NYPD Brands Couple as Professional Agitators for Posting Videos of Outrageous ‘Stop and Frisks’
July 9th, 2012Via: New York Post:
A pair of Occupy Wall Street lovebirds has been branded “professional agitators” by the NYPD, who have plastered their mugs on flyers the couple says look like wanted posters.
Christina Gonzalez, 25, and Matthew Swaye, 34, of Harlem say they’ve been singled out for simply posting dozens of videos on YouTube of cops conducting stop-and-frisks.
“What we do is not a crime,” said Swaye, adding that the NYPD flyer looks more like a “wanted poster” than a police department advisory.
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The couple said they first learned they were featured in an NYPD be-on-the-watch poster when they attended a precinct council meeting at the 30th Precinct stationhouse in Harlem on Thursday.
The poster with their mug shots from previous arrests for civil disobedience was taped to a precinct podium.
“Be aware that above subjects are known professional agitators,” read the flyer, warning cops that the “subjects’ MO” is to videotape officers “performing routine stops and post on YouTube.”
“Subjects’ purpose is to portray officers in a negative way,” the poster reads.
Documenting the actions of public servants is not a crime either.
I keep thinking that maybe when all our parents die that things will change, because it seems (to me anyway) that only the older generation still regards policemen with any self-esteem, instead of regarding them in the proper light: as career criminals.
Both of my parents and my wife’s parents are dead. We can’t wait for the rest of you.