US Police Arrest Man Who Filmed Them Executing Alton Sterling
Chris LeDay said he was arrested less than 24 hours after sharing the video as retaliation.
Chris LeDay, the man who shared the video recording of the Alton Sterling shooting, was arrested less than 24 hours after he shared the footage on false charges of “assault and battery,” a move he said was an act of police retaliation for posting the video.
LeDay's video went viral after he shared it with his roughly 13,000 Instagram followers, 6,000 Twitter followers, and 2,000 Facebook friends. “I just made it to my job on base and I'm being detained. They said I fit the description of someone and won't tell me anything else. If anything happens I did not resist! Please be aware!” LeDay posted on Facebook just hours after he posted the video on July 6.
He said he was arrested at a security checkpoint on his way to his job as an aerospace ground equipment technician at Dobbins Air Reserve Base.
He added in another Facebook post that he was surrounded and detained by ten military police officers, some of whom carried M-16 rifles. However, the warrant for his arrest mentioned nothing about an assault and battery charge.
“It was just over some traffic tickets from a couple of years ago,” LeDay said. “They said my license was suspended.” He was forced to spend about 26 hours in jail before he agreed to pay a fine for the unpaid tickets.
But LeDay thinks the false charges were more than meets the eye. He told Photography Is Not a Crime that he thinks the police chose to make a scene by arresting him at his workplace because someone in law enforcement was trying to get him fired in retaliation for posting the Alton Sterling video.
US Uncut website said an assault and battery arrest would have been immediate grounds for his dismissal.
The 37-year-old Sterling was shot multiple times in the chest and back while he was being held on the ground by police.
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