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Video of undercover cops at the breakaway march 2/16/03
This video documents undercover cops in action during the breakaway anti-war action in San Francisco on February 16th, 2003.
This video documents undercover cops in action during the breakaway anti-war action in San Francisco on February 16th, 2003. There are three undercover cops shown here. The first two were easily identifiable while I was shooting video at the event. I was able to find a third one after reviewing the footage.
Cop #1: You can see a black cop with a moustache wearing a headband which covered his ears (seemed like an attempt to cover up a likely earpiece). He's wearing a black leather jacket and green camouflage pants. He was a no-brainer to spot (perhaps since I was actively looking out for them) as he followed the crowd on the sidewalk at a distance with a frozen cop expression on his face the whole time. At one point he is seen holding a long wooden stick. He is clearly shown behind police lines during later arrests and pointing out things to uniformed cops. This is the same undercover that people pointed out from the January action.
Cop #2: This one was wearing a beanie, black hooded fleece sweatshirt and light blue jeans. He was videotaping the crowd while always keeping a safe distance. He was also very easy to point out and became noticeably uncomfortable as people started taunting hiim.
Cop #3: I noticed this one while reviewing the footage of the arrests at Market and 8th. I saw what appeared to be a white guy dressed in a navy blue hooded sweatshirt and light blue jeans helping uniformed cops with arrests. It seemed like he could have been wearing a baseball cap underneath the hoodie. I didn't find a shot of his face until I reviewed a footage of cops on horses on a rampage that happened before those arrests. He seems to be at least in his forties with a white moustache.
It is very likely there were other undercovers that I wasn't able to identify but perhaps others were able to. For those of you that documented the event using the visual medium, look carefully through your video footage or photos for these or any other undercover cops and publish them here.
Cop #1: You can see a black cop with a moustache wearing a headband which covered his ears (seemed like an attempt to cover up a likely earpiece). He's wearing a black leather jacket and green camouflage pants. He was a no-brainer to spot (perhaps since I was actively looking out for them) as he followed the crowd on the sidewalk at a distance with a frozen cop expression on his face the whole time. At one point he is seen holding a long wooden stick. He is clearly shown behind police lines during later arrests and pointing out things to uniformed cops. This is the same undercover that people pointed out from the January action.
Cop #2: This one was wearing a beanie, black hooded fleece sweatshirt and light blue jeans. He was videotaping the crowd while always keeping a safe distance. He was also very easy to point out and became noticeably uncomfortable as people started taunting hiim.
Cop #3: I noticed this one while reviewing the footage of the arrests at Market and 8th. I saw what appeared to be a white guy dressed in a navy blue hooded sweatshirt and light blue jeans helping uniformed cops with arrests. It seemed like he could have been wearing a baseball cap underneath the hoodie. I didn't find a shot of his face until I reviewed a footage of cops on horses on a rampage that happened before those arrests. He seems to be at least in his forties with a white moustache.
It is very likely there were other undercovers that I wasn't able to identify but perhaps others were able to. For those of you that documented the event using the visual medium, look carefully through your video footage or photos for these or any other undercover cops and publish them here.
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absolutely beautiful work-- thank you for sharing it. More evidence that WE ARE WATCHING!!
hey,
i tried to watch this but it (like some but not all quicktime) didn't work in my explorer crapola. fk micro$uk.
i'm getting mozilla (newly released open source and better anyways)
http://www.mozilla.org/
(for instance, why could i watch the "black bloc video" of the woman in red being grabbed out and struck, but all that appears on this one is a bar, which dutifully scrolls along like it's playing but there's no picture or sound?)
i tried to watch this but it (like some but not all quicktime) didn't work in my explorer crapola. fk micro$uk.
i'm getting mozilla (newly released open source and better anyways)
http://www.mozilla.org/
(for instance, why could i watch the "black bloc video" of the woman in red being grabbed out and struck, but all that appears on this one is a bar, which dutifully scrolls along like it's playing but there's no picture or sound?)
AWESOME WORK!!!
i'm so glad i updated my software
mozilla baybee
but i also needed the new "free" quicktime player and some related download
for another close encounter with the undercover unkind, check out this little clip:
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/05/126202.php
p.s. You rock the house.
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/05/126202.php
p.s. You rock the house.
Here are some facts:
1. At least one of these cops has cheated on his wife. Maybe he is doing it now. We need pictures. We need to post them here.
2. At least one of these cops is probably involved in something corrupt. We need pictures. We need to post them here.
3. At LEAST one of these cops has skeletons in their closet that they don't want anyone to know about. We want everyone to know about them.
All undercover cops creep around 850 Bryant. All it would take is one enterprising person to throw down a couple hundred bucks to hire a private investigator. Be careful, Jim Bell proves that "stalking" cops is no good. We don't want to stalk anyone. What we want is to do investigative work on corruption at SFPD.
And there's plenty of it. The chief pig right now, Prentice Sanders, is reknowned for assisting in frame-ups. The assistant chief pig, Alex Fagan... well, heheh... just check the Chronicle lately for the dirt on him.
Being an undercover cop is lower than snake shit in a wagon rut. Being deep undercover means making tight friends with people only to stab them in the back for some sicko twisted reason. Undercover cops are fucked in the head.
1. At least one of these cops has cheated on his wife. Maybe he is doing it now. We need pictures. We need to post them here.
2. At least one of these cops is probably involved in something corrupt. We need pictures. We need to post them here.
3. At LEAST one of these cops has skeletons in their closet that they don't want anyone to know about. We want everyone to know about them.
All undercover cops creep around 850 Bryant. All it would take is one enterprising person to throw down a couple hundred bucks to hire a private investigator. Be careful, Jim Bell proves that "stalking" cops is no good. We don't want to stalk anyone. What we want is to do investigative work on corruption at SFPD.
And there's plenty of it. The chief pig right now, Prentice Sanders, is reknowned for assisting in frame-ups. The assistant chief pig, Alex Fagan... well, heheh... just check the Chronicle lately for the dirt on him.
Being an undercover cop is lower than snake shit in a wagon rut. Being deep undercover means making tight friends with people only to stab them in the back for some sicko twisted reason. Undercover cops are fucked in the head.
"True friends stab you in the front."
- Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wilde (1854-1900)
- Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wilde (1854-1900)
Channel 2 news keeps running the same footage from this weekend. In one shot they keep using, they focus right on the black undercover cop with a moustache. They literally zoom in on him. Just to let you know -- it'll be good for his face to be imprinted in all of our minds.
wonder whats it like to be the embarrassment of your whole family?
and to the black cops
the house niggas
they gave you a mthrfuckn gun so i guess you figure you made out
so you go
but you didnt know
fuck tha police
and to the black cops
the house niggas
they gave you a mthrfuckn gun so i guess you figure you made out
so you go
but you didnt know
fuck tha police
as the uniformed cops pull a protester in from the curb...
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drummer-pulled-from-curb.jpg, 2, 500x333
By the way, if you have problems playing the video on your computer, you probably just need to download the latest version of the free QuickTime player here:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download
as this video uses the latest mp4 compression scheme.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download
as this video uses the latest mp4 compression scheme.
Me and friends noticed the first guy. I tried to photograph him near Powell St. but couldn't get a good shot. He was on his cell phone every 5 minutes.
Another guy was video taping the whole thing. He was dressed plain, but had Nike shoes. The guy in the first photo was wearing Nike shoes too.
Nike shoes are a dead giveaway if you ask me.
Another guy was video taping the whole thing. He was dressed plain, but had Nike shoes. The guy in the first photo was wearing Nike shoes too.
Nike shoes are a dead giveaway if you ask me.
Hey,
One of the police identified here as an undercover cop was over to talk to a motorcycle cop who had a bullhorn on his motorcycle. The audio is not very clear but you can watch that on this video:
http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/02/1575303.php
at the 5 min. 43 second mark, from the log:
" 5:43 Why is there a bullhorn strapped to a motor officer's off-road motorcycle?"
That's part 2 of a 2-part video.
I'm sure he's in lots of different peoples' video. People need to be more aware. Doesn't look like that videographer was aware.
It was right around when the drummer boy was arrested, same video as the photo above was taken from.
One of the police identified here as an undercover cop was over to talk to a motorcycle cop who had a bullhorn on his motorcycle. The audio is not very clear but you can watch that on this video:
http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/02/1575303.php
at the 5 min. 43 second mark, from the log:
" 5:43 Why is there a bullhorn strapped to a motor officer's off-road motorcycle?"
That's part 2 of a 2-part video.
I'm sure he's in lots of different peoples' video. People need to be more aware. Doesn't look like that videographer was aware.
It was right around when the drummer boy was arrested, same video as the photo above was taken from.
For undercovercop6, is that the same guy as this cop?
http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/02/1574606_comment.php
I'm looking at the second cop from the left (Next to the Asian cop) with the blond mustache, his facemask is lifted up onto his helmet.
Hope not, I've had good experiences with this guy in the past. He even let my 3 year old nephew pet his horsy during the January ANSWER march, but the situation was less tense in January.
http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/02/1574606_comment.php
I'm looking at the second cop from the left (Next to the Asian cop) with the blond mustache, his facemask is lifted up onto his helmet.
Hope not, I've had good experiences with this guy in the past. He even let my 3 year old nephew pet his horsy during the January ANSWER march, but the situation was less tense in January.
For more information:
http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/02/157460...
i seen undercover pig number one when i was being brought into the county jail and was being detained. he threatened me. he was wearing a dea badge strap. fuck homeland security. they can come get me. im right here. they wanted me to turn in my friends that they claimed to have on a videotape. fuck that. he said that i faced 10 yrs but five if i corroborated some bullshit story so they can make it look like the cops have the right to beat people in the street for marching against bush shooting babies in the face in the desert. fuck all you pig ass fuckers. bullshit law and order tv show scare tactics. scrape that nigga. he can eat both of my nuts. pigs dont want none. all pigs are going down. if they get acquitted on those obstruction of justice charges i say we throw a little party right there. ftp.
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