you have the right to talk to a lawyer and have him present while you are being questioned do you understand your rights can I call my lawyer now do you understand your rights yes no I don't have a phone for you now I have a phone you took it from me you said my right was to be able to call my lawyer that's my right can I call my lawyer welcome back to the lackluster channel in September of 2020 the Alameda fire swept through southern Oregon burning more than 3 000 acres and 2500 homes many of which were mobile homes and other forms of affordable housing as a result many were left homeless and without a place to go the fire burned through the towns of talent in Phoenix and as a result camps were set up throughout the public parks in the nearby City of Medford eventually the Medford Police were tasked to sweep a camp in Hawthorne Park to urge people to explore openings in nearby shelters and campgrounds the City of Medford blurred this entire video and I will address this more at the end of the publication the park is closed now and if you stay here you'd be trespassing okay what's that I'm gonna catch myself again we gotta get the Monopoly game down there yeah you're free but you have to leave the park now what time right now right now the park is closed okay hello sir it's time to head out the Park's closed sir it's time to head out the Park's closed where do you want people to go you have to leave the park the Park's in the greenway where it's all burned down our mission right now is to clear the park out okay that's what we need to do uh where do you want people to go you have to leave to have to leave sir to The Greenway okay is that Services thank you I guess we just find out who's going to cooperate and then we start doing what we got to do okay everybody yeah this isn't my attempt my friend Damien okay well if you leave it here we're gonna end up season it so it's up to you okay well we've been very good about our uh notices after speaking to a few people the officers come into contact with various reporters who are told to stand in an area off the 20 acre Parks grounds next to a noisy freeway and with an obstructed view of their operations how you doing good how about you good good good Park's closed okay so you have to leave okay so if you want to you can go up to the sidewalk or something just don't like make big obstruction but go over the walk back down here to get my car after I'm done no you need to leave you need to take your car out of here okay so if you can do that we appreciate it thank you so it's close it's gonna be closed for 48 hours we're giving everybody a chance to get out thank you so far how you guys doing Park's close guys you need to leave immediately you're now committing the kind of trespass I'm just letting you know so if you guys want to go watch our video you can do it from outside the park but if you don't leave the park immediately you won't be arrested for trespassing okay hey these two are refusing to leave yeah are you leaving are you leaving yes okay see us walking then leave please thank you that's all just letting you know this is Trinity already she's already engaging with them and discussing about this so we need to send them out hey guys it's time to head out Spark's closed yeah it's close it's close now no there's no discussion right now the Park's closed the Park's closed you got to leave right now where are these people supposed to be okay you have to go right now right now we gotta head out the Park's closed you don't have a Park's closed okay the Park's closed you gotta head out eventually Sergeant First approaches reporter April Ehrlich who was displaying her press badge and carried clearly visible audio recording equipment Okay so you're still you're committing the crime of trespass right now so if you're not leaving then you're going to get arrested can I help you I'm a reporter okay so what you need to do is you need to go out there and contact Trevor Arnold if you do not leave the park reporting on this okay you're trespassing I'm not trusting yes you are it's a public park the park is closed [Applause] okay I'm going to tell you right now okay you're committing the crime of trespass the park is closed you have to leave despite her pleadings with the officers April is now arrested and led to a police cruiser event in a public park that's close am I right this is Free Press you cannot arrest a reporter who's documenting an event in a public park okay let's go ahead and face the car here spread your feet please okay you need to take your back up yep you grab this please give me space I need to call someone can you please let Bill your woman no I don't want you guys touching my stuff we have to you're under arrest as part of our job what are you working me for the park is a public park there's no signs possibly interference I have mace in my bag okay do you have anything underneath this jacket I'm a reporter do you have anything underneath the jacket like a shirt I have a sweater and a shirt okay okay you are under arrest I'm going to read you your rights you have the right to remain silent anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law you have the right to talk to a lawyer and have him present while you are being questioned if you cannot afford to hire a lawyer one will be appointed to who at no expense do you understand your rights can I call my lawyer now do you understand your rights yes I am assuming rights no I don't have a phone for you now I have a phone you took it from me you said my right was to be able to call my lawyer that's my right can I call my lawyer so you just offer you tell me my rights but then you don't uphold them I thought that that was your job as a police officer no I understand you want a lawyer I gave you your rights okay I'm saying right now that you don't have an opportunity at this exact moment to call away [Music] girl was charged with trespassing resisting arrest and interfering with an officer she was released from jail the next day because now I can finally see it for myself nearly two years later all charges were dismissed just before her trial shortly after she and her attorney filed a lawsuit against the City of Medford Jackson County and several police and probation officers involved for first and 14th Amendment violations to her freedom of press and speech unlawful search and seizure false arrest and Battery it'll be interesting to see where this lawsuit goes on one hand the park is public and though the city closed it the event was certainly newsworthy and the location the officers directed The Press together was certainly unreasonable it is argued that the officers chose the location purposefully to ensure their actions were not recorded which is also backed up by their release of this completely blurred body cam footage on the other hand the city will likely argue that April's right to Free Press is subject to time place and manner restrictions and that based on the circumstances the government was well within its right to impose content neutral limitations on the press to maintain order and control of the situation I'd love to know what you think of this encounter but before we end today's video I have to point out another important Injustice the City of Medford Oregon charged me nearly two hundred dollars for this footage their rate is 56 dollars per hour to redact portions of body cam footage that they feel shares sensitive information and to protect victims rights however instead of actually spending the two hours to redact the portions of video that may have needed it they just slapped a blur over the entire screen for one hundred percent of the footage they did this in spite of the fact that portions of the video have already been released and are not blurred furthermore they charged me for two hours to blur the video I will now show you how long it takes to blur a two hour video first we put the video in the timeline next we drag the gaussian blur onto the video file file then we input the percentage of blur we want and it's done the entire process took less than one minute and with a decent PC this will take about 15 minutes to render and place on a DVD this is called price gouging first 56 dollars an hour for an editor is steep but not totally unfair but they charge the same rate for someone to make a 37-page PDF containing files that have already been submitted to the courts through Discovery for the lawsuit this behavior is disgusting and is either taking advantage of the public or is done to make transparency through body cams as close to non-existent as possible by charging ludicrous rates hoping that you won't or can't purchase the records but if you do happen to pay they'll just blur it all so you can't see anything anyway and that is the government power does what it wants I hope Miss Ehrlich recovers at a minimum the entire 196 dollars I was charged in her lawsuit thanks for 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