Did Adelman Assault Woman on Lower Greenville?
Submitted by Allen Gwinn on Thu, 06/04/2009 - 19:08.
Lower Greenville activist Avi Adelman can be in your face. Sometimes, as was the case last weekend, his language can be colorful.
But what would cause Adelman, an icon with his camera on weekend nights, to snap and assault a woman? Did events unfold differently than 25 year old restaurant worker Arikca Nichole Hanson say they did?
Dallas.Org has obtained exclusive footage captured by Avi Adelman the night of the assault.
The following video starts out with comments made by Hanson in a Channel 11 TV interview earlier in the week.
Hanson says: "Apparently I got in his way and he didn't like it so he shoved me."
Hanson, later in the interview says: "I don't think there's anything good about recording a guy who is unconscious on the ground." Hanson has claimed that the person suffered from a medical condition and was not drunk.
The supposedly unconscious person can be seen motioning Dallas Fire and Rescue personnel to tell them he "had a little bit [...] I had something."
After a paramedic asks him "a little bit of what," Williamson motions the paramedic away.
In other portions of the tape, not aired by Dallas.Org, Hanson and her friends can be heard talking to one another.
Hanson also told Channel 11 news that "what [Adelman] was doing down there is horrible; it was not his business to be recording the situation...and..."
Adelman's tape closes with Hanson and her friends taunting him saying "wave to the camera."
So do Hanson's comments tend to indicate she was less than a "passive victim" in the situation? Did Hanson try to stop Adelman from filming?
Time, and perhaps a court trial, will tell.
As for Adelman, he continues to refuse comment on the matter until it has been resolved in court.
So...
Whatever came of this?
[Ed Note: Avi has a court date pending... no other developments]
Why would she say this?
She should talk to a lawyer before saying these things in the news. She should have said no comment. This makes her look really bad.
An activist
Yes her comments make her sound like an activist herself. Maybe shes not so innocent.
Her opinion?
In her opinion, he shouldn't have been filming. That is just it--and that is all it is, her opinion. His opinion was different. She was not connected to the man on the ground, so her opinion has no more weight than Avi's.
Avi's tape could also show if a man got adequate emergency care, or it could have been used as a witness statement corraboration at a trial if the man was a victim of a crime.
But no, she thinks it was not right to film, so who died and left her as queen?
Hey Aricka I read your same
Hey Aricka I read your same post over on Unfair Park and it's could HAVE, sweetie, not could OF.
Please clarify
Allen -- did you edit this from "exclusive footage captured by Avi Adelman", or is this a propaganda piece produced by Adelman himself? And if the latter, why are you bothering to present it, since that would make it pretty much the opposite of any objective view of the situation?
[Ed Note: I edited it. I have the complete footage.]
That's pretty lousy editing!
That's pretty lousy editing!
[Ed Note: Why thank you!]
Real Men v The Law
As someone who works in the media, I want to comment on this statement ANONYMOUSLY.
The law regarding media coverage of news events is not predicated on "What would a real man do?" For starters, a lot of women are TV videographers, so how would you filter them out?
The issue is NOT what a real man would do, but WHERE was the incident taking place. In this case, and according to the police reports, it took place on the public sidewalk. Therefore, anyone - public citizen or media crew - can document the incident.
It also does not matter what the reason for the complaint was - diabetic shock, bar fight, fainting due to drug overdose. The media person covers the incident without filtering or judgment on the spot, and lets his editors decide if it should or should not be printed or shown on TV. In fact, if the cameraman made a judgment call not to shoot the incident, he should be fired for allowing his personal opinions to get in the way of his work.
On a financial note, what if this had been a TV cameraman from my station?? Those big cameras are not cheap, and the lenses on them can cost upwards of $20,000. If you had raised your hand to my cameraman, he would have been legally justified (yes, there are court cases to reference) in pushing you very forcefully away from the camera in order to protect himself and the equipment.
Your 'real men' argument is useless in court. The judge will look at you and say, "Your opinions not only do not matter here, but I am inclined to believe that you took the law in your own hands and pushed the camera person out of the way on purpose."
As to 'real men' not raising their hand to a woman, do you realize how many women are convicted of murder each year?? Is a potential victim of some raving lunatic female supposed to hold his hand while getting the crap kicked out of him by a woman just to be polite??
I sincerely doubt you will go that far.
Lets try to get your story
Lets try to get your story strait allen - firstly the guy on the ground could of been drunk, on drugs, had a medical condition...who knows considering we had no idea who the guy was. we happened to be standing next to him, some guy decked him and ran off, man fell to the ground, no one bothered to try to help, just stepped over him so we (mind you it took two of us considering we weigh 115) to roll him over. we took his pulse and tried to unsucessfully wake him. so with a bit of intelligence we flagged the cops down and asked them to call the paramedics. end of part 1. next we filled out statements and answered questions. now let me clarify something else, i haven't had a sip of alcohol in almost 2 years so i can promise i wasn't drunk. next we went back to check on the guy, see if someone knew who he was or who to call - again thats what decent human beings are raised to do. well walking back over to him got us in the way of the camera...hence the pushing and cussing by avi. if he is innocent he would post the entire video but he won't because he is still trying to figure out how to edit out his voice and his actions. i don't care who avi is or what he does. i don't go out to bars so if they close it doesn't affect me and i live in suburbia because i like the quiet and being able to let my dogs run in the park so if the bars stay open still doesn't affect me. i don't care if avi black mails people or not and i don't care what his yard looks like or who pisses in it. i only got pissed when he put his hands on a woman...that was enough to mess me off and it was enough for me to make sure an assault charge was filed and it was even enough for me to wonder what in the world he was doing filming us instead of his story of the night. its pretty cut and dry, real men don't push, shove or hit women, real men don't even consider raising a hand to a woman. post this allen.
[Ed Note: Thanks for the update. We're still trying to get more information about the individual on the ground.]