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Subscribe to RSSSAN FRANCISCO — When police ordered him to drop his gun, the masked man who appeared to be robbing a San Francisco convenience store didn't comply — because he was holding a plastic prop.
That led to a few tense moments when officers inadvertently walked in on a television show filming Wednesday.
Film coordinator Yasmine Yoshida told the San Francisco Chronicle that the robbery was staged for an episode of the Japanese show "World's Most Interesting Footage."
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But the fake robbery at Alpha Market prompted a 911 call to police, who responded with weapons drawn.
According to the police report, officers overpowered the actor after he ignored their orders.
Yoshida says the film crew had all the proper permits and a good relationship with the owner of the market, where they've filmed before.
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Before it is all said and done with someone will be either on their way to prison or chewed up and ran thru the "gauntlet" that is our judicial system and bled of every dime they have in a desperate attempt to maintain their freedom!
Somewhere somehow along the way the people of the United states came to the belief that imprisoning people was the answer to everything and after 20 some years of this and mounting evidence that it is contrary to what prison is supposed to do (prevent people from committing more crimes) yet all you see when you read the newspapers and watch the news is police and prosecutors charging more and more people with harsher felonies for lesser and lesser "crimes"! When will it ever end, the nonsense that has taken over!!!
This may seem obvious, but maybe next time they might want to put up some signs. Something like "TV Show Taping in Progress"...just an idea.
- Edge
I'm pretty sure the cameras would give it away
Not really, especially if it was one of those shaky hand camera reenactment type shows. Generally speaking most of the equipment used could have fit into 2 shoulder bags, even with a high quality TV location shoot.
"Edge of Idaho" ...are you using common sense again ? Shame on you !!!!
Damn...you caught me again. Sorry.
Our police officers are trained to kill first and ask question later. They now that this is the new law of the land and they can't be held responsible for any action they take, because they are blameless. You know "I was just doing by job". The police have a gun on one hip for killing people they think are doing wrong, and a can of pepper spray on the other hip for the protestors, who they know are wrong because their boss the 1%ers says they are doing wrong.
As evident by the piles of dead bodies mentioned in the story. Oh wait, the story was about a misunderstanding where no one got hurt.
Why wasn't the local Police notified of this film shoot? Stooooooooooopid.
You cannot fault the police who were correctly responding to a 911 call of an armed robbery. From what I've read here and elsewhere, it was a tense situation but handled appropriately. Falsely accusing these officers of abuse only undermines the credibility of those cases where there really is a problem. Stop it!