DaGaffer
Down With That Sorta Thing
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any clue as to why that guy was being arrested? I had to watch without audio, and haven't a clue from visuals only.
Reading around, it was apparently a hostage situation with armed robbers in the house, the guy with the dog, Leon Rosby, left his car stereo on really loud and was walking behind the swat guys with the dog and a camera. The cops are claiming he shouldn't have been there and was "obstructing justice". Which sounds like bollocks to me; why didn't the police just put up a tape barrier across the street where everyone else was standing? Cordoning off the area is SOP for any situation like that.
If you look on Youtube you can see a second vid that shows all the other bystanders were stood well back but Rosby took it upon himself to get closer, so he does have some responsibility for what happened, but the police shouldn't have let him get that close in the first place.