Video Recovered After DHS Coerce Man To Delete Footage, Detain For Asserting Right To Remain Silent (Original Raw Footage)

(N.Morgan) DHS officers thought they had covered their butts when they forced a man to delete footage he had taken of the officers denying him his right to remain silent, boy, were they wrong! However, the vigilant citizen had made sure not to lose the precious footage and had backed up by the popular smartphone application Dropbox. Technology these last few years have really become the mortal enemy of the crooked cops and law enforcement. Giving a not so stellar view of some of the worst cops, acting their worst and in this case, again technology stepped in to make sure their misdeeds were exposed. The video shows the man, who has requested to remain anonymous, invoking his 5th Amendment right to remain silent as he is threatened with arrest for doing so. In the initial exchange, one DHS officer can be heard saying “Okay sir, right now you are facing several charges… We don’t have to have probable cause.”

The DHS agents tell the man to pull over to a secondary inspection area, where they threaten to break his window for not rolling it down. One officer can be heard saying, “Resisting or impeding an officer inspection… you are under arrest. Your phone will also be seized.” Another officer then can be seen retrieving the mans smartphone from his car and stopping the feed. “I was detained for about an hour, fingerprinted and photographed. I was told that I would be released without charges if I deleted the video from my phone,” the man told LibertyFight.com.

The man, a military veteran, also says the DHS supervisor threatened to have his concealed carry permit revoked and to ban him permanently from all government installations.

“The Supervisor reaches in and seizes my phone that I was videotaping with. I was handcuffed and taken inside a nearby building. I complained several times that the handcuffs were too tight. I was read my Miranda rights and placed into a holding cell. After some time I was finger printed and photographed then placed back into a holding cell. I remained under arrest for approximately one hour or more. I also explained to more than one agent that I was a diabetic and needed my medication soon. When the Supervisor finally came to speak with me, his conversation had nothing to do with my false arrest and the numerous blatant violations of my constitutional rights; it was more along the lines of his job and where he grew up. He then told me that I appeared to look like a Ukrainian or Russian or Irish immigrant. Then he stated that he did not have time to deal with US Citizens (which he had established that I was a US Citizen at this point) only immigrants At that point he proceeded to tell me that if he were to have me prosecuted that he would have my concealed handgun license revoked and that I would never again be able to set foot on another government installation. He then proceeded to tell me that if I deleted the video from my phone that I would have his word that he would not prosecute me and I would be free to leave. He sat beside me on a bench and selected the videos from my phone (as I scrolled through them) that he wanted me to delete. After he was satisfied that the videos were deleted he escorted me back to my vehicle where then I was free to leave.”

Luckily the man was using Dropbox, a file hosting service that allows users to put files in a special folder in the cloud that can be accessed across multiple devices. Even when the source file is deleted from the device it originated from.

The Fifth Amendment creates a number of rights relevant to both criminal and civil legal proceedings.  In criminal cases, the Fifth Amendment guarantees the right to a grand jury, forbids “double jeopardy,” and protects against self-incrimination.  It also requires that “due process of law” be part of any proceeding that denies a citizen “life, liberty or property” and requires the government to compensate citizens when it takes private property for public use. 

Amendment V

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

More Stories Contributed By N. Morgan