“Cops” videographer killed on location
Yahoo TV reports that a videographer of the long-running “Cops” show was killed by police while they were taping a new show;
Initial reports said the TV crew member — now identified by Langley Productions (which produces Cops) as 38-year-old audio technician Bryce Dion — had been critically injured. The news of his death broke Wednesday morning, as first reported by the Omaha World-Herald and local NBC affiliate WOWT. Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer named the victim, along with the suspect Cortez Washington, 32, at a press conference Wednesday afternoon.
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Schmaderer would not confirm reports that more than 30 shots were fired by officers, saying only that he did not believe an excessive amount of shots were used. No officers were injured in the incident.
The fellow they were closing in on was a parolee with a criminal history and he was “armed” with an AirSoft gun.
Category: Phony soldiers
If the suspect was only armed with an Airsoft weapon then tragically Mr. Dion was killed by police crossfire.
“Reality TV”
Doesn’t get more real than that……..
That’s why they have a Director and Production manager. “Just keepin’ it real”.
I once found myself on the periphery of one of these shows, and I won’t speak or type the name of that shitshow without spitting. The cameras were following a gal at the next station over from mine as part of a short-lived “reality” show about female firefighters. She didn’t want the attention, but the powers-that-be shoved it down her throat and those of a few other females as a PR dog-and-pony. In each case they followed her around the station and chased the engine on calls, filming her and everybody else in sight (my less-than-handsome mug appears in a few episodes).
A few months later, it appears on TV. All the footage they shot of they stuff that actually happened has been re-cut, edited, and shown completely out of order (things shown earlier that actually happened later, etc.), stripped of all context, and tangled into complete fiction. A female who was an experienced senior firefighter in a tight-knit crew that valued her highly was portrayed as the “new girl in the boys’ club,” while another found that her experience at work (allegedly the focus of the show) was ignored in favor of making her home life out to be some kind of “Real Housewives” nightmare, again unrelated to reality. Supposedly it was to “create drama” or some such crap. According to all of us, including the “stars”–who were downright humiliated by the “edited” presentation–all it created was bullshit.
I expect “cops” probably has a similar setup. The caneraman is all smiles and ass-kissing at the time. Then the director and other assorted camp followers come in after the fact and decide what they want the narrative to be, then cut, edit, and rearrange the real footage to fit their canned fantasy.
If Cortez Washington only had an Airsoft, then the poor guy was shot by police. Directly by mistake or in a crossfire by mistake. You know America wants to salivate over crime and cop shows like this but they, by and large, are dumb enough to think it all happens by magic. They forget their are real people behind those cops, filming, doing sound and so forth. I am sorry for the guy and his family.
Tip for all of you young kids considering a career in TV audio…stick to gamer shows.
He was killed by an airsoft gun! YES … The airsoft gun started it!
Do we have a pedigree on perp?
A whole lot of Dumb Ass going on with weapons!
Editorial Notes:
1. DEA Agent shoots self in leg in classroom as children watch. Bleeding, the Agent grabs a full auto rifle to further demonstrate his skills. Children scream, “NO”!
2. Nine year old girl involved in tragic killing of instructor with Uzi. The death should be classified as “Suicide”.
3. Perp starts (by his own behavior) a gun fight with Cops while toting a airsoft gun. Cameraman dies.
In all cases, irresponsible adults failed to behave properly while playing with what they believed to be “toys”.
One final note:
Every responsible weapon owner in this great land must review Chris Matthews’ comments last night regarding Uzi incident. He said, “I thought all automatic weapons have been banned in this country for years”, “in this case the Uzi killed the instructor, not the 9 year old girl” and it goes on and on. The guests were pure gems too. Nanny Bloomberg mouth piece was on as well, she had her elevator speech down so well she did not realize her stats supportted responsible gun owners. The 2 mil, 2/3 and 2 deaths per week math is comedy gold. It basically says, 2 million irresponsible gun owners, 2/3 of children living in such households have access to weapons and 2 are killed each week. WHAT? No dumbass! Of the 2 million households of irresponssible gun owbners, more like 100% of kids living there have access to weapons and it is only a miracle 100 per week are not killed. So, what the fucht does this have to do with an irresponsible range owner, idiot parents and dumbass instructor who have scared a young girl for life? WELL?
Geeze us Christ!
The report I read said that the sound guy was wearing a bullet resistant vest but the round hit him in the arm and went into his chest through an unarmored area. He got separated from his cameraman ad was in the line of fire at some point. It looks like he crossed a tube at the worst possible moment. A tragedy that will be repeated, I’m afraid. Bad accident, nothing more.
How the hell….
I would have never expected to hear that. Somebody has some explaining to do.
So COPS shot a citizen camera man that was imbedded in the show. They also have film of a raid gone wrong and a dead baby. But hey, the spokeshole of the show whos son had his head cut off and dumped in a canal. This guy wants to take guns away, even though he has NEVER been the victim of a gun crime. I am sorry for his loss but John needs to realize guns are objects, severally punishing criminals is the cure.
Are you talking about John Walsh? He’s behind COPS?
Not sure about the Laws where the shootig took place but I know a few states, like Florida will charge the criminal with a minimum of manslaughter if someone is killed because of their actions.