Drop Your Phone Now! After a Group of Neuropeons Sic the IN Police on a Black Man for Filming w/His Cell Phone, White Cops Use Their Uncontrollable Power to Detain Him @ Gunpoint and Threaten His Life
/From [FTP] In an exclusive interview with the Free Thought Project, activist and First Amendment auditor, Floyd Wallace told FTP that he went to Clinton County and was walking around filming in public. He had committed no crime but being black and filming apparently set off a resident who called police to report him — for filming.
Clinton County Sheriff’s deputy B. Knapp shows up to the call and is apparently afraid of his own shadow. Within a few seconds of arriving to Wallace’s location, he pulls his gun out and points it at the innocent man. His gun would not go back in its holster for nearly five minutes.
“I was just walking around filming in public when they pulled guns on me,” Wallace tells the Free Thought Project.
The cop demanded Wallace “drop his phone” and stop filming but this would have ended the documentation of this incident. The officer could have shot him and simply claimed he feared for his life and that, as they say, would’ve been that.
Showing just how scared these deputies are of a black man filming is the fact that deputy Knapp called for backup and another deputy arrived and pointed an AR-15 at Wallace. He was then handcuffed and interrogated — for filming.
Wallace was then handcuffed and detained as a half dozen other cops show up to investigate a black man filming.
After Wallace refused to have his rights trampled, the cops were forced to leave as they had nothing on which to detain him.
At the end of the video, Wallace confronts the people who likely reported him. They yell at him and claim that Wallace was walking on the side of a building looking in windows — a claim he denies and has the video to prove it — yet not illegal at all.
Even if Wallace was attempting to provoke a response by filming in public, his actions were not criminal and therefore his subsequent treatment of being held at gunpoint for five minutes, unsubstantiated.
This is what filming in public looks like in 2020.