Meet Los Angeles Citizen Journalist Beatriz Paez, US Marshals Trashed Her Phone in Viral Video HD

Most citizens would cower in the face of a man with an assault rifle. Beatriz Paez made sure to hold her phone horizontally and stood her ground while asserting her rights to lawfully record the police. Story: http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2015/04/los-angeles-sheriffs-deputy-snatches-camera-from-woman-smashes-it-to-sidewalk-kicks-it/ Strapped with an assault rifle, a United States Marshal stormed up to a woman recording from a residential sidewalk, snatching the camera from her hands and sending it smashing to the pavement before kicking it towards her in a shocking display of rage. The marshal then walked off with a group of other armed cops who were part of a task force operation, without trying to enforce any law that Beatriz had violated. Only this cop had violated her civil rights, and Beatriz hired a lawyer to fight back after her neighbor filmed the whole incident.