By Madison Ruppert: The New York Police Department apparently classifies individuals who
choose to exercise their right to videotape police engaging in their
public duties “professional agitators” as revealed by a poster inside
the NYPD’s 30th Precinct.
While this is hardly surprising coming from a police department so woefully corrupt that an officer who actually attempted to do his job by exposing rampant, systematic corruption ended up being thrown in a psychiatric ward by his superiors, it is troubling nonetheless.
One of the most laughable parts of this poster – aside from the
glaring errors which most high school graduates would likely catch – is
that the upper left hand corner appears to show the seal for the NYPD’s “Intelligence Division”.
Let us not forget, the NYPD has also created a social media unit in order to conduct surveillance on various social media outlets, has been busted spying on innocent Muslims, using highly questionable tactics in order to arrest Occupy Wall Street activists and even been shown by a former narcotics detective to be fabricating drug charges to meet quotas.
If anything can be said about the New York Police Department with any degree of certainty, it is that they probably have a significant reason to fear being recorded in carrying out their often deplorable activities.
According to Christina Gonzalez Nysid, one of the two “professional
agitators” depicted on the poster (which has a couple of egregious and
hilariously elementary grammatical and spelling errors), she discovered
it after walking in to the monthly 30th Precinct community board meeting.
The poster reads (in all capital letters):
Be aware that above suspects are known professional agitators that live at 445 West 153rd Street. Above subjects MO is that they video tape
officers performing routine stops and post on YouTube. Subjects purpose
is to portray officers in a negative way and too [sic] deter officers
from conducting there [sic] responsibilities. Above subjects also deter
officers from beings safe and tactical by causing unnecessary
distraction. Do not feed into above subjects [sic] propaganda.
See the poster displayed inside of the precinct in the below short video.
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