UCB-PD Officer's Youtube Account - Footage of Students Posted

http://www.youtube.com/user/Trueonfire

TRUEONFIRE - What's on fire? The truth? The name of the user seems overly righteous and charged in a sense of a desire to expose the evil leftist communist plot... it's hard to put in words, but it makes sense that a cop with a rightwing sensibility would use a name like Trueonfire.

He claims to be 34 years old - probably true. Not just true, but trueonfire I suppose. Haha... He joined youtube on November 21, 2010, the same date the videos were posted. Trueonfire is the type of person who "likes" their own videos. That is a tacky thing to do.

Video 1: Cal Berkeley Protest 11-18-10
http://www.youtube.com/user/trueonfire#p/a/u/0/x9O5O1T3oCs
Posted: November 21, 2010
Description: "Cal Berkeley students protest and vandalize the campus, causing thousands of dollars damage."

In reality it's people standing around, a few people chalking, man with megaphone. This video has another cop in it - the cameraman is standing so close to the other officer that it gives it away - this is a police camera.

Video 2: Cal Berkeley Protest 11-18-10
http://www.youtube.com/user/trueonfire#p/a/u/1/kkZZbD_WGp0
Posted: November 21, 2010
Description: "Cal Berkeley Students and mostly non student protesters vandalize the campus with chalk and paint. Thousands of dollars in damage to buildings as students watch in anger at protesters."

In reality, students just standing around talking, a few people chalking. The officer tries to claim that most people there weren't students, but nobody in the video stands out as someone who is implausibly a student - everyone looks like a Cal student.

This second video contains a major "tell" that this video was made by a cop, because the last bit of the video has a student asking the officer a question about how much the protest will cost the school. The cop even goes further to leave his voice in the video, with his statement "cool isn't it" and an answer of "a lot". The student asks a question which a random person with a camera wouldn't know, and wouldn't respond to. He's obviously a cop. Then the cameraman swings around shows us who he standing with - more cops.

This second video also has footage of people being afraid of being "in frame" - the looks people give with the way they so quickly exit the frame is a major "tell" that this is a police camera in the hands of a police officer. One person in the footage even takes a picture of the cameraman, with a look on the student's face that makes it so obvious.

To reiterate the summery of this post: A UC Berkeley Police Officer took two videos taken while on duty as a police officer, and put them on Youtube. Furthermore, the two postings contain misinformation about the actions on campus. This is not an unimportant and inconsequential act.