{"id":426,"date":"2014-12-17T18:46:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T23:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/?p=426"},"modified":"2014-12-25T01:21:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T06:21:39","slug":"police-videotaping-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/426\/take-action\/police-videotaping-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Police videotaping revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[php]<br \/>\n$thisSubdir=&#8217;gen_info&#8217;;<br \/>\n$thisPage=&#8217;APD videos&#8217;;[\/php]<br \/>\n<em>Actual police video of Samhain 1996 and activist video of police videotaping cannabis activists in Asheville City Council meeting, 1998, released here for the first time.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"notepaper oldenred bold\" style=\"padding: .5em;\">\n<h3>See articles about our video release:<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"pentacle-bullet\">\n<li> Asheville Citizen-Times, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizen-times.com\/story\/news\/local\/2014\/12\/18\/wiccans-release-internal-police-video\/20589375\/\" title=\"Wiccans release internal police video of Halloween rite\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Wiccans release internal police video of Halloween Witch Rite&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Wild Hunt, <a href=\"http:\/\/wildhunt.org\/2014\/12\/asheville-newspaper-sues-police.html\" title=\"Asheville Newspaper Sues Police over Surveillance Videos\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Asheville Newspaper Sues Police over Surveillance Videos&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"left\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jbl_eLv5zP8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"left\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bh5c8fdtF7U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"left\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ILBEGKlrhaU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Smuggled APD video released<\/h2>\n<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 12\/17\/2014<br \/>\nAsheville, North Carolina<\/p>\n<p>\tFor decades local Wiccan authors Dixie Deerman (Lady Passion) and *Diuvei (Steve Rasmussen) have been police-reform activists encouraging public scrutiny of Asheville Police Department policies \u2014 ranging from the arrest of pro-peace marchers and the automatic charging with resisting arrest of victims of cops\u2019 excessive force, to questioning the department\u2019s motive in buying a riot tank. <\/p>\n<p>Amid widespread national allegations of police abuse of power, the pair are now releasing online two videos that spotlight the APD\u2019s longstanding practice of filming citizens who are legally participating in permitted special events or engaging in public input at City Council meetings.<br \/>\nOne of the films is from APD\u2019s own archive, smuggled out of the department by an officer uncomfortable with the practice. Showing a cops&#8217;-eye view of Coven Oldenwilde\u2019s 1996 downtown annual Halloween (Samhain) Public Witch Rite, the seven-minute excerpt features the APD video taper refusing to answer a participant demanding to know who he represented, APD or a drug-enforcement agency, as well as other revealing and sometimes unintentionally humorous scenes. (Full 19-minute video available upon request.)<\/p>\n<p>\tThe second video, from a fellow activist\u2019s point-of-view, shows a uniformed and an undercover cop filming residents waiting to give public input to Asheville City Council about the proposal to make marijuana the lowest priority of city law enforcement, and the same plainclothes cop filming them actively appealing to Council-members in chambers. The 3-minute clip, shot in Sept. 1998 by a member of Community of Compassion for Cannabis, features the police officers&#8217; evasions or refusal to answer the activists\u2019 questions when challenged about their identities and purpose.<br \/>\n\u201cAs long ago as 2000, when the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) was considering renewing APD&#8217;s accreditation, Lady Passion and I publicly pointed out how their arbitrary and secretive videotaping practices violate basic national standards,\u201d states *Diuvei. \u201cFourteen years later, APD continues to film people without any transparency or accountability.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe deem it outrageous,\u201d Lady Passion adds, \u201cthat they refuse to reassure the public about their storage methods, who has access to the footage, and if and how the film is ever destroyed. It\u2019s easy to conclude that the APD turns sinister cameras on people who assemble in an attempt to repress their free speech.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The videos can be viewed on Coven Oldenwilde&#8217;s YouTube channel, youtube.com\/user\/oldenwilde, and website: oldenwilde.org. <\/p>\n<p>***<br \/>\nContact: Lady Passion (Dixie Deerman) or *Diuvei (Steven Rasmussen) at: oldenwilde@oldenwilde.org<br \/>\nPhone: (828) 251-0343<br \/>\nCell: (828) 335-2486<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[php] $thisSubdir=&#8217;gen_info&#8217;; $thisPage=&#8217;APD videos&#8217;;[\/php] Actual police video of Samhain 1996 and activist video of police videotaping cannabis activists in Asheville City Council meeting, 1998, released here for the first time. See articles about our video release: Asheville Citizen-Times, &#8220;Wiccans release &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/426\/take-action\/police-videotaping-revealed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-take-action","category-community-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldenwilde.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}