The footage is more coverage of the level of professionalism found in the police department of Santa Monica College. This videographer was prohibited by SMC police from taping a "spoken word" event on May 18 that happened in a public area on the college campus. When the police refused to state clearly the reasons for the prohibition, I turned my camera on them instead. You can see in thie video their response.
There is an atmosphere of bullying and intimidation on the campus coming from these, and other, SMC cops. My effort here is to expose this misconduct to a level where responsible authorities, or the community at large, intervenes to clean up the SMCPD. Within days since these events, many students and professors have shared with me their own episodes of harassment and/or abuse from SMC cops.
If anyone has additional information they think could help, or your own incidents involving SMC police, send it to main@thesiegeonline.net. You can also go to my website, http://thesiegeonline.net for more information about these and other insights about SMC.Tags: SMC Santa Monica College SMCPD Officer Hearn Malone Champagne videotaping intimidation professors police |
