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Wow... cop pretty much fucked up when he stated the suspect attacked him first. Clearly the cameraman was stationary until the cop took him to the ground. It's called perjury and for cops it means the death of your career.
Had the cop not said that he was completely within reason to figure the cameraman called in a fake reporting in order to tape cops and when he misspoke on whether or not he lived in the house, the cop totally had the right to question him and detain him in order to ascertain whether or not he legally could be on the property.
The problem is that he could have simply asked the guy to be really sure, because if he didn't live there, he was trespassing. Then when he recanted he could have arrested him for providing false information. But any real cop would have let him off with a warning.
What really happened is a bunch of cops showed up expecting to hunt down a suspect. He was high on adrenalin. He saw some guy with a video camera and his fight instincts turned on. Cop should be fired because he is a liability.
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