On the evening of his arrest, at around 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 19, Father Manship walked into My Country Store, a convenience store in East Haven run by Ecuadorians. Inside, the police were removing over 60 expired license plates that had been hung as decorations in the store. The license plates were government property, the officers had said, and they were confiscating them.
Manship entered the shop, took out a digital camera, and began videotaping the East Haven police officers who were removing license plates from a wall in the rear of the store.
The officers immediately ordered Manship to stop videotaping, seized his camera and put him under arrest, according to Manship. Everyone in the store fell silent as Father Manship was led out in handcuffs. He was charged with interfering with a police officer and creating a public disturbance.
After the police arrested the priest, they noticed that the store was equipped with security cameras.
Elio Cruz, a leader in New Haven’s Virgen Del Cisne Ecuadorian community, was in the store that night.
“When [the police officers] realized there was videotaping from My Country Store, they went crazy,” Cruz recalled later. “They said it was illegal and they tried to grab the computer.”
Matute said that three officers entered the back room without his permission and searched the shelves in his storeroom. When they found the hard drive containing the store’s digital security camera footage, they wanted to take it, but Matute wouldn’t let them, he said.
Matute said that the officers then called a detective to bring a video camera to record the security footage off of the computer screen, but the detective’s camera didn’t work.
[See a video clip of three East Haven police officers searching the back room and talking to Matute about his security camera computer and monitor, below.]
Manship entered the shop, took out a digital camera, and began videotaping the East Haven police officers who were removing license plates from a wall in the rear of the store.
The officers immediately ordered Manship to stop videotaping, seized his camera and put him under arrest, according to Manship. Everyone in the store fell silent as Father Manship was led out in handcuffs. He was charged with interfering with a police officer and creating a public disturbance.
After the police arrested the priest, they noticed that the store was equipped with security cameras.
Elio Cruz, a leader in New Haven’s Virgen Del Cisne Ecuadorian community, was in the store that night.
“When [the police officers] realized there was videotaping from My Country Store, they went crazy,” Cruz recalled later. “They said it was illegal and they tried to grab the computer.”
Matute said that three officers entered the back room without his permission and searched the shelves in his storeroom. When they found the hard drive containing the store’s digital security camera footage, they wanted to take it, but Matute wouldn’t let them, he said.
Matute said that the officers then called a detective to bring a video camera to record the security footage off of the computer screen, but the detective’s camera didn’t work.
[See a video clip of three East Haven police officers searching the back room and talking to Matute about his security camera computer and monitor, below.]
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Here be more sons of James Crow Sr.: Jim Crow Jrs. (the milders). Btw, are the signs getting clearer? (Madoff , Manship). Or am I just getting older? (smile). Folks THEIR NAMES ARE MADE-OFF and huMANSHIP.
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