Stolarik had done was essentially copwatch. Over a dozen reporters stood with him outside of a Bronx courtroom as he faced down the cop who’d arrested him.

While the media shared a sense of violation that they could be as casually brutalized or arrested as any one of us, for Stolarik there was also the satisfaction of actually having the cop who arrested him punished. The NYPD officer who arrested Stolarik was convicted of a felony for falsifying a report. Convictions, of course, are a rare outcome for police who falsely arrest, or even kill, people of color.

So this all begs the question of whether members of mainstream media, with their giant news organizations to back them, should be the only ones accorded the at least theoretical protections afforded by freedom of the press. Members of the copwatching collective WeCopwatch; GOOGLE journalist Raymond Orta, who filmed Eric Garner's death, at hands of the cop CIRCLED IN RED.

VISIT AND JOIN the band of HARDY SOULS, URBAN HEROES,  SEE the  copwatching collective called WeCopwatch;  and find pics of Ramsey Orta, who filmed Eric Garner’s death. https://twitter.com/LyricCabral/status/763080994836647936

All of the copwatchers and activists who were arrested last week in New York City are doing the work that most traditional media are unwilling and incapable of doing. Dennis Flores, a longtime copwatching advocate, was arrested Monday night while filming cops who were chasing a protest through the Bronx. Five Mualimmak, a criminal justice activist, and Jazz Hayden, a longtime activist and media-maker in his own right, were arrested Tuesday night filming the police interact with a homeless man in Midtown Manhattan. The following night, Ramsey Orta, who made the infamous video of an NYPD officer choking and killing 43-year old Eric Garner in Staten Island, was locked up after recording a cop arresting a man in the Lower East Side.

There was also the arrest of  photographer/activist Michael Nigro as he took pictures of the NYPD at a march against Donald Trump on Saturday. Nigro had just a few weeks prior blogged a passionate and prescient piece at HuffPo titled “Let’s All Commit Acts of Citizen Journalism” (3/3/16), which said in part:

    Having witnessed the news of their lives being dismissed or ignored, more and more people have put their bodies on the line, their ink on the page and their images on the web. With defiance, tenacity and boots-on-the-ground bravery—and often with little or no financial backing—independent and citizen journalists are utilizing tools of the digital age to change the conversation at a grassroots level.

It so happened that Nigro was violently arrested by Deputy Inspector Andrew Lombardo, the same head of the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group who was hounding protesters on Monday night in the Bronx (and who sharpened his skills at the Abu Ghraib US military prison in Iraq). Perhaps the police can also no longer distinguish between protester and journalist. More likely they can and just don’t care. But to Nigro’s point, regardless of whether cops care about one’s right to speak and protest, or document and report, it’s our responsibility to blur those lines and flood the system with a blend of all of those elements: citizen journalism.

As the name suggests, the mantle of “citizen journalist” belongs to everyone using media to document their reality. But not everyone is afforded the same rights.

While the New York Daily News was awarded a local Emmy this past weekend stemming from its publishing of the Eric Garner video, Ramsey Orta, who shot the video, has been a frequent target of police. There is no media outrage. No reporters stand by his side. And yet he and members of other local copwatch groups, like Copwatch Patrol Unit and Flores’ El Grito de Sunset Park, are producing media every day, challenging the official police narrative that’s often regurgitated by local reporters.

Orta and others are the media. Not only are they willing and able to document what happens on the street, their life experiences give them insights that most members of the media don’t have. This is particularly crucial when dealing with issues of policing or criminal justice, which impact communities of color the most. These copwatchers are independent and self-organized volunteers. What protections can we provide for them? It’s not enough to simply say they should be allowed to film. We should be collectively outraged when they are arrested or harassed. For a copwatcher/citizen journalist, having police arrest you, confiscate your phone, erase the footage (as often happens) would be the equivalent of law enforcement raiding the offices of CNN, MSNBC or Fox News and destroying their files and equipment.

If freedom of the press means anything, it should protect the growing number of people who use media to hold powerful institutions accountable. If it doesn’t protect copwatching, then it’s totally useless.

Amateur videos of police brutality incidents or of protests and direct action that would be otherwise ignored by the mainstream media: These are expressions of both free speech and of emerging popular media that create a new dialogue that challenges power. This combination of independent media-makers and damning videos is how we can put dents all over the system, together.

Josmar Trujillo is a former columnist for Extra! who writes at the Huffington Post, Newsday and amNY. He is also an organizer with the Coalition to End Broken Windows and New Yorkers Against Commish Bill (BULLY) Bratton.

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