Shelburne Cop-Stop Controversy Goes Global With Coverage by CNN, HuffPo and Japan's Fuji TV
POSTED BY KEN PICARD ON AUGUST 02, 2013 AT 01:27 PM IN CHITTENDEN COUNTY, LAW ENFORCEMENT, VERMONT | PERMALINK
The cruiser-cam video that led MacIver, 56, to challenge the bogus ticket he received last December for running a red light just topped 200,000 hits on YouTube.
MacIver's story — first reported by Seven Days' Charles Eichacker on July 25 — has spread, too. Earlier this week, CNN's Jeanne Moos — famous for her quirky, first-person pieces on news oddities — did one on MacIver's legal showdown with the Shelburne PD.
The story also got some ink, er, pixels, from theHuffington Post.
On Wednesday, MacIver was interviewed via Skype for Japan's Fuji TV's "Tokudane," a morning news program similar to "The Today Show" or "Good Morning America." The show, which airs daily across Japan from 8 to 10 a.m., is consistently the highest rated show at that time, with an estimated 8-10 million viewers.
Shelburne Officer Jason Lawton won't likely be visiting Tokyo anytime soon.
Published on Jul 2, 2013
In the early hours of December 9, 2012 Officer Jason Lawton of the Shelburne Vermont Police Department pulled me over for no reason, and when I objected he wrote me a ticket for something he knew I did not do because he didn't like my attitude. I had three contacts with the Shelburne Police Department and in all the officers, including Officer Lawton's supervisor Sgt. Allen Fortin, made deliberately deceptive and misleading statements. Officer Lawton also deliberately misstated the fact under oath at trial, later claiming the "overactive imagination" defense. For more, visithttp://shelburnevermontpolicedepttraf....
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