On the other side, the man was merely filming police activity and started shouting and calling names only after the cop grabbed his weapon. It may sound stupid, but in a country full of firearms, and with an average of one cop shot to death per week, cops can be on edge. Perhaps he felt uncomfortable with the shape of the steadycam, he repeatedly said: “I don’t know what this is.” Faced with an uncooperative person standing a few feet away from him he may have felt threatened. At no point was the police officer disrespectful. It seems that the cop didn’t have to point his weapon at the videographer but, on the other hand, the man was not very cooperative by not answering the officer’s question in the first place. I must admit that I feel very uneasy watching this video. Credit: Foundry Co / CC0 Creative Commons A Provoking Videographer or an Unprofessional Police Officer? In the post 911 context, police forces are trained to be suspicious of anything. The next six minutes of the video is an uninterrupted flow of shouting and miscommunication between the officers and the man who calls the first cop a “tyrant” and other colorful names (pu**y, son of a b****). A few seconds later, two more officers show up, and the first cop lowers his gun. Finally, the cop points the gun at the man and keeps asking him to put “this thing down” which only reinforces the fury of the videographer. Eventually, the cop grabs his gun (pointing down) and the man shouts at the police officer. Eventually, the cop politely asks the videographer to “put it down” (the steadycam) because he “doesn’t know what that is.” The videographer finally acknowledges the officer by saying “it’s a camera, you know what that is.” At this point, things escalate very quickly, and as the cop puts his hand on his weapon, the videographer’s voice becomes more aggressive. The cop asks several times, “What are you filming for sir?” but the videographer doesn’t respond. The videographer approaches a cop standing next to his police car and films him with the GoPro steadycam. In that case, police declined to charge the shooter because it happened on his own property.The eight minute video is seen from the man camera presumably installed on the videographer’s chest, but he also carries a GoPro mounted on some handle or mini-steadycam. The confrontation mirrors an incident that happened in Florida in April when a couple said their car was shot at after they accidentally drove to the wrong address for an Instacart delivery. Vetsch was released Sunday on a $50,000 bond. “I didn’t realize it was a different car.” “I was going to tell them ‘stay the hell out of my driveway,’ they’ve been told this before,” Vetsch told a police officer, body camera footage obtained by the News-Journal shows. He told police he thought the man who backed into his driveway was a different neighbor. Vetsch later told police that he pulled the hammer back on the gun when he pointed it at the woman, according to a police affidavit obtained by the News-Journal. In the video, a woman can be seen walking out of the home across from Vetsch’s to confront the man, who then pulls out a gun and points it at her head.Īfter he lowered the weapon, the two continued arguing before Vetsch returned home, according to police. Security camera footage taken from Vetsch’s home and obtained by The Daytona Beach News-Journal shows the confrontation.
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