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• Police officer assaults city councillor who was peacefully leaving the council meeting

David Snyder, the poor beaten councilman, is obviously a key character in this ridiculous saga. It is obvious that the other two members of the council and the police forces have accumulated a fair amount of resentment against him. Just by looking at the video of the September incident, it is unclear what he might have done to upset others, but the recent incident is only the last one in a series.

This opinion post is related to the poll:

• Police officer assaults city councillor who was peacefully leaving the council meeting

Other sources of information

WNDU has some more information. WNDU is the media claiming copyright over the video and is responsible for having it removed already several times from youtube.
http://www.wndu.com/home/headlines/9793807.html
http://www.wndu.com/home/headlines/9814706.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseland,_Indiana

Other websites participating in this cyber-protest for justice

I am happy to cooperate with any activist working for justice on this incident. (We would appreciate a link back to this page.)

This opinion post is related to the poll:

• Police officer assaults city councillor who was peacefully leaving the council meeting

Several versions of the video have been posted at youtube. Each time, they have been brought down because "copyright infringements" claims made by WNDU-TV. Some estimate that several dozen videos had been removed from youtube (even though the same videos were still available at other video sharing sites).

But the law was on the side of the youtube activists, and thanks to one dedicated youtuber, one video has definitely been restated at youtube. Read on to see how...

This opinion post is related to the poll:

• Police officer assaults city councillor who was peacefully leaving the council meeting

After the September 14th arrest, David Snyder was due to appear in court on October 4th for two misdemeanor charges (resisting arrest and disorderly conduct) 1. Councilman Snyder wanted to plead non-guilty, but when he reported to the court he found out that no charges had actually been filed 2.

1. 1. WNDU report: Excessive Force and Police Arrests (Sep 16, 2007)
2. 2. WNDU report: David Snyder in court (Oct 4, 2007)

This opinion post is related to the poll:

• Police officer assaults city councillor who was peacefully leaving the council meeting

• If you have already seen the video, go straight to the poll and vote.
• If you haven't see the video yet, hurry up before it gets removed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAZATt4tM74 Too late for this one. I am going to add information in this article and look for another video. Please bookmark this page and share the links with your friends.

I am writing this poll in the context of a particular incident of police brutality, in Roseland, Indiana, on September 14th, 2007, i.e. 3 days earlier than the Meyer incident at the U. of Fl. with Senator Kerry.

Foreword

Below, I am trying to give a honest, impartial account of the Roseland incident, but the more I learn about the wider context, the less clear-cut things appear.