WATCH: Police videos detail dispute that led to state Rep. John Walker's arrest
This article was published September 29, 2016 at 5:45 a.m.
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Little Rock police on Wednesday released videos of the arrest of a state representative who had been filming a traffic stop.
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LR1955 says... September 29, 2016 at 9:04 a.m.
Walker has lost his golden egg laying geese (today's ArDemGaz: Judge finds no racial bias in takeover of Little Rock School District). About a year ago, different judge, PCSSD/Jacksonville split, same result. The Joshua Interveners are faiding away.
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NoUserName says... September 29, 2016 at 9:19 a.m.
The officers' interaction with Walker was inappropriate and should be addressed. Walker walked up to the car trying to elicit a response. Having read the statute, I believe, based on his intention, he violated it. The arrest was therefore justified.
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billg3112091102 says... September 29, 2016 at 9:44 a.m.
The police should let Walker ride with them for a week to understand what they have to deal with on a daily basis. Also, he should be required to wear a police uniform so he can understand how much fun it is being a target.
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caspertherat says... September 29, 2016 at 12:21 p.m.
John can't scam any more money from the LR Schools so he is now trying the "Police Mistreatment Lottery". People really need to completely ignore him and see how foolish his antics become.
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YoungHog says... September 29, 2016 at 12:39 p.m.
stupid arrest from the get go.. Waste of time.. The initial suspect was already in the car.. they should have moved on.. Yet they wanted to walk over and talk .. waste
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ArkOzark says... September 29, 2016 at 2:38 p.m.
Police Chief Kenton Buckner - you racist coward! You should back your police officers who did a great, unbiased and professional job, both in arresting the young men who were criminals with records, and dealing with the intentional race baiting from the congressman and his lapdog attorney. Both Congressman Walker and Kushukuru walked between the two arresting police cars, and between the officers performing their duties after repeated warnings and instruction not to. Yet you apologized for their arrest? And you suggested that the fine men in blue need additional training? If he were a White man, and not a congressman, you would have been fine with the arrest. You're either a racist, a coward, or both.
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NoCrossNoCrown says... October 2, 2016 at 1:13 p.m.
Why did they go ACROSS THE STREET to accost Rep. Walker to begin with?
They older officer spoke to Mr. Walker with respect and knew that Walker WAS NOT breaking the law. The foolish young cop baited Walker with name calling and became belligerent, because there was no basis for their harassment of this citizen legally filming their actions. I believe that officers anger and temperament caused Walker great concern that someone, as out of control as that officer was, could take his frustrations out on the persons who had originally been stopped. We have seen and heard of these types of out of control officers who will strike, kick or even taser handcuffed persons. They escalate the situation and then even the officers who witness their actions are then forced to corroborate the out of control officer's version of what happened, which sometimes even contradicts the video that was recorded on official police cameras. Who knows what this officer can or will do to the next person he stops or what rights he may violate simply because that person won't weld the legal knowledge that a person like Rep. Walker has.
Rep. Walker will be alright financially because of his law practice, congressional salary and possible other sources of income we know nothing about. So those cheering the LRSD case (which isn't over yet) are mere whiners from the back row of the balcony of life.
This officer was OUT OF CONTROL and I hope the city of LR will not ignore the warning signs he displayed with his actions here.....
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