at the end of a day of extremist protest in san francisco against an international economic conference held in another city in another country on another continent, an incident occurred in which an arson was allegedly attempted against a police vehicle. it is also said that two officers were injured in relation to the incident.josh wolf, who was both documenting and participating in the events, is reasonably suspected of having captured the attempted arson on video. this suspicion is based on footage that he selected and provided for local television network mainstream news affiliates. a subpoena has been issued for the remaining footage, with which wolf has refused to comply. he is now in confinement, set up with an nlg attorney, and attempting to present himself as a martyr for press freedoms. his defense is to claim journalistic privlege over what is in fact video of a public event captured by someone with a blogspot account. here's what precident would be set if josh's defense is successfull: any witness close to any defendant can defy any subpoena by claiming the satus of "journalist" by virtue of having posted about it on the internet. the ability to investigate and prosecute crimes would be wounded in the course of this ego trip..wolf's role in this more clearly resembles obstrucion of justice and accessory to - i suppose you could call it skateboard hooliganism - than anything related to press freedoms or "social justice".his controll over the image, as distinct from the reality, of that event is what josh wolf and his legal council are bumming change for. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------it can be inferred that the following footage follows the incident which the prosecutor is investigating. the location of the action depicted here appears to be a block from a mainstreet. we can speculate that the arson and injuries occurred amidst a breakaway march arranged amongst the white teens seen milling about, exhibiting no genuine fear of official abuse. indeed, many are evidently baiting the officers they encounter. the action depicted centers around a solitary officer who is prone and retaining a suspect. cut from this video also is any material which would show how the officer came to be on the ground restraining a suspect in the first place. in the video promoting josh wolf, only half of this material is used. of this material you may note the following:- a group of at least a dozen masked white teens amass and advance around the prone, solitary officer.- an anarchist attacks the officer with what appears to be an uprooted signpost. - inches from the prone officer, wolf shouts threats past his own camera: "hey cop! you're going to jail for police brutality! your career is over fajita boy!" - an ambush on arriving officers is attempted.- what has been portrayed as a "gun" in promotional accounts appears in fact to be a tazer, which is a non-lethal device. in other words, the man who identifies himself as a federal officer is threatening to "blast" the white teen with a non-lethal device.- as the situation comes under control, josh is told to move along. though he was before a volcano of rage against the machine, he simpers from behind his camera, "i don't have a right to stand on the sidewalk?"
josh wolf obstruction accessory v1 by clorenz1
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