CBC TV cameraman will not face obstruction charges, but police still hold tape
Don Scott, a CBC TV cameraman, will not face obstruction charges for an incident with Winnipeg police last month.
Scott was arrested December 12 where he was filming a police standoff. His camera and tape were seized. A CBC executive says police are still holding the videotape.
Police said Scott was within a safety perimeter and refused to move away when an office asked him to. The CBC said Scott agreed to move, but was arrested because he refused to stop videotaping.
Cameraman Don Scott had not been formally charged but was scheduled to appear in court for “obstructing a peace officer.”
The Crown prosecutor said “We just felt it didn’t meet the requirements of the section for obstruction.”
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How come CBC is so anti police? You’re both government agencies are you not? I am a loyal listener to the CBC and I enjoy the programming but there are important stories that aren’t being told.
Instead the both national and regional news focus too heavily on anti police stories that are very tabloid style.
For example, just today I’ve heard six times already about someone who got their knee scraped by the police in Langley, BC. How does that make the national news?
All of this sensationalist reporting is supporting organized crime’s anti police campaign.
Critiquing, or just plain reporting on what looks like bad behaviour on the part of specific officers doesn’t constitute being "anti-police". It never has.
Besides which, you expect CBC to behave like <b>Pravda</b>?
For to long, the CBC has held a grudge against the law enforcement community. I have witnessed CBC reporters turn down stories that exonorate RCMP officers and run with others that make the RCMP look like a pack of mad dogs.
I am particularily disgusted that the CBC ran only part of an eyewitness taping of an arrest in Vancouver where a man refused to surrender to police. The video shows E.R.T. members hitting stun points on the suspect. Once the man was handcuffed, the video shows a firearm being taken out of the suspect’s waistband. However, the CBC did not show the entire clip and it stopped just after the arrest. This is irresponsible journalism and very much anti-police.
The CBC also aired the arrest and tasering of the Polish man in Vancouver repeatedly. It
A lot of people say the media covers bad news. I disagree. The news media covers the unexpected and unfortunately, we the unexpected tends to be negative.
In our society we expect cops to be honest hardworking people who are there to protect us. We as a society have a high opinion of what the police do. That’s why we are shocked (and it becomes a story) when someone dies in the airport after being tasered. It’s unexpected, it’s news. That’s why you tend to see more "bad" police stories. We expect them to be good, so when they aren’t it’s unexpected and becomes a story.
I think people give the news media too much credit for leading public opinion. We are all people and we respond to the strongest stories. What touches people, what is that unexpected element.
it is n ot the news reported but how it is reported that is theproblem case in point the guy tazerd had a crimanal record in poland who reported that he was imagrating to canada yet he would not have had a problem if he understood one of the offical languages why was that not covered both of these would have painted adifferent picture of the police if they where reported thus. but the slant of the stories was anti police