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Cops Falsify Reports, Detain and Charge War Veteran for Photographing Officers
Don Hamel
No matter how we may feel about the U.S. waging war in the Middle East, or how suspect we are about the motives of the people who put us there, one thing most of us will readily acknowledge is this: The vast majority of the people who serve in the armed forces do so for the noblest of reasons. They believe in the American ideals of freedom, fairness and justice. Antonio Buehler is a 34-year-old Iraqi War veteran who risked his life for those ideals. He is a West Point graduate. Today he faces 10 years behind bars for standing up for them at home. His crime? Photographing two police officers, who he felt were mistreating a young woman being arrested on New Year’s eve, for suspicion of DUI. The two officers of the Austin Police Department arrested Buehler and he’s been charged with harassment of a public servant, a felony that carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison. Why did Antonio Buehler get involved at all?
The police report alleges that Buehler “shoved” and “spit on” one of the arresting officers. Unfortunately for the Austin Police Department, there is both eyewitness and video evidence to the contrary. There is a YouTube video, that while admittedly overproduced, effectively disproves the claims made in the official report. Watch the action unfold in this video: As you can well imagine, the Austin Police Department has been less than sympathetic to Buehler’s situation. There is an internal affairs investigation being conducted on the two officers involved, but they won’t share any information with him. It would appear that the former soldier’s last hopes of avoiding trial rest with the Austin Citizen Review Panel. They can make a recommendation to the police department after he meets with them, next month. There is an also an online petition that seeks to defend Buehler and have the police officers charged. It gives you a little insight into the character of the man who risked his life overseas for his country, and risked his freedom when he spoke up at home; he was given a breathalyzer test that NYE, and he passed it because he was the designated driver. Another job that nobody wants, but someone had to take on. Because it’s the right thing to do. In truth, the longer you look at Antonio Buehler, the more you understand what it is we should all be fighting for; this is a patriot whose ideals have shaped and informed his actions, and continue to do so to this day. The country he fought for isn’t rewarding him very fairly, he’s been accused of assaulting a police officer in his home state of Texas, in nearby Arizona the police can legally detain him based on the But he doesn’t stand down and he doesn’t surrender, Buehler has recently created the Peaceful Streets Project, “an all-volunteer, grassroots undertaking uniting Austinites behind the common goal of ending the institutional violence taking place on Austin streets. Through community organizing, training, and direct action tactics, the Peaceful Streets Project seeks to support marginalized communities in understanding, exercising, and standing up for their rights.” His plan is to arm the citizens of Austin with video cameras, to be used when they see abuses of power. No matter what part of the political spectrum you may fall on, if you can’t get behind Antonio Buehler, you shouldn’t call yourself American. He seems to embody every trait that Americans holds dear, and demands that the America he’s served do the same. Delivered by The Daily Sheeple Contributed by Don Hamel of Addicting Info. Leave A Comment... |
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I expect nothing less from the cops.
Austin’s Finest ?
The cops are the biggest thugs on the block. Minority communities have known this for generations while others dismissed complaints of brutality by saying say they are “just doing their job”. Now that this is effecting middle class suburban whites it is becoming an issue. We are not surprised. Expect it to get worse because it will. welcome to the club.
@Poo Bear, ?Minority? communities! you mean the black high crime, murdering negro “communities” that shoot at cops, firemen and medics? THOSE minority communities?
Maybe he should have shot the 2 men assaulting the young women under texas stand your ground laws. People seem to forget that it’s just men hiding behind those badges. A flimsy piece of brass.
@Jefferson, And though these officers are White, the greater portion of police in the country appear to be black thanks to lowering standards and AA gubmint forced hiring programs to enable incompetent blacks to have affirmative action jobs and live off the White taxpayer forEVER!
10 years for taking a pic? Where is amnesty international?
Looks like to me the ( See something,Say something) is back firing on them!
No when obama said he wanted a community police force he met he wanted people to take risk without getting paid. Pretty tupical of most poliyicans. Milliond go to executives but a few crumbs are too much to pay the peons.
the cops were dead wrong but what gets me upset is everything thats wrong people say color of skin WRONG WRONG WRONG,,this is happening to whites just as much,every time something happens to a black person(even political people watch the news)they say your prejudice,no its about politcal control nothing about color of your skin.
first lets stop the control that the goverment is putting on us and anybody that even mentions your prejudice there prejudice is the problem and is noway the solution.
they are not a single person alive that use to be a slave from the south,and most blacks under 40 doesnt even know what true prejudice against them is even like
We live in a police state. Anyone who cannot see it has gotten worse since 10 years ago is a fool. One thing for sure the camera does not lie, that is why laws against pics.
If it is ok for cameras to be everywhere, censorship on the web, unauthorized searches etc. none should have problems with pics taken of them. I guess it will have to be done in groups.
Fascists hate sunshine.
i am navajo. we were one of the first form of slaves here in the u.s.a. – along with all the other native tribes (some of which experienced genocide firsthand and have no voice now). even before the africans and the irish… it doesn’t matter. those days are gone… get over it!!! for fucks sake get over it! oh my god what is wrong with all of you!!!! were you alive in 1790 or 1850 or 1900? no. why the fuck must you all keep the hatred alive???? does it do any good? my people suffered as much as yours and i don’t spit this hatred….. i will not lower myself to such a level. i loathe these rascist comments to my core. it’s just us vs. ‘them’ – meaning the government, police, and military. when it’s time to stock the fema camps our brainwashed military will comply. watch. i see the blind devotion in person every day. i truly believe they want this racial divide. a divided population is weak!!!! when will we learn anything…. we won’t. we won’t. we haven’t and we won’t.
p.s. every political regime is the same no matter the name – democracy, socialism, fascism….. oligarchgy. they are all the same and have the exact same corruption as the other. damn. people and their intelligence quotient. it gets lower and lwer every year….. please. start thinking for yourself. thanks for your time. i’m out… before the asinine hatred begins.
NOW,NOW settle down,what your seeing is something that goes right over the head of all these stupid cops,they all have been told to crack down on everyones freedom,and being the nazi bastards they have always been,they are perfectly happy to do it,NOW for the rest of the story- these stupid corp.code enforcers are being SET UP,and as smart as they think they are,they don’t realize there in the RIFLE SIGHTS of the MILITARY….I’ve talked to more than one ARMY guy who says there going to let the american people kill as many of them as they can,THEN the US MILITARY IS going to hunt down the ONES that got away and excute them,SO you see there is a PLAN in the works for these traitors with a BADGE,they are only digging their OWN GRAVE,but first they had to take away the respect of the people,and it worked, now there ain’t no one who would spit on them if they were dying of thrist………..alls well that ends well…………
DON’T we wish it would end well??????? theres a large star coming and it will kill billions of people,THE rich elite would love to watch a BLOOD BATH before it gets here,they all work for satan and HE loves a good fight,I only see one way out of this,the bible warns of this happening and due to the conditions of the people who don’t care about that,the warning will go un headed and no one will care till it happens,the whole story is there for anyone to read,now I hope you realize why the rich elite don’t want YOU to read the BIBLE,its not to late to be saved……………….
arizona, i’m settled down. i am only stating facts… you are a perfect example of one of those brainwashed people i am talking about…. the bible!!! i’ve never heard a word of the rich not wanting you to read the bible – our country is now unfairly founded upon the bible…. when our first founders came here for religous freedom from england!!!!! it’s true. and now… you must be christian or else….and then… michelle obama, only a few days ago likened barrack’s (however you spell his name. i don’t really care to be so polite)campaign to the bible. mitt romney is mormon (as i was unfortunately raised) and the bible really factors in to the mormon religion…. you are the PERFECT american. indeed you are. i think you may be fucking stupid. call on jesus….. call on the bible to save you, a book written by men, NOT god. it will serve you no better than what i write here in the end. so you, who probably isn’t even in arizona but has that ‘name’, please don’t ever tell me to ‘settle down’. check yourself and what you say.
@melanie, I love a fiesty girl!
Slavery never went away, just went underground. Those days are over? Human trafficing, prisons for profit, efforts to abolish the minimum wage,volunteers, interns? Slavery will take the developed countries to 3rd world status.