Man who videotaped Alton Sterling's death was arrested at his job for assault & battery. After failing to produce a warrant the police held him on unpaid traffic tickets. He uses Uber to go to work and back home. Because of his arrest at work his supervisor told him not to return.
Christopher LeDay was arrested less than 24 hours after he posted video of #AltonSterling being shot and killed by Baton Rouge police officers. Police came to his job at Dobbins Air Force Base in and put the cuffs on him for alleged assault and battery.
LeDay’s lawyer says that he was taken in on false charges.
“He never had a warrant for an assault,” lawyer Tiffany Simmons told the station. “My client has never had any criminal history.”
She adds, “They never showed a warrant for an assault to my client, in fact my client was held in DeKalb County Jail for at least 26 hours and they never produced a warrant.”
Simons told that when police could not produce a warrant, she was then told her client was being held for unresolved traffic tickets.
After paying those tickets and trying to return to work, LeDay’s lawyer says he was turned away at the gate of the base for “security clearance issues.”
Yet, LeDay, who was just hired about six weeks ago, said his supervisor knew about the traffic tickets when he was hired.
“He should not be penalized or possibly retaliated against, he should not be embarrassed at his place of employment for doing what is right,” Simmons said.
This is not the first time the person who videotaped police murder has been harassed by cops.
Why don’t they want to clean that up, why they want that the hate against them increase?
“There’s a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.”
Actually even farmers are more than twice as likely to be killed in the line of duty. Being a cop hasnever been safer. They want it to be perceived as being horribly dangerous so they can get military weapons they don’t need and nobody with half a brain would trust them with.
#AltonSterling #BlackLivesMatter #CrookedCops #PoliceBrutality
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