Heidi, take the Hawk cop down!

This earlier statement from Heidi, herself, kind of goes
against all of the absurd comments about ALL cops
being evil, vicious mad-dogs.......

"He was the ONLY OFFICER behaving in this manner.
All of the rest of them were completely calm, stern, but
collected. He was out of control. The video footage
shows this. He had to be taken away and calmed
down by fellow officers."

You'll get no disagreement from me that SOME cops
are power-drunk assholes, but you completely
invalidate your argument when you make ludicrous
statements like some of the above.

It's their tactic to want to be the only ones taking pictures, for when people sue the city (they fuck up, we pay in taxes).

Ask the channel 4 camera operator who still has bruises from D2KLA. He's sueing for a bundle (again, we pay).

Hey Heidi...I just happened to come aross this long stream of comments and wanted to let you know that I, as well as all of my friends, support you in every way. You are an amazing person that many of us look up to as a role model and friend. During the 3-5 walk-out you provided us with strength and support that allowed us to feel good about ourselves and what we were doing. You have amazing goals and the drive to nake them happen. That's a tough combo to beat. We all know that the police man was way out of line and we are very sorry that you were hurt. I just wanted to remind you to keep on fighting (a reminder I know you don't even need). We love you! -Nicole
P.S. Your photos are amazing. Don't let any police get in your way...keep up the great work!

Hey Heidi,
I was there with you yesterday. I was the guy in the white shirt who was hit from behind (all the news cameras caught that as well). I tried to stick up for you but that bastard just kept going. If you're going to take any action, please email me.

thanks,
steve

If you idots would protest with some respect for the public around you this might not have occurred. Let me ask you how many of your comrads were mouthing off to the officers. Let me guess your comrads were saying intellegent comments like your a nazi, facist, war mongler. You ever think that he might have had the same ideas about the war as you, but he has a job to do? Some people have jobs were you college pukes have nothing better to do, like show your asses.

wow
I Can
see.

Heidi, you deserve it .....

Heidi, I heard you and your story on Conway & Steckler (97.1 FM M-F 8-11 P.M.) tonight, and I hope you sue the pants off of that pig bastard. Not all cops are bad, but we have all run into the power-drunk, cocky, bullying bastards that are out there. They need to be stopped, and taught a lesson. We pay their salaries, they are there to 'serve and protect', they are not there to beat the crap out of people or the media.
Don't get me wrong, I support the liberation of Iraq, but I also support the freedoms that we enjoy as Americans. Freedom of speech, and protesting in a peaceful manner are our rights. No single pig with a power agenda should be able to take that away from us. F him, and I hope he crashes and burns from this, like all the other rotten pigs that had the misfortune of being caught beating innocents on film or tape in the past.

Your voice sounded rather nice last night on the radio, but if you would only listen to everything that is happening instead of from these protesters, perhaps you'd keep to unbiased reports and photos. I understand the police have quite a few bad apples; Chief Bratton will take care of that. Believe me, He will deal with any and all embarrasing officers on the force. On the subject of "No Blood For Oil": I believe most of us have had to take History in school; I've never, ever in the history of The United States, heard of our Great Country going to another foreign soil and actually killed people for their riches. On the contrary, we've (USA) gone to other Countries and brought our technology, showing and helping them extract oil and natural gas from their land, helped refine it, and bought their oil. Yes, bought their oil. Never had we killed their people (from Government on down) for oil. All of you protesters need to get the facts straight before you jump on this bandwagon. This shows just how little you really know. I'm not including you, although you seem to be leaning in that direction. Keep your focus and good hunting in the future. I would like your response directed to my e-mail address, please. You seem to have sense of what is going on in our world. Just need to go in the right direction. OK? Ray

Its probably a strech mark anyway.

Typical progressive tactics: project to the whole the actions of the extreme. The whole Republican party is not David Duke or Pat Buchanan, and the whole police force is not this one man who attacked you. In contrast, over 1,000 militant protesters were picked up just Thursday in San Francisco alone. Perhaps not every policeman is good--but I'm far more concerned about the thousands of law-breaking, vandalizing protesters than I am about a single overbearing police officer.

Let me ask you cop hating folks a couple of questions. When you go to sleep at night, and you lock your doors, are you trying to keep the police out or the thieves? And, if someone breaks into your house, of if someone assaults or robs your loved ones, who do you call? A reporter? A photographer? I am sure Heidi would be more than happy to give you her home phone number so you can call when your child is missing.

Think about it the next time you say cops are less than human. When you say such things you lower yourself to the level you dislike.

dont forget those PEACEFULL protesters had a dozen malitov cocktails. Gee maybe someones car ran out of gas.

David Duke and Pat Buchanan both neo-leftists. AKA anti-jewish pro-race-nationalism nazis who blame everything on the 'zionist-global-oppression' regime. Fuck'em I say, But...

Indymedia's motto: Nazi Punks Welcome Here!

...are such a god damn disgrace. Can't get your story straight one way or the other 'oh we're doing it to liberate them', 'oh well they might attack us with their advanced camel technology', 'really, the people there like having our bombs dropped on them. really.'

And you're obviously just trying to justify this bullshit to yourselves now that it has begun. Yesterday was the lowest moment in our nations history and you fought tooth and nail to make that happen. But ten years from now, after the truth is finally out and discussed freely, you will only admit that you were pro-war behind closed doors or underneath sheets.

You worms are the very worst this country has to offer. I'd take further time to debunk your bullshit but you haven't provided anything worthy of a proper response. You all suck, I hope you die somewhere soon, far away.

And don't ask me why i'm a supporter of saddam, or such a big fan of tyranny, or such an avid baby-eater either. Fuck all your stupid little games, you know this is wrong. Bastards.

Do not expect me to reply to your baiting, all you jackbooted warmonger nazi assholes can all go have a circle jerk for all i care, your bullshit means nothing to me, and all your self-congradulatory backslapping is just the icing on the most rancid, vile cake america has ever baked.

Well you guys can have your damn cake and eat it to. Just wait.

Pissed Off in Ohio:

FUCK OFF NAZI

Yes, Fred,
I appreciate the fact that we live in a country where the police do protect us in times of need, but there is no excuse for the few of them who abuse their power. Yes, I do feel safer knowing they are out there, but the enforcement of the law does not give them the right to beat, abuse (verbaally or physically), or play the power games.
Ever notice that cars and houses in the neighborhood are getting broken into, but the cops are all over yer ass like you are a felon if you get pulled over for a broken tail light? There are rapes, robberies and murders every day, yet where are the cops? I'll tell you where: sitting on their motorcycles with radar guns in a road construction zone on a Sunday when no one is working on the road, pulling over and citing people en masse for doing the normal speed limit. And why? Money!
For health reasons, I cannot drink alcoholic beverages, yet when I D.J.'d at a local bar years ago I was pulled over twice a week by the Garden Grove PD for two years. Searches, sitting on the curb freezing my ass off, being asked if I worked at a gay bar, being cited for a tire that was a 1/16th of an inch too worn, followed for miles, jailed because I had no ID, yet knew all of my info on my liscence and registration, bullied by these losers with a badge.
Watch COPS every once in a while. These assholes pull someone over for a burned-out light, and somehow they turn it into a felony drug arrest. F them. Stop some real crimes, fellas. Stop beating people for expressing their rights.

Is this the best we can do?

I mean, if you read this thread... the discourse here isn't exactly that mature. Or intelligent. Or well... um... human.

Are we really as stupid and un-nuanced as all this is beginning to sound?

Wake up and grow up, america. It's embarassing. Everyone here sounds like they could be rumnning for congress in the next elections...

If a cop (especially now) steps out of line he is thrown to the wolves. The lawyers that make tons of money telling people that violate the law they can get money after getting arrested. There are bad cops and they get taken care of must faster that ever before. But it is the cops cleaning up the ranks. Taking them off the streets when they realize the problems.

The reason that your car is getting broken into, and there are no cops around, it is more likely they are on another call because there are fewer and fewer of them because of budget cutbacks. Some police departments have the same amount of cops they had 20 years ago, that is not a lie. And as for cops writing tickets for money, that is not true. By the time the state takes them money from fines there is very little sent to the cities.

Heidi,

Your photos rock! I've been thinking that for quite awhile now. Really good work. I'm sorry you got your ass whooped. : ) I'm glad to see you were still out there Saturday. See ya 'round.

Oh, Fred, Fred, Fred...

Heidi was attacked by a bored, possibly scared, probably power-hungry loser PIG who lost it in a stress-filled situation. You don't strike people unless you are threatened. You don't hit girls. You don't crack under intense circumstances. You don't break rank. You follow orders, yet I am sure the commander didn't tell ONE cop to go ballistic on one photographer. Come on, Fred, get out of the litter box. MEOW. Give me a break, man. I mean, he was being caught oppresing an AMERICAN human's right to protest, and that does not give him the right to beat a member of the media.

To the PIG: Think first, before losing it in front of a camera OR ANYWHERE. We're all watching you, we're filming you, and the abuses will and MUST STOP!!! Stop some real crimes, for God's sake! Lay off the burned-out tail light people, the people who have a cracked windshield, the folks with a missing front plate, the people with a loud muffler, the guys with the headlights 1/3" too low. Let's start getting the Rapists, the Murderers, the Thiefs, the Gangsters and the scum of the Earth who seek to take our freedoms away.
Enough of this. Let's kick some Iraqui ass, let's bring down the A-holes in the world, bring our soldiers home safely, and try to be a little kinder to the citizens of the U.S. Hello? We all have to live in the same space??? Can we all be a little more tolerant of our neighbors, and be less tolerant of these rat bastards who want to kill us?
Face it, Folks: The war has begun, and there isn't a God-damned thing we can do about it but pray for our Boys & Girls over there, and hope for the best. Protests are a waste of our time now. Silence or support is all we can give. Protests and blocking intersections only piss off the populous, and F up trafic for the ordinary Joe and Jane who have to get to or from work
-Boomhauer.

Heidi is a lousy photographer, and as far as hitting girls, get a grip on it. The police should have use a Cattle Prod to get that heffer to move her big bovin butt out of the way

If you or someone you know has been arrested for civil disobedience over the
last week or has been injured by the police at a protest in the last week
please email me. We "The Arrested" (mostly a group of us from Saturday's
arrests) had a meeting tonight at the Peace Center to discuss our next step.
We plan on combining our cases and pleading not guilty as a group and are
seeking legal representation and will be interviewing lawyers. We are also
investigating pressing charges against the police for brutality.

Our next meeting is scheduled for THURSDAY MARCH 27th at 7:30 PM at 2170 W.
Washington Blvd. (which is off the 10 at Washington and Western). All
Arrestees and Victims of police brutality are urged to attend.

It is very important that we get in contact with all arrestees and injured
ASAP.

hi my name is natali and i was there at the Mar.19 protest .in my attempt to take a picture of what was happening to you Officer mulberry hit me 5 times twice on my left hand once on my chest , once on my upper left hand and once on my left leg. I really want to get in contact with you please call me so we can team up together and get justice .Call me at 323 219-5115

He hit my chest too...right in my boobie.

Please!! All you crying girls and boys that say how you got beat, just quit!! What is your mission? To protest and speak your peace or collect money from a lawsuit?? It sure does sound like you girls are all there to collect some money out of this! I guess you all need it since you probably dont have jobs anyway, that is why your asses have the time to show up at protests.
And Heidi, you sound like like a whining cry baby! You say that the police ofcr did not give you ANY verbal warning whatsoever, yet you took a picture of him CLEARLY showing that he was yelling something! What could he have been yelling? hmmm, lets see... maybe to move your fat ass out of the way??
And for all you knuckle heads that are whining about cops pulling over people for no reason, ie..broken taillights, brake lights, etc.. Why do you think the State has made it a violation? Maybe because it may be a danger to drive your car on the road when it is in that condition! Maybe one day you will appreciate that cop who pulls over people to cite them for a broken taillight or no brake lights the day you rear end someone because you didnt know the guy in front of you was braking since his brake lights werent working.
And for those who are wondering where the police are when "real crime" happens, maybe they are babysitting protestors who dont know how to protest peacefully and are blocking streets for those people who are trying to get to WORK or home or to the hospital cause they have an emergency. Get a real job and quit blaming your deficiencies on the cops.

Are you kidding?
Please don't blow smoke up our ass.
The police are an exstention of state power
with the national guard over that
and the military ( now that posse committals no longer means shit)
over that.
Get real, the cops get there after the crime.
Good for highway enforcement and investigation.
Real SHITS
during crowd control
mostly vicious apes
boned up to bust heads.
Do us a favor
please.

Fix fonts,
thank you.

Protect yourself with a
piece of iron if want to
feel safe. Love that 2nd
amendment.

Please!! Would somebody please help me take my head out of my ass?

Even the thinnest coin has two sides.

what a knucklehead.....so far there have been about 10,000 or more protesters and maybe 20 complaints against the cops for being too agressive. One of which was a cop hitting a guy and when that came out the cop was assaulted and he was trying to get his baton back. And I have read a lot of complaints agianst the cops on this web site and not one said anything about getting hit on the head. So, where is the head busting, DORK.

what a knucklehead.....so far there have been about 10,000 or more protesters and maybe 20 complaints against the cops for being too agressive. One of which was a cop hitting a guy and when that came out the cop was assaulted and he was trying to get his baton back. And I have read a lot of complaints agianst the cops on this web site and not one said anything about getting hit on the head. So, where is the head busting, DORK.

what a knucklehead.....so far there have been about 10,000 or more protesters and maybe 20 complaints against the cops for being too agressive. One of which was a cop hitting a guy and when that came out the cop was assaulted and he was trying to get his baton back. And I have read a lot of complaints agianst the cops on this web site and not one said anything about getting hit on the head. So, where is the head busting, DORK.

what a knucklehead.....so far there have been about 10,000 or more protesters and maybe 20 complaints against the cops for being too agressive. One of which was a cop hitting a guy and when that came out the cop was assaulted and he was trying to get his baton back. And I have read a lot of complaints agianst the cops on this web site and not one said anything about getting hit on the head. So, where is the head busting, DORK.

what a knucklehead.....so far there have been about 10,000 or more protesters and maybe 20 complaints against the cops for being too agressive. One of which was a cop hitting a guy and when that came out the cop was assaulted and he was trying to get his baton back. And I have read a lot of complaints agianst the cops on this web site and not one said anything about getting hit on the head. So, where is the head busting, DORK.

Hey, John. Are you coming to the KKK meeting tomorrow night?

facts, just the facts.

The LAPD are a bunch of Nazi pigs.

Maybe you should take a damn look at yourself. I have been a war correspondent, worked both sides of the coin. You are so damn close to a police line taking pictures.....what do you expect? He did what he had to do to protect himself...you are lucky you haven't covered a war or conflict...you'd have nobody to complain to...you'd be dead.

Look, asshole alleged war correspondent, the lady was taking a picture on the streets of LA - no in some foreign country at a battle line.

The LAPD pigs are totally out of line. They had NO reason to strick her when all she was doing was preserving and obtaining evidence as to what pig cop was using excessive force.

I have lived in LA most of my life. The cops are total pigs. I am a conservative looking, white male who drives a nice conservative looking car. The cops give me trouble. And the reason? Because the can. I was hopping Bratton might bring about a welcomed changed - WRONG!!!!

These dimwitted, strong armed, citizen abusing assholes need to have someone come down on them hard. I guess Ramparts did not teach these bastards enough of a lesson.

BTW: All the cops are are the enforcers for the government who wishes to butt into and curtail the rights of citizens.

Fucking the LAPD is too good for them. Charge them, arrest them, put them in jail and let these sick bastards become the girlfriends of some of the people they fucked over in the past. Bunch of fucking dickheads - Nazi bullies = LAPD.

Wow.....and we only THOUGHT you were sick and immature!!!!

good.

I wonder if perhaps these dicks posting immature rubbish like that binladen / bush pic aren't trying to establish the basis of a smear campaign by the presstitutes later?

Smells fishy to me.

Perhaps the local imc authorities would be well advised to screen at least the most offensive of visual material. Understandably there are limits to how well that can work in a format like IMC's but further effort to the matter seems well advised.

Get out of the cops way and you won't get a beating. You and the protesters deserved it. If they were protesting legally, they wouldn't have gotten a beaten. If you weren't in the way you wouldn't have gotten one either. If you were here I would give you a quater to call someone who really gives a sh-t about your deserved a-s whoopin. Now take it like a man and volunteer in one of our armed forces. You sissy.

Did you get that swastika flag I sent ya?

I was there. It was unreal.
Anyway, I think the cop's name is Mayberry, not Mulberry

When given a dispersal order by the police your right to protest has ended. The protest was deemed disruptive to other peoples lives. When you approach an officer who has been instructed to quell an disorderly assembly you take a measure of risk. You may of wished just to photograph the whole incident, but you placed yourself in an area that was harmful to you. If you want to take a photograph of a horse race you don't stand in front of the horses. You and I sleep under the blanket of security that ofcr maybery provides, and then you have the audascity to question the means in which he provides it.

circle
circle going nowhere
circle stuck in neutral

I have a complaint!!!!! Everytime that I stick my hand inside a hot fire pit, It burns me. The fire has no right to hurt me like that. I have human rights, You know. I want everyone to know that the fire is bad and will hurt you. I am going file a law suit against it too.

Dumb ass If you don't want to get hurt, Yes you know the rest.

Life is easy if you follow the rules...

To all person that like to protest and believe that cops are pig and other colorful names. I hope you do see the video because it does tell the truth about what happen that day. If this does go to court, you will see that people were grabing his batton, and that Hidie was not as innocent as she whats you to believe. She doesn't have a leg to stand on... By the way, next time you get robbed, attacked, burglarized,your car stolen, have an arguement with someone. HANDLE IT YOURSELF because the first person you call when something happens is the police.

The photographer had every right to photograph the protesters. They were on public property. The police cannot bar the media from photographing events such as these when they are on public property. The police officer violated the photographer's First Amendment rights. He should know better than to assault a working member of the news media. If the officer
would have paid attention during his criminal law classes at the academy and at college, he would have known this. Every criminal justice major (such as myself) knows all about the First Amendment!

when the police give a lawful order to leave, next time leave.............

Heidi was never given orders to move (according to her). Mess with the Bull, you get the horns-and hopefully that Rogue Cop finds that out in court...

in a civilised country the police have no right to hit someone unless they a putting someone at risk of physical harm.

taking someones photo or calling someone a cunt, as much as it might upset you it not cause to hit someone.

if you dont like being in the public eye, they dont join the police, when on duty the police are not human beings, they are representing an organisation so they dont have the right to decide someone deserves a beating.

they dont have the training or the discipline of the military and most of their employees are on the lower scale when it comes to IQ.

its a shame that the most ignorant people in society are the ones wielding the power.

You obviously have never known a real police officer.

Most, if not all of your comments are pure bullshit. From reading them I somehow come to the conclusion that you are 16-18 years of age, with poor school grades and a minimum wage job that includes asking people if they want fries with their order.

Police officers are indeed human beings. But just like any other profession, we have our share of misfits that slip by the hiring process and give us a bad name. For the most part the men and women in law enforcement are dedicated people who care about trying to make this world a better place to live. A great many of us have prior military service AND higher education degrees (in fact in most cases several degrees). Yet armchair lawyers like you seem to take great glee in spewing inane drivel about us based on nothing more than the actions of a few despicable people who should never have been allowed to wear a badge, and your self styled "expertise" from watching too many episodes of "COPS".

We are the first people called when there is a deranged lunatic running around with a gun shooting someone, or when a drug dealer is trying to sell crack to your kids. We are the first ones lambasted by you for pulling you over for speeding or when we arrest you for driving drunk. You get pissed off when you see two of us on the side of the road together talking, (and are even angrier when we don’t show up 5 seconds after you call the phone because the kids next door are making too much noise with their music) not knowing that we are probably exchanging information on a serial rapist who is working in our area, or intelligence on the latest gang activity. Sure we might also be discussing the latest ball game, (speaking about bad role models, what about those overpaid scions of depravity?) but then again we are allowed to on break aren’t we? I’m sure that NONE of you have EVER talked about anything else at work other than work. In fact I’ll be willing to bet a months salary that MOST of the comments made on this forum were done while the authors were at work!

We are criticized for using “excessive force” when trying to take a drug crazed man waving a knife into custody and end up having to shoot him because he lunges at one of us with the knife. You think that the crap you see in the movies where the detective shoots 100 yards with a 2 inch snub nose revolver and hits a guy in the wrist is reality and that we can shoot the suspect in the hand and just wound him. I want to see any of you try to shoot something the size of a human fist moving at about 40 miles per hour, with 150 foot pounds of force that only has to travel 2-4 feet before it kills you. You can’t do it, why do you think police and military are trained to shoot for the center of a person’s body mass?

We are asked to do a job that most of you are incapable of doing, or unwilling to do yourselves, but yet we are the bad guys. WE are the ones who have to find the elderly shut in that no one has seen for three days, that no one else bothers to check on until they call us, and who has fallen down in their house and died from exposure. We are the ones doing CPR on crack addicted babies born to junkie mothers, or who have to carry the corpses of the children beaten to death by abusive alcoholic fathers who got mad because the baby messed their diapers. We are the ones who see all of the worst of humanity, day in and day out, who the public expects to act like emotionless robots regardless of the shockingly insane brutality we see people doing to one another, and yet we still come back the next day in the hopes that maybe today we will make a difference and actually be appreciated for everything we do.

I’m not saying any of this to justify the actions of the officer who hit the author of this story. I’m tired of people like you painting ALL of us as jack booted nazis just because a few cops step over the line. I guess NOONE ELSE in the world has ever done anything wrong right? All doctors, lawyers, judges, politicians, journalists, contractors, bankers, investors, ball players, actors, musicians, ministers, businessmen, etc. etc., ad infinitum have been paragons of professional ethics right? Only the cops EVER cross the line, the rest of you perfect people walk on water.

As far as I am concerned, if you have never walked the street in a cop’s uniform, with that badge on and done the things I have been asked to do, and seen the things I have been forced to see, all in the name of “serving and protecting” a public that treats us like trash, and for a society that is deteriorating every day you can keep your uneducated, inexperienced and irrelevant opinion to yourself.

I f your response time to the last post is any indication of your swift serve and protect ideals.....
Yes there are some good cops. But the shit heals seem to ride for free. You people need civilian supervision.

Heidi,

I am a police officer in a college town. We deal with protests and "civil disturbances" quite often.

First, I don't know what the actual events were that happened that day, so I cannot pass judgement on your credibility or the officer involved. I am sorry if you were a victim of an unjust use of force.

However, I ask that you not use the words "pig" or "nazi" because all that does is make you look less credible. Go onto the LAPD website, and go to the awards sections, and read some of the incidents they have dealt with, and at the least, understand what we do.

And for all of those you call police ignorant, nazi pigs, look at yourself in the mirror, take a good look, and realize that you are being ignorant, thinking all police are the same. Then read a book about nazis, and you'll see what they did to people, because your comparason of police and nazi is uneducated and juvenile.

That's the least of it. the indymedia fanatics have been known to kill police officers on occasion.

See: "Proud and Insolent Youth Incorporated"

You deserve to get beaten. The LAPD have to be the best police department in the world. I laugh at you.