Southern California Cop Deliberately Knocks Camera From Citizen, Claiming It Was "Accident"

by Carlos Miller
PINAC
Apr. 23, 2015

A Southern California cop who became annoyed at a citizen recording him and his cop buddies from a sidewalk walked up to the man and knocked the phone away before claiming it was “an accident.”

But it was clearly not an accident.

It was just an example of a Santa Barbara police officer who believes he is above the law, unafraid to walk up to a citizen and batter them, even while pretending to record himself.

In fact, we believe the cop was Sgt. Mike Lazarus, meaning he was supervising the other cops that night.

When the citizen demanded an explanation, one of the sergeant’s buddies stupidly said, “we can film you too, right?”

“But you can’t touch me and knock the phone out of my hand,” the man, who goes by Santa Barbara Man on Youtube, responded.

When Santa Barbara Man kept complaining, the sergeant and his four fellow cops stood staring at the man like a uniformed street gang, ready to pounce and beat him as we know they would.
According to the Youtube description:

This video is from a man assaulted by a Santa Barbara Police officer on March 7th 2015. The man filming the incident is holding his camera approximately 1-2″ away from his face as the officer strikes the camera and the man in the head while doing so. There will be a complaint filed with the police department and the results will be posted.

The extended version is here showing 4 min before the incident