Muscatine

A man accused of videotaping police officers conducting training in November 2006 was granted release on $400 bail, yesterday, in Fifth Circuit Court, pending his appeal.

Darrel Lloyd Jarmusch was charged with resisting arrest, obstructing government operations and harassment stemming from a Nov. 28, 2006, incident for which he is accused of filming several police conducting training exercises near the Lihu'e Costco.

According to a police report, Jarmusch showed up, camera in hand, at a training and accused one of the officers of stopping cars randomly.

Police yesterday said they weren't conducting any random traffic stops at the time, noting to do so they would have had to inform the public ahead of time, along with other protocols.

Police also said the reason they were able to pull a car over as part of the exercise was that the car's plates had shown multiple traffic violations after the plates identifying marks were entered into a data base.

After Jarmusch was reportedly told to stop filming several times, officers arrested him and confiscated his film, according to police reports.

Arguing the incident had occurred while Jarmusch was on probation for another offense, Tracy Jean Murakami, prosecutor, filed a motion asking a judgment be entered from a 2001 case in which Jarmusch faced several weapons-related charges.

2 Responses to "Police filming incident may face appeal"

1. 1Buck Johnson Says:
   March 26th, 2008 at 3:05 pm

   The police are being suckers, they actually think that what they are doing will help our society it will not. They are the brownshirts/stormtroopers for the elite in america and abroad. Is it any wonder that they pass laws to make it impossible to film or tape a police action or officer. Just look at this guy, he was filming them and he had every right to do that but they made up a bunch of charges like he went over there and started to fight the police. And now the prosecutor in trying to make what they did seem trivial is wanting judgement against the man on 2001 weapons charges. This way they can sully the man and say he's just a confict jury why believe him.

   We in america are going to be living with the consequences of our inaction and action for a decades to come. Now the techniques that police are using and doing are so blatantly against the constitution and the law, they don't seem to care. And if someone says anything about, they probably say so what, what jury is going to believe that scum (you, me, minorities, disenfranchised etc.) over a cop. And you know what they are right. Because many of the people in the jury are acting like what the propaganda minister during Hitler's reign said, if it's not happening in their back yard they don't care.

   Pastor Martin Niemöller wrote

   " First they came for the Jews
   and I did not speak out
   because I was not a Jew.
   Then they came for the Communists
   and I did not speak out
   because I was not a Communist.
   Then they came for the trade unionists
   and I did not speak out
   because I was not a trade unionist.
   Then they came for me
   and there was no one left
   to speak out for me."

   Many people in america are in this type of thinking, and one day when they come for them or their wifes or there property there will be no one to speak out for them also.