Is this the usual attitude of our police?

[j*oono]

This "officer" says that stupidity is not illegal, but is stupidity an asset when it comes to joining the police force?

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-29/an-excerpt-of-the-conversation-between-act-police/6431754

Couple of thugs.

[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

Any member of the public has the right to film / video police.  The fact they have chosen to try to intimidate a gentlemen who works for 

SBS ( Media)  is a particularly stupid move. Nowadays, just about everyone has a camera on them.... the increased likely hood that any 

thing the police say and do will be recorded. Police cannot ask anyone in a public space to stop filming.

[rabbitearbandicoot]

I must admit I couldn't really hear parts of the conversation, but what the Policeman on the left of the film said about a woman police officer being asaulted so that they needed a copy of the film for evidence - makes sense.

Yes, I admit some individuals can be overbearing at times and let the power go to their heads BUT I think we would be in a funny old place without the Police. I also think that MOST are doing their jobs the best they can under very difficult circumstances.

[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

Wanting footage of the police officer being assaulted is very reasonable.

Bullying and intimidating rather than asking like a normal person is not okay.  Asking for the footage to be emailed to them would

be more appropriate...... and have saved them this negative press, and personal embarrassment.

[bright.ton42]

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@debra9275 wrote:

It looked to me that they just wanted to be able to march on Anzac Day. I feel bad for the aboriginal man who said he fought in the war

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Yes I felt bad for him too as I feel very bad for the way our returned aboriginal soldiers were treated.  It was disgusting and shameful.

However I don't think Anzac Day was the day to stage a Frontiers March with all its ramifications.  It is a separate issue and I agree totally with the feelings behind the Frontiers Marches,  but just not to hold it on Anzac Day.

[debra9275]

I think they should have a seperate day for that too. and the soldiers /family members cold march alongside all the others soldiers/family members in the Anzac Day marches

http://www.smh.com.au/national/ww1/undeclared-frontier-wars-march-on-anzac-day-20150424-1msmkj.htmlD...

I had cousins and great uncles who went and fought in the Great War," Mr Anderson said. "They were in Gallipoli. They were in France and Belgium."

However, they returned not as war heroes but to the missions as second-class citizens.

The Undeclared Frontier Wars marches were an attempt to right this wrong by commemorating their sacrifices for Australia as well

Rabbit, if the police could have just said that that was what they wanted the film  for in the first place, instead of badgering the guy with all that , you look nervous, you're shaking intimidatory rubbish...   then. I would probably see it in a different light

[lal-au0]

in a way the video was quite funny. in that sort of "i don't know if to cry or laugh" way.

[imastawka]

Myles Morgan is indigenous.

I think he may have been shaking as the Police officer says, because he is well aware

of what police can and do to indigenous people.

National Indigenous Television has asked for the AFP – which runs policing in the ACT – to apologise for its treatment of the journalist, as well as implement better cross-cultural training.

The video has apparently gone viral.

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/05/01/video-afp-officers-allegedly-intimidating-nitv-journal...

[debra9275]

thanks Stawka

[j*oono]

It is a bit like that Lal.  As Tas said, it was a bit Monty Pythonesque watching  Sergeant Adrian Craft trying to sound intelligent or like he even had a clue.

[debra9275]

the reporter was just trying to do his job, whoever back there suggested a crime had been committed should watch the film again and hopefully they will understand it a bit better