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‘Take Back the Land’: Woman Arrested for Videotaping Police…Has a Long History of Radical Confrontation

On Wednesday The Blaze reported about a woman who was arrested while filming police perform a seemingly routine traffic stop from her own front yard.  After Emily Good was arrested, her companion, Ryan Acuff, continued filming the incident. Now, with Good’s video going viral, her plight has garnered media attention and a flurry of support from various advocacy groups.

To refresh, below is the original video Good and Acuff recorded of the incident:

‘Most reports about Good thus far, mention her involvement with an eviction and foreclosure watchdog group in the Rochester area — and since police are often involved at the eviction stage of the foreclosure process, one could infer that Good hasn’t always had the best rapport with law enforcement.

And if an event to “defend Emily,” organized by Acuff’s group “CopWatch” is any indication, that just might be the case.

Now watch another Good-filmed video taken at the event showing police dole out parking citations to the attendees. Apparently, law enforcement agents aren’t fans of the “Cop Watch” crowd:

So who, exactly, are Emily Good and Ryan Acuff?  The plot thickens slightly when we examine the two activists’ involvement in an eerily Marxist-sounding “movement” called “Take Back the Land,” whose mission is to seize foreclosed land and property and “return it” to the public good.

That’s right – private property must not be sold “for profit,” but rather, be controlled by the “collective.”

In fact, the movement’s charter literally calls for a “right of return” for all displaced, low income “people of color.” But a return to what, exactly? In this case, any and every foreclosed home, building, or plot of land the “community” wants.

Naturally, one might wonder how you “return” property to someone to whom it never belonged in the first place.

From Take Back the Land’s charter:

Take Back the Land Rochester believes that housing is a human right, not a commodity. We believe that land and housing should be controlled by the community, not the banks.  In order to elevate housing to a human right and secure community control over land we defend people from foreclosure-related evictions and assist homeless people to move into vacant, bank-owned homes. In this process we are wresting land from the control of the banks and turning it back to our community in the form of community land trusts—where land can be taken off the speculative market. As long as housing occurs at the whim of the banks and the market homelessness and poverty will plague our community forever. In short, housing should be for people not for profit. That‘s why we’re taking back the land!

Some might take issue with the idea of a rogue community-organizing group “wresting” property from bank control in order to turn that property over to “community land trusts,” where it can never be used or sold by its rightful owners.

Strangely, organizations like Take Back the Land typically consider eminent domain a great ill, yet somehow see their own actions justifiable.

Acuff, who believes “housing is a human right,” serves as a community organizer for Take Back the Land Rochester. In his effort to “liberate” foreclosed homes from the profit-hungry banks, Acuff moves the low-income families into vacant, foreclosed homes in the area to squat there indefinitely.  In addition, Acuff and Good stage protests at soon to be repossessed homes, often barring police from entering to secure the property.

During a now locally-infamous stand-off at 9 Ravenwood Ave., Good was arrested when she rushed the front door in an attempt to thwart police from entering the residence. Still, that hasn’t kept her from posting merrily on her Facebook page:

“Bring some lunchtime love to Ravenwood Ave tomorrow for a barbecue with the woman Van Jones calls “the Rosa Parks of the foreclosure crisis.” Six weeks of home occupation=time for celebration! (vigilant celebrating).”

Likewise, Acuff isn’t shy about his disregard for the illegality of enabling squatters to take over bank-owned homes. In a recent CNNMoney interview, Acuff stated that he doesn’t quite care about what’s “legal and illegal” as much as he cares about what’s “moral or immoral.”  Clearly.

But Acuff is merely keeping in line with Take Back the Lands stated missions, which include:

Vacant foreclosed and government owned land. Now that “boom” times are over, vacant land must now be returned to the common good.

The right to return. Whether through gentrification, public housing demolition or the combination of natural disasters and government actions, those forced to leave their long-time communities must have the right to return.

But doesn’t every person, regardless of personal circumstance, already have that right? There are no laws in place stopping a particular individual from living anywhere he or she chooses. So does this “right to return” suggest that “gentrified” communities now owe people who cannot afford to live there free housing? Or does it go so far as to imply that neighborhoods successfully delivered from poverty and degradation should actually revert to it?

On the broader scale, Take Back the Land seeks to legislate its goals and objectives by winning “a series of policy shifts,” where “community control over land and housing” would become law.

Another objective of the movement, according to its charter, is to “build and strengthen Alternative Democratic Institutions.” One shudders to think just what, exactly, that means…

Below, Ryan Acuff discusses his world-view and why he moves squatters into vacant homes:

Watch this video of the Take Back the Land protest outside 9 Ravenwood Ave. in Rochester. The video appears to show Emily Good being arrested, again, as she rushes the door to a foreclosed home:

So was Good just an innocent victim of false arrest when she filmed that fateful traffic stop back in May, or did she in fact do what the arresting officer in the video suggests — and that’s say something provocative prior to filming, presumably to instigate a hostile situation from the get-go?

Are Good and Acuff simply agitators whose mission is to make law enforcement look bad at all cost? What say you?

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  • Mr. Oshawott
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:36pm

    Brasil2520, Republicorp, and WDawg have hit the bullseye here – this is yet another instance of the police abusing their citizen-granted power. Yes, while it’s true that Emily Good is an activist and has had a history of sparring with the police, that in NO WAY justifies the police’s arresting of her for simply videotaping the police on her own front lawn.

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  • SgtB
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:32pm

    I reaffirm my previous postings on this issue. I don’t care what her past was or how much of a commie librtard she is. We ALL have a right to free speech and we all have a right to oversee anything happening on our legally owned property or public property. She was not committing a crime at the time she was arrested. It was an ignorant thing to arrest her. At best, it will only strenthen her beliefs that the rest of us are capitalist pigs trying to keep the brother down. That is not the kind of thing that wins over hearts and minds to the Libertarian perspective.

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    • Mr. Oshawott
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:20pm

      @SGTB

      Absolutely well said. How can I expect anyone to defend my God-given rights from those badge-wearing thugs if I won’t allow another person with differing viewpoints to exercise them?

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    • Texas Grasshopper
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 6:12am

      yeah me too , this changes nothing

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  • V-MAN MACE
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:30pm

    RESIST THE POLICE STATE!!

    These Nazis want to put a camera UP YOUR YOU KNOW WHAT!!!

    Filming them IS NOT ILLEGAL!

    The CAMERA is the WEAPON OF CHOICE against the Nazi Police State!!!

    POINT THAT CAMERA RIGHT AT THEIR FACE AND SHOOT THAT FOOTAGE, SOLDIER!

    IT’S YOUR DUTY AS AN AMERICAN TO DISPLAY THE ACTIONS OF THESE NAZI THUGS!

    THEY’RE SCARE TO DEATH OF CAMERAS BECAUSE IT SHOWS THEM AS THE WOLVES THEY ARE!

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:43pm

      RESIST!!!!!

      RESIST!!!!

      WE ARE THE SOVEREIGN!!!!

      RESIST!!!

      RESIST!!!

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBVVfed4cpA

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    • miri55
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 3:01am

      Let them all go to Obama…White House is big …let him provide then housing…He promise that,no?

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    • one years food ration like glenn says
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 7:48am

      Let me guess V-man, you didn’t get much attention as a child and this is your way of receiving it now, right ? I guess it’s better than becoming a serial killer. All cops aren’t bad, ya know, but you would like everyone to believe that.. Good thing I’m a conservative and can make my own mind up rationally, not like the commie libs..

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    • Mr. Oshawott
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 8:14am

      @One Years Food Ration Like Glenn Says

      Nowhere within V-Man Mace’s statement did he say that all police officers are bad people. He‘s only encouraging people to film police officers while they’re on duty and out in public.

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:08am

      one years food ration like glenn says

      I’m antisocial. I don’t want your attention.

      You just keep worrying about the big bad BoogeyBurka and I’ll be hawking these Nazi Thugs as they prepare to descend on the populace.

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  • Brasil2520
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:26pm

    To REPUBLICORP

    I really pissed off people today, WOW, if they want a police state, each day we are moving that way, they will get it.

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  • Cuthalu
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:25pm

    Ah, propaganda to shift everyones eyes off the corrupt cop who falsely arrested a woman on her own property. You know, mindlessly supporting even corrupt cops is not making cleaning out police departments of bad cops who should not be police any easier. Her past means nothing, even if she is a liberal. That cop was wrong.

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  • KnightWriter
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:23pm

    I take back the comments I posted when the video initially appeared when it appeared the first contact made was when the cop asked “Can I help you?”. She still shouldn’t have been arrested police are professionals and have to act as such. She baited him, and he took it.

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  • Innvertigo
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:22pm

    It’s disturbing to know that the republicans are just as stupid as the ******** they disagree with. This should disturb everyone who believes in individual rights.

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  • RepubliCorp
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:11pm

    “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”

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    • Brasil2520
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:35pm

      Comments got removed, WOW, next time I’ll just post what the police state want to hear.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:52pm

      The huff-post didn’t like debate

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    • Brasil2520
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:14pm

      The Blaze is turned into NEWSVINE they “suspend” people for making anti-PC comments, I got suspend for 30 days, that was 2 years ago and have never been back.

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    • Mr. Oshawott
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:38pm

      @Brasil2520

      It looks like there are a handful of the Blaze staff members that seem to have problems tolerating politically INcorrect commentary from certain people. But then again, I could be wrong…

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    • TheGreyPiper
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 1:27am

      No, no, folks. Stop flattering yourselves that you are JUST TOO MUCH for Teh Blaze. Well… too much for the cheap blogware to handle maybe. But quit jerking yourselves off at the thought you are just too clever for this site.

      “I’m .. too clever for The Blaze
      Too clever for The Blaze
      Blaze is gonna leave me…”

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:50pm

      This is what happens when you put the huffy-post in charge ……….
      it all about money and you don‘t want to hurt anyone’s little feeling
      They might not buy your $1500 gold or $900 canned food

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    • Robert-CA
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 1:34am

      Yeah I don’t get it why your comment was removed but it also happened to me too & I still don’t know why ’till now .

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  • Robert-CA
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:11pm

    @ BRASIL2520 .
    Take back the land ?
    Not the way she’s doing it .

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  • contrary
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:07pm

    I assumed she was a troublemaker from the beginning, but that doesn’t mean a thing here. If she was on someone else’s property, like the banks, arrest her, but standing in her own yard with a camera? No way! There were multiple cops there, she was in plain sight, the argument that they didn’t feel safe was bogus. If safety was an issue, wouldn’t it have been better to have her where they could see her? The cop should have ignored her. Equal rights, remember, not equal justice… from either side.

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 2:34am

      Just ignoring her would have been preferable. Avoid the conflict she desires. They seem to have overstepped their powers and responsibilities. She appears to have been no threat to them or to the public. Annoying a cop is not a crime…

      As to blindsiding the cops — there were 3 cops there; surely, one of them could keep an eye on her while the other two stick the suspect in the patrol car.

      Fm what we have been shown and told — all the parties were wrong to one degree or another.

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  • Steve
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:06pm

    So private property out. FDR’s Bill of Rights in? Good God people how far down the freakin rabbit hole are we gonna let these people take us before we say enough is enough.

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  • Brasil2520
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:02pm

    This is the price I pay for posting first.

    Anyway, when your city starts to look like London with camera’s all over the place, on the street and on the road, then you’ll see the police state at work, they want to watch you but get pissed off when someone watches them.

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  • Talmid of Yeshua
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:01pm

    This woman is a communist idiot. When does the revolution start again? I don’t mean the communist revolution, I mean the revolution to force our country to once again become a constitutional republic.

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  • booger71
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 9:59pm

    If you read these clowns mission statements, they believe all private property should belong to the collective.

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    • Smug
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:13pm

      Exactly Right! Are we going to get to the point that if they want my car they can just come and take it. After all I have two and they might need one. So just take it. This is just so much BS. My heart goes out to people who don’t have work or homes but stealing someones property is not the answer. I can bet you dollars to donuts these people voted for the miscreant we have sitting in the White House and will probably vote for him again…………MSSMUG

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    • Smug
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:18pm

      My statement above was a reply to BOOGER71 not sure what happened.

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    • Brasil2520
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:24pm

      Comments got removed, too much debate

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    • Mr. Oshawott
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:48pm

      @Smug

      I’m experiencing the same problem. Why are our comments disappearing?

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    • kenXIII
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 7:33am

      because hufpo took over and they don’t like people commenting against good friends of theres

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    • maxtitan
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 10:22am

      If I knew where lived I would help myself to their cars, computers, cash, house…Living by their terms. LOL

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  • NOBALONEY
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 9:58pm

    Take back the land? Sounds a lot like Van Jones rant, “give them back the wealth”.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:02pm

      so this gives the right to the cops to over step their power?

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    • Dont-hate-on-me-2
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 10:13am

      they didnt overstep, If you watch the video he clearly says he feels the situation is dangerous, why are all of us basing our comments on what the end game was when we have no clue how it got there. What was theis women saying prior to video taping that made the officers feel unsafe. Second if a police officer tells you the conditons are not safe to go inside do it. Personally I belive this women did things that made the officers feel unsafe and then began recording like an innconnet little angel. She desevers what she got. So i will say it again. WE DONT KNOW WHAT THIS WOMEN WAS SAYING BEFORE SHE STARTED VIDEO TAPING. you people that are defending her look real stupid to me and alot of other people on this thread. She is trash

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    • 65Mustang
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 10:50am

      She is a worker for Van Jones. It was staged so she comes off as an innocent person being abused by the mean police. Take her a$$ to jail.

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    • Mr. Oshawott
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 5:28pm

      @65Mustang

      Nowhere in the videotape did it show that the unjustifiable arrest of Emily Good was “staged.” Where in the Constitution does it say that the police is allowed to arrest anyone simply based on his politics and past?

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  • booger71
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 9:56pm

    Brasil2520
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 9:46pm

    She was on her yard ! Whats the big deal, whats the crime ?

    It is called interfering with the police, if she gets anywhere near my property, well she wished she had not.

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    • Mr. Oshawott
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:49pm

      @Booger71

      How is simply videotaping police officers while standing on your own front lawn “interfering with the police?”

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    • Wes Hardin
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:21am

      As you noticed they charged her with several other “crimes”. That’s the beauty of it. Now she has a long rap sheet that portrays her as a nefarious criminal. It’ll cost her a fortune to fight the charges. Based upon the comments by the police state lovers she’ll get convicted of at least one of the bogus charges if any of their ilk is on her jury.

      Even if she beats the bogus charges the next time the goons target her she might get shot. Then the news reports will play up her arrest record and depict her as a mad-dog that the cops had to shoot because “they feared for their lives”.

      The plan works every time.

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    • faithkills
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 3:52am

      #booger

      “It is called interfering with the police,”

      Are you frakkin serious? Interfering with the police? Where do your natural rights fit in to this equation?

      Homework assignment

      Why was is ok to reject legal slavery that was upheld by the Supreme Court?

      Why was it ok to secede from England, a CLEARLY unlawful act?

      A good progressive has no logical answer to these questions because a good progresive believes in power for it’s own sake.

      Now as SURELY a non progressive you will have a logical answer.

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  • Laus Deo
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 9:51pm

    Shine the light on these douche bags. To hell with these Marxist clown babies.

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    • mils
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 12:40am

      I realize she has done things in her past, but what does it have to do with the pictures she was taking when the cops were doing something wrong? I don’t understand

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 1:11am

      just because she films police all the time while being communist, doesn’t mean that she is in the wrong 100% of the time… she STILL can catch wrong doings on camera… we can‘t just ignore police that make up laws and powers just because they don’t like someone… that someone COULD be you… it was a communist this time… but… next time, it could be you… where does it stop? it doesn’t… ffs ppl… come on, we don’t need politicians or “patrol squads”, what happened to the land of the FREE and the home of the BRAVE? if we have a problem and we can’t solve ourselves, we then call the police… they are out there looking for (and making up) trouble, making us lazy, we don’t even look out for eachother anymore… i’m dead serious… they are not our parents. stop letting them rule you like they are. “it was an order” that is why he arrested her, she didn’t follow his orders.. LOL really?! if he orders you off a bridge?… what then?.. ffs… really?! “not following orders” is not against the law… if so, everyone would be in jail right now. if it is against the law, and they can order you to do whatever, and as long as they said, “I don’t feel safe”, then arrest you when you don’t “do as they say”. then we are all slaves. end of story.

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    • one years food ration like glenn says
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 7:38am

      @MILS.. You posted (so?…I don’t understand….what does her past have to do with what she filmed?????biased much?? unfair to call her past into this when what she was doing had nothing to do with it….) It shows an agenda my friend.. What, you don’t want investigative work now ?

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    • Mr. Oshawott
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 8:47am

      @One Years Food Ration Like Glenn Says

      In case you’ve forgotten to watch the video that was posted 48 hours earlier, Emily Good was UNJUSTIFIABLY arrested for simply filming police officers while standing within her front yard of her own home. Yes, she’s a homeowner activist. Yes, her history with the police is somewhat shaky. But does that authorize the police officer to arrest her for simply exercising her Constitutional rights? Absolutely NO!

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    • Jenny Lind
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:16am

      What was the cop doing wrong-giving a routine traffic ticket is wrong now? She wanted to take that routine stop and make into something else. She must have done a happy dance when a ticket was given by where she lived. She wanted to use the oportunity to make cops look bad again. I have no doubt she ran her mouth until the cop told her to back off. I am glad he was able to go home to his family that night, other stops have not worked out so well.

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    • ConstitutionFreedomLover
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 11:38am

      Hey mr. oshawott…were you there to see what she said before filming what she said before hand? The police had every right to arrest her for not complying to their request of backing up. What would have happened if the guy they arrested shot and killed her? Her parents no doubt would sue the cops for not protecting their daughter. She needed to listen and step back…so that the police could do their job. If you so presumably hate the cops for doing their job…then go live in a country that lets you get away with things like that. Oh wait…their isn’t any. Police enforce the everywhere. We need laws. If the laws are wrong there are means to change the laws…instead of Anarchy, Marxism, Communism, and Socialism. Just because a person can do what they want…does not give a person the right to do it.

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    • WeDontNeedNoStinkingBadges
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 5:36pm

      “LAPD Police-thugs Bravely Subdue Dangerous TV News Camera”
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkvNrtk6GJ0

      Of course, that was while they were beating up everyone else …

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  • Psychosis
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 9:47pm

    of course he didnt read the story you would need an education to read and an education is clearly what this nut from brazil is missing

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  • dealer@678
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 9:46pm

    WE can drive these zombies back to the sewer in 2012. JUST DO IT

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  • Brasil2520
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 9:46pm

    She was on her yard ! Whats the big deal, whats the crime ?

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    • miri55
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 2:49am

      obstruction of justice…if a Policemen asked her to move inside,she needed to follow.and not to be a smart ass…

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    • derekcranex
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 6:15am

      Yo MIR155: She was on her own property, clearly not threatening to the police. The cops overreacted and obviously had a chip on their shoulder to get this woman who had a history with them. She has a good lawsuit against the town and the officers.

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    • Wes Hardin
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 8:57am

      She may have a good lawsuit in our eyes but if the jury is packed with police state lovers like some of the people commenting here she‘ll be lucky if she isn’t burned at the stake.

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    • RazorsEdge
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 6:27am

      Go back to Russia. This is America…we have a right to be a smartass.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 8:25am

      yes we do………. and to bad if the cops don’t like it!!!!!!
      The boot on my neck today will be the same boot on your neck tomorrow
      just way too dumb to see that?

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    • EPROM
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 11:09am

      If a cop told you to pull your pants down and dance around for his amusement, …do you have to do this just because he’s a cop and he told you to?

      The law applies to cops just like non-cops.

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  • The_Almighty_Creestof
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 9:46pm

    Well, the feebs that think that “war hero” is a freedom fighter for ruining tours of national monuments by staging flash dances just to get on YouTube with his idiocy should love this woman.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 9:43pm

    Speak on this then loud and clear to anyone who will listen to you. This is yet again another move by the socialist progressives to make things happen and force change through radical and violent means along with pressure, pressure, pressure. (Or nudge, shove, shoot – depending on how you see it.)

    They are moving more rapidly now, their hand is slowly being forced as more people awaken and see what is going on; yet enough are still unaware or deliberatly ignorant by their own choice, we need to draw the line in the sand, stand togeather, and hold on while the storm is here.

    America is the greatest nation on the earth in my oppinion; we have nearly lost her, yet we are still able to hold onto her and restore her once again…all dreams and hopes begin with an idea of one person who shares it with others, and it grows, so it is with this land…we are dreamers and doer’s who make things happen.

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  • Wdawg
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 9:40pm

    O man! the Blaze is doing a hit job on Emily Good!

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    • Wdawg
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 9:47pm

      she may be an activist, but being an activist is not illegal. neither is filming the police from your own property!!!

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    • CrackersSmurf
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 9:48pm

      lol…proof?>

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    • Steve
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:07pm

      Really? how’s that?

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:41pm

      V for Victory Against the Nazi Police State!

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBVVfed4cpA

      RESIST!

      POINT THAT CAMERA AT THEIR FACE AND SHOOT, SOLDIER!

      IT’S YOUR DUTY!

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    • Mr. Oshawott
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:56pm

      @V-Man Mace

      Excellent video! :-)

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    • Volfie
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:05pm

      I agree that one has nothing to do with the other. Emily Good may have “in fact do what the arresting officer in the video suggests — and that’s say something provocative prior to filming, presumably to instigate a hostile situation from the get-go.” So what? She possibly said something to an officer? I support law enforcement in general, but officers should be able to withstand words. If an officer is so delicate as to desire to arrest someone for words (not admission of illegal activity or threats), that person should NOT be in law enforcement.

      What was on the video shows someone on their own property (or even on public property) filming people (cops) on public property. How is that an arrestable offense? Cops have violated many citizens’ rights by arresting them for the completely legal act of filming the cops on public property. This is another example of it.

      If you want to do a piece on how Emily Good is otherwise engaged in anti-constitutional or statist activities, then do that piece, but do not link it to the separate issue of a citizen being falsely arrested for conducting clearly legal activities.

      What if someone tells a cop “I’m going to film you and prove you are violating that persons rights?” The cop should answer: “Great! I will be able to use your tape to defend against any such false allegations because your film will only catch me doing my job properly and professionally. More power to you!”

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    • mils
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:09pm

      so?…I don’t understand….what does her past have to do with what she filmed?????
      biased much?? unfair to call her past into this when what she was doing had nothing to do with it….

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    • BlazingPatriot
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:24pm

      Hmmmm! …Let’s see.

      The last time I recall citing the Pledge Of Allegiance I’m pretty sure it ended with
      “With liberty and justice for all”. This includes all U.S. citizens including Emily Good!

      What she was doing (video recording) is perfectly within her rights and her freedom cannot be contingent upon what her political and social beliefs are or for that matter, what someone else thinks.

      Her activist beliefs and idealogy may be wrong but her arrest was even more!

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    • jds7171
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:59pm

      Its funny how these progressives fight for big government, but then they complain how big government gives them tickets. You get what you ask for.

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    • fastfacts
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 12:45am

      VICTIM CARD… ALWAYS A ‘SAFE’ PLOY

      Isn’t it interesting that they always act the victim. Its like robbing a bank and then saying I did it because I am poor… I wouldn‘t have done it if I wasn’t POOOOOORRRRR.

      It’s like the Democrats blaming Bush for everything bad that is going on today, of course it couldn’t be their fault even though they own the economy. ( http://tiny.cc/2gey5 ) Here’s Nancy Pelosi: We would all be rich if it wasn’t for Bush… we would all find our left socks if it wasn’t for BUUUUUUSSSSSHHHHHH!

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 12:53am

      disobeying the whims of the police is illegal?

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    • Biff Marupis
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 1:11am

      She’s a piece of dung that stages her own confrontations.

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    • silentwatcher
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 1:30am

      What a bunch of misinformed goons. Grassroots anarchy at its best.

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    • Carolyn
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 4:19am

      since when is asking the questions and reporting the facts a “hit job” – since journalism died?

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    • thunder4570
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 6:27am

      I think the point of questioning her past is that with such a radical activist, there is probably a lot that happened prior to filming and sheds light on radical agenda.

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    • kenXIII
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 7:59am

      I wonder if it was cut because I said I hope to see her on the battlefields in our next civil war. OR because I said I hope one of her homeless buds take a knife to her at night in one of those dark empty bank owned homes because they are a poor troubled “victim of capitalism” and don’t understand what they are doing boohoo

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    • kNOwKINGsmen
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 8:01am

      You are 1000% correct!

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    • John 3:16
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 8:38am

      Oh and by the way, Not all police belong to a union. I knew many who never had a union and many did not belong to one even if they had a union. But let’s again paint with a broad brush like many here try to do.

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    • Cgeezy
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:53am

      If this site politicizes this woman and calls what she does radical then the blaze is no better than that cop.

      She did nothing illegal. Case closed.

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    • Dont-hate-on-me-2
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 10:00am

      Wdawg
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 9:47pm
      she may be an activist, but being an activist is not illegal. neither is filming the police from your own property!!!

      You are an idiot, This women is a waste of space and her husband, were you there the night she was video taping to see her egging on the police and shouting slurs at them. Then she started to video tape. It is just to bad they wont send here back to liberal land where she belongs. Get out of our town you commy

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 10:33am

      Cops HATE the light of day (cameras).

      They go poof in the daylight like vampires.

      The morning sun has vanquished the horrible night.

      Vanquish the Zombie Nazis with the Light of Day.

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    • Mr. Oshawott
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 11:37am

      @Dont-Hate-on-Me-2

      You‘re allowing Emily Good’s politics to distort your judgement – therefore, WDawg is no idiot. The police had absolutely NO authorization to arrest Emily for simply videotaping police officers while standing ON HER FRONT LAWN. Any actions that she performed before she started recording is 100% IRRELEVANT. In addition to that, I find your slamming WDawg with the “Communist” label to be utterly reprehensible.

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    • hechafteth
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 12:17pm

      Funny how you morons misinterpret “active crime scene” with “civil rights”. She got her video and was asked numerous times to just go back in the house. She refused civil discourse based on “my yard” (not her property, if I was her landlord I would boot her ass out for trying to incite a fight with law enforcement) and was arrested accordingly. You’re the same clowns that will shriek like red-assed baboons when IED and VBIEDs start going off in this country and the order is given to subdue anyone holding a cell-phone. I just pray that all you liberal looky-lou’s are killed in the secondary blasts…

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    • FuturePresident
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 1:24pm

      These videos seriously make me hate police. I have a feeling this kind of stuff is going on all over America right now. Take my hometown for example. In Manchester, VT the police will pull you over for anything they possibly can, not to give tickets, but to shake people down and intimidate them. The police will see people they know go by and pull 180s all day to follow them. My brother is a subject of this scrutiny because he has a previous marijuana arrest, so every time he passes a cop they will follow him for exactly 2 miles then pull another 180 and go to follow someone else. The police in this country have lost their backbone. They don’t play their primary function anymore…to protect and serve (the people). Now they are just enforcing laws and looking to make more money off tickets. The police chief in my town makes over 100k per year and he just started. Wanna know what i make? $8.00 an hour. Not to mention the people pay the cops salary’s so I am wasting my money on having cops troll and harass me and my community.

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    • kenXIII
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 1:52pm

      Sounds like two pig fighting for the pen. The tax funded pig won this fight want big gov? Then don’t cry as they make an example of you.

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    • aliengenius
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 4:00pm

      No one should be discouraged from watching/filming police actions, even if its by so large a mental defective as Ms. Good. Besides, arresting her just gives her more power and street cred. I just find it amazing the people who think like this manage to feed and clothe themselves and haven’t in the course of their lives done something to accidentally kill themselves or someone else. There is a clear and direct line from this kind of thinking to tyranny and oppression. It is as obvious as blue sky. Another story of militant ignorance run amok.

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 4:07pm

      hechafteth

      If IEDs and VBIEDs start going off in this country and the order is given to subdue anyone holding a cell-phone, it will be all at the hands of false-flag terrorists at the CIA and other government agencies, and in their interest only, because they’re afraid of the wrath of the people due to their guilt and involvement with numerous crimes.

      RESIST THE NAZI POLICE STATE!

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    • WeDontNeedNoStinkingBadges
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 5:31pm

      TheBlaze is sounding like some propaganda arm of … what?

      “Now watch another Good-filmed video taken at the event showing police dole out parking citations to the attendees. Apparently, law enforcement agents aren’t fans of the “Cop Watch” crowd”

      Sounds like Police Thugs … but The Founders of America DID warn us against “a standing army” …

      “With camera in hand, she reportedly stood in her front yard and filmed the events. But after recording for a little while, eventually an officer started addressing her, telling her that he didn’t feel “safe” with her recording him and telling her to go into her house. She refused, saying she had the right to record from her front lawn. He disagreed.”

      Sounds like Police Thugs … but The Founders of America DID warn us against “a standing army” …

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    • WeDontNeedNoStinkingBadges
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 5:50pm

      TheBlaze is sounding like some propaganda arm of … what?

      “Now watch another Good-filmed video taken at the event showing police dole out parking citations to the attendees. Apparently, law enforcement agents aren’t fans of the “Cop Watch” crowd”

      Sounds like Police Thugs … but The Founders of America DID warn us against “a standing army” …

      “With camera in hand, she reportedly stood in her front yard and filmed the events. But after recording for a little while, eventually an officer started addressing her, telling her that he didn’t feel “safe” with her recording him and telling her to go into her house. She refused, saying she had the right to record from her front lawn. He disagreed.”

      Sounds like Police Thugs … but The Founders of America DID warn us against “a standing army” …

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    • joodgy-woodgy puddin -n- pie
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 7:00pm

      @WeDontNeedNoStinkingBadges
      You left out the videos of the woman storming a house not legally hers trying to take it from the legal owner and redistribute it to someone who did nothing to deserve it.

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    • justafollower
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:32pm

      I don‘t care if she’s the next Charles Manson. She wasn’t doing anything illegal and the police were TOTALLY out of line arresting her. Traffic stops have a standard procedure that they have to follow. We can just assume that they were following procedure so who cares if she filmed it or not. Her past “wrongs” or “activism” has nothing to do with the night of the filming incident.

      She wasn’t doing anything illegal, if that was my wife, friend, or neighbor they arrested, I’d flip. And I‘m pretty disgusted by the police in this instance and I don’t even know the woman.

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    • Uranium Wedge
      Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:19am

      I hate it when cops need their power rush fix. Every body loses.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on June 27, 2011 at 8:32am

      The police shouldn’t be required to every help anyone who is so anti-police. Their names should be compiled and when a call comes involving them the 911 dispatch should hang up.

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  • dkoby
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 9:38pm

    Did you actually read the story?

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  • dkoby
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 9:37pm

    Did you read any of the article or are you just glad to be first?

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    • Liberacrats
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:48pm

      If your talkin to me i read it, i saw the other post the blaze put up the other night too. what you beeff for homey

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    • Liberacrats
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:51pm

      …….? i get confused…

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