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06-04-2006, 01:12 AM
I wrote on my blog recently about using my cellphone (http://tvphotogblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/cell-phone-stalkingcourt-house-style.html) to have pictures of 2 defendents I needed to get video of in the crowd of several hundred. Apparantly my thoughts didn't sit well with 2 people who visited my blog. One of the comments (http://tvphotogblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/cell-phone-stalkingcourt-house-style.html#c114817646134018928) came from an aquaintence of one of the defendants...and she threatens me with physical harm in a backhanded kind of way. The other comment (http://tvphotogblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/cell-phone-stalkingcourt-house-style.html#c114935764403786663) was similar and continued to badmouth us newsies.
Here are the comments....I responded to them point for point on the blog... (http://tvphotogblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/flying-circlesbeing-vulture-is-just.html)
At 9:54 PM, May 20, 2006 (http://tvphotogblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/cell-phone-stalkingcourt-house-style.html#c114817646134018928), Anonymous said... It seems to me that, from a news standpoint, you might realize that there are TWO sides to every story. The media has done all it can to hype up the sympathy for this ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT who died while in a struggle with law enforcement officers in jail. Why was he in jail? Let me list just a few of the charges...DRUNK DRIVING, hit-and-run, reckless endangerment, resisting arrest...and while he was in jail, he became agitated & violent, threatening others with a broken-off mop handle...he had to be placed in restraints because he got so out of hand!! How can you news people not see that maybe - just maybe - this is simply a case of self-defense on behalf of the officers? The inmate had to be shot with a taser gun and he STILL would not settle down and act like he had some sense. Language barrier or not, anyone can tell what is trying to be communicated in this type of situation. The officers were trying to take away a WEAPON that the prisoner was using to provoke others in the jail. But the media only wants to show the public the most sensational and attention-grabbing side of the story about this "poor imigrant" who was in this country to support his family back home. BIG DEAL!!! You people disgust me with your hot-shot stories and you make no attempt what-so-ever to gather all of the information to present a thorough report. Leave those two officers alone! They were doing their jobs, and you vultures just want to shove a camera in their faces & put them on public display as if they are the criminals. They're not!! And by the way, I am the "other lady" who laid on the horn when you were hounding Officer Huie...I should have tried to run one of you idiots over instead. How's THAT for a news story?!?
(http://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9713529&postID=114817646134018928) At 2:00 PM, June 03, 2006 (http://tvphotogblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/cell-phone-stalkingcourt-house-style.html#c114935764403786663), Anonymous said... I have to say that I agree with the above statement. At this point now, I'm sure you've decided not to continue reading the following statements because they don't agree with yours. I'm curious to know, while you're busy staking out the courthouse, are you getting paid? I ask because I wonder if you've ever worked a job/career where you are expected to put your life on the line everyday! Inmates are in prison/jail for a reason, they broke the law! While I don't disagree that sometimes things happen and innocent people end up in jail by mistake, those people generally don't threaten those around them. Especially, those who are essentially their "care takers" while in jail. The media has gone crazy lately. I don't believe 95% of the stuff reported in the papers or on the news anymore. While doctors and nurses, etc are held by a code of ethics, it doesn't seem that reporters have any type of ethics, responsibility, honesty, decency, etc. They gather a few tidbits of info that may or maynot be true, twist it and turn it until it's absolutely no resemblence of what it started to be just to beat the competition in "getting the story out 1st". We already have a shortage in alot of significant professions, such as nursing. Law enforcement is not much better. I think I will see the day in my time when we have such a shortage, no where will be safe to live. No one will want to be in law enforcement, etc because everybody is "sue happy" these days. Why not? People are too lazy to work and are looking for the easy buck! What better way than to turn self defense into murder. Not only does your family get an express pass to be here legally, but they also don't have to worry about lawyer expenses because the taxpayers that live here legally and are law abiding citizens will take care of that bill, not to mention whatever comes from all of the civil suits the family's ambulance chasing lawyer choses to file! What the heck, maybe I'll take off to another country and live. Oh, yeah, other countries don't allow illegal immigrants to have more civil rights than their own citizens!! Only in America right! The Land of Opportunity!!
Here are the comments....I responded to them point for point on the blog... (http://tvphotogblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/flying-circlesbeing-vulture-is-just.html)
At 9:54 PM, May 20, 2006 (http://tvphotogblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/cell-phone-stalkingcourt-house-style.html#c114817646134018928), Anonymous said... It seems to me that, from a news standpoint, you might realize that there are TWO sides to every story. The media has done all it can to hype up the sympathy for this ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT who died while in a struggle with law enforcement officers in jail. Why was he in jail? Let me list just a few of the charges...DRUNK DRIVING, hit-and-run, reckless endangerment, resisting arrest...and while he was in jail, he became agitated & violent, threatening others with a broken-off mop handle...he had to be placed in restraints because he got so out of hand!! How can you news people not see that maybe - just maybe - this is simply a case of self-defense on behalf of the officers? The inmate had to be shot with a taser gun and he STILL would not settle down and act like he had some sense. Language barrier or not, anyone can tell what is trying to be communicated in this type of situation. The officers were trying to take away a WEAPON that the prisoner was using to provoke others in the jail. But the media only wants to show the public the most sensational and attention-grabbing side of the story about this "poor imigrant" who was in this country to support his family back home. BIG DEAL!!! You people disgust me with your hot-shot stories and you make no attempt what-so-ever to gather all of the information to present a thorough report. Leave those two officers alone! They were doing their jobs, and you vultures just want to shove a camera in their faces & put them on public display as if they are the criminals. They're not!! And by the way, I am the "other lady" who laid on the horn when you were hounding Officer Huie...I should have tried to run one of you idiots over instead. How's THAT for a news story?!?
(http://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9713529&postID=114817646134018928) At 2:00 PM, June 03, 2006 (http://tvphotogblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/cell-phone-stalkingcourt-house-style.html#c114935764403786663), Anonymous said... I have to say that I agree with the above statement. At this point now, I'm sure you've decided not to continue reading the following statements because they don't agree with yours. I'm curious to know, while you're busy staking out the courthouse, are you getting paid? I ask because I wonder if you've ever worked a job/career where you are expected to put your life on the line everyday! Inmates are in prison/jail for a reason, they broke the law! While I don't disagree that sometimes things happen and innocent people end up in jail by mistake, those people generally don't threaten those around them. Especially, those who are essentially their "care takers" while in jail. The media has gone crazy lately. I don't believe 95% of the stuff reported in the papers or on the news anymore. While doctors and nurses, etc are held by a code of ethics, it doesn't seem that reporters have any type of ethics, responsibility, honesty, decency, etc. They gather a few tidbits of info that may or maynot be true, twist it and turn it until it's absolutely no resemblence of what it started to be just to beat the competition in "getting the story out 1st". We already have a shortage in alot of significant professions, such as nursing. Law enforcement is not much better. I think I will see the day in my time when we have such a shortage, no where will be safe to live. No one will want to be in law enforcement, etc because everybody is "sue happy" these days. Why not? People are too lazy to work and are looking for the easy buck! What better way than to turn self defense into murder. Not only does your family get an express pass to be here legally, but they also don't have to worry about lawyer expenses because the taxpayers that live here legally and are law abiding citizens will take care of that bill, not to mention whatever comes from all of the civil suits the family's ambulance chasing lawyer choses to file! What the heck, maybe I'll take off to another country and live. Oh, yeah, other countries don't allow illegal immigrants to have more civil rights than their own citizens!! Only in America right! The Land of Opportunity!!