alanabit--those are not my facts, but direct quotation of the article. You can paste the address and read the whole article yourself.

I just read in a community paper here in the L.A. foothills about a young man who was arrested and charged with "'attempted lynching' of a police officer" in this case a school cop. No, he did not try to hang him, from a lamppost nor in any way, apparently, have any physical contact with him, nor even incite others to do anything. What he did do was videoing, with his cell phone, the school officer allegedly harassing another student!

He was originally offered a "deal" of seven years in prison for this heinous crime, but eventually he was allowed to plead to resisting arrest (I guess because he then became the focus of the police guy's wrath) for which he is now on probation and his record will be expunged when he successfully completes probation.

The difference between the young man and Mr. Allison? Allison photographed and recorded his own encounter with the law, the lad took pictures of someone else's encounter. But to me there is no real difference. Law enforcers need to be held accountable for their actions when they do wrong. Sometimes only the fate of being videoed in the act...think Rodney King out here...will allow for justice to be done.