Citizen Journalist’s Video Clears Cop After MSM Video Made Him Look Guilty
September 25, 2008 by Laura | Trackback URI
Can’t we all just get along?
No, not if you’re a Code Pinker trying to boost your anti-war creds at a protest, and a mainstream media journalist just itching to speak truth to power.
Luckily, a “citizen journalist” was at the scene, camera in hand. Pardon me while I just savor the irony involved here - the dying mainstream media just got pwnd by a citizen journalist named Zombie.
Here’s a newsflash for you folks - the 60s are over.
From Zombie’s orginal report:
On Tuesday, August 27, during the Democratic National Convention in Denver, I witnessed an incident that seemed at the time to be rather minor, but which over the subsequent days turned into a major scandal — primarily due to a video posted online by the Rocky Mountain News. This carefully edited video shows Officer Stewart of the Denver Police knocking Alicia Forrest of Code Pink to the ground during a protest, and then, after an edit, Forrest getting arrested by other officers. This video has created a firestorm among left-wing blogs, and also engendered many follow-up stories in the Denver Post, the Rocky Mountain News, Westword, and other mainstream Denver media outlets.
However, I personally witnessed the entire incident, from the beginning to the end, and can say without reservation that the Rocky Mountain News video is intentionally deceptive, and crafted to make the protester (Alicia Forrest) appear to be a victim of needless police brutality. I have photographic and video proof, shown below, that Alicia Forrest “asked for it” in the sense that she disobeyed police commands to stay back and also taunted the police; and that she was not seriously injured by Officer Stewart; and that the Rocky Mountain News in particular committed an act of media malfeasance by purposely posting on their site a deceptive video that left out all the context surrounding the incident. Furthermore, many blogs jumped on the story and trumpeted it as evidence of police misbehavior, when in fact there was no misbehavior at all.
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