A woman was arrested for videotaping police from her front yard in Rochester, New York.
Emily Good, 28, was recording a traffic stop where police had a man handcuffed on May 12th. The video was uploaded to Blip TV today.
The cop who arrested her has been identified as Mario Masic, according to the Rochester Indy Media.
A man named Mario Masic who happens to be a police officer in western New York also runs a business called Harvest Moon Malamutes.
Mario Masic apparrently treats dogs better than he does camera-toting citizens
You can friend him on Facebook here. Or you can email him through his business email address at harvestmoonmalamutes@live.com.
The video, which has since gone viral, shows Masic hassling Good with absurd notions after he notices her recording.
“I don’t feel safe with you standing behind me, so I’m going to ask you to go into your house,”
“You seem very anti-police … due to what you said to me before you started taping me.”
It is not clear what Good said before she started recording, but if she said anything threatening, they would have arrested her at that moment.
She ended up getting handcuffed and taken away after she refused to walk into her house, even though she was clearly on her own property.
A friend or relative ended up taking the camera and we see her being led away.
Neighbors who witnessed the interaction confirmed she had done nothing wrong.
Meanwhile, the man they had originally handcuffed was released.
Mickey H. Osterreicher, attorney for the National Press Photographers Association, fired off a letter to Rochester Police Chief James Sheppard demanding that Good’s charges be dropped.
Sheppard told Osterreicher and the Democrat and Chronicle newspaper that he has ordered an investigation, which normally is police talk for sweeping it under the carpet until the media attention dies down.
This man should not be a police officer. From the video and his subsequent actions, he is proved a liar, lying under color of authority – a particularly vicious crime. He shames all police officers and besmirches the memory of my brother-in-law, who was gunned down in the line of duty by a real criminal. He never hassled unarmed young women taping him from their own yard, with nothing that even looked like a weapon. Of course, he was a real cop; this Mario Masic is obviously a young buck on a power trip. Masic should be fired and arrested for violating that woman’s civil rights. Anyone (read: average juror) who sees the video will agree with me. Get him off the force before he endangers another officer in a real situation.
He should unquestionable be fired. His actions will only become worse. I do not feel safe with Mario Masic serving as an officer of “the law”
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This one really made me fume. I found your article here searching for additions to my recent article-response on several recent arrests of similar and equally disgusting nature.
If interested, see: http://eccentricintelligenceagency.info/archives/2574 or simply google “police, abuse, video” etc.
A good article, and unforgettable event. Lets keep this circulating, even though it’s going to get real thick.
I forgot to mention a speckle of critical thinking:
What the hell would this moron do if he made a similar traffic stop in a populated area? Say for example outside of a Starbucks, or any various store? Would he ask everyone to go inside, or go home? This man should be posteriorly audited with an unlubricated Monsanto parsnip, repeatedly, and with great passion.
We do not need police officers who are afraid to make traffic stops in public. Will they demand their own private highway for private, safe traffic stops? Maybe in Disney World? Any officers who get intolerably nervous having an unsuspicious stranger standing 30 ft away on their own property are dangerous, and should be vigorously policed themselves – if not medicated by force.
The cop said, “You’re not following police orders.” Excuse me? Are we in a police state (actually, we are….) that the police can order us to do whatever they want for no reason at all? I think someone needs to explain to this police officer that he is there to protect the public, keep the peace, and not to harass private citizens who are on their own property, observing and documenting their actions.