St. Paul Police Harass Videographer and Ignore Policy

November 25, 2014November 24, 2014 Pete Eyre 775 Views andrew henderson, cop block, copblock.org, film the police, Minnesota, policy, road pirate, St. Paul, st. paul police department

The content below was captured by Andrew Henderson, who filmed a traffic stop that involved three road pirate vehicles. As one St. Paul police employee with a gruff attitude approached Andrew and took his picture, Andrew filed a FOIA request to learn his identity and get a copy of the picture. Yet Andrew found that no police employee present had followed policy to actually document the stop. Such is the accountability of a coercive monopoly…

Date of Incident: November 01, 2014
Individuals Responsible: Not disclosed by colleagues
Outfit: St. Paul Police Department
Phone: (651) 291-1111

In the course of a public data request at the Saint Paul Police Department, I discovered something truly alarming and disturbing about officers documentation of detainment and use of dash cams.

More content involving Henderson: http://www.copblock.org/?s=andrew+henderson

Police Accountability Groups in Minnesota

Communities United Against Police Brutality – website / 612-874-STOP / 4200 Cedar Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55407
Minnesota Cop Block – Facebook / Twitter / minnesotacopblock@gmail.com

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Pete Eyre

Pete Eyre is co-founder of CopBlock.org. As an advocate of peaceful, consensual interactions, he seeks to inject a message of complete liberty and self-government into the conversation of police accountability. Eyre went to undergrad and grad school for law enforcement, then spent time in DC as an intern at the Cato Institute, a Koch Fellow at the Drug Policy Alliance, Directer of Campus Outreach at the Institute for Humane Studies, Crasher-in-Chief at Bureaucrash, and as a contractor for the Future of Freedom Foundation. In 2009 he left the belly of the beast and hit the road with Motorhome Diaries and later co-founded Liberty On Tour. He spent time in New Hampshire home, and was involved with Free Keene, the Free State Project and The Daily Decrypt.