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DIY documentarian serves time for refusing to submit video of police brutality during Tompkins Square Park Riots
Read more: DIY documentarian serves time for refusing to submit video of police brutality during Tompkins Square Park RiotsDocumentarian Clayton Patterson captured video of police brutality during the Tompkins Square Park riots in the summer of 1988. When District Attorney Robert Morgenthau ordered Patterson to hand over his camera and tapes as evidence, Patterson refused, citing distrust of…