Police Arrest Man Who Posted Video of Alton Sterling’s Death

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The man who was instrumental to making the first released recording of the Alton Sterling shooting go viral was arrested less than 24 hours later on charges of “assault and battery,” a move that he says was an act of police retaliation, according to a report by Carlos Miller with Photography Is Not a Crime (PINAC).

Alton Sterling’s death was still only a local controversy before Chris LeDay shared the video of the killing to his roughly 13,000 Instagram followers, 6,00o Twitter followers, and 2,000 Facebook friends. The video was then shared thousands of times, including by New York Daily News writer and Black Lives Matter supporter Shaun King, who shared it less than an hour after LeDay’s post.

The man who was instrumental to making the first released recording of the Alton Sterling shooting go viral was arrested less than 24 hours later on charges of “assault and battery,” a move that he says was an act of police retaliation, according to a report by Carlos Miller with Photography Is Not a Crime (PINAC).

Alton Sterling’s death was still only a local controversy before Chris LeDay shared the video of the killing to his roughly 13,000 Instagram followers, 6,00o Twitter followers, and 2,000 Facebook friends. The video was then shared thousands of times, including by New York Daily News writer and Black Lives Matter supporter Shaun King, who shared it less than an hour after LeDay’s post.

Chris LeDay

“I wanted everybody to see this video,” LeDay told PINAC. “I wanted it to go viral. The police were already saying their body cams fell off and I wanted to show there was video of the shooting.”

The very next day, while trying to get through a security checkpoint to go to his job as an aerospace ground equipment technician at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, LeDay was surrounded and detained by ten military police officers, some of whom carried M-16 rifles.

The military officers allegedly told him that he was wanted for assault and battery before hauling him to a back room where he was handcuffed and leg-shackled. He was then taken to Dekalb County Jail by local Dunwoody police.
When he arrived, the warrant for his arrest mentioned nothing about an assault and battery charge.

“It was just over some traffic tickets from a couple of years ago,” LeDay said. “They said my license was suspended.”

LeDay wound up being forced to spend 26 hours in a jail cell, only being released after paying $1,231 in traffic fines. He admitted to not paying the tickets and allowing his license to be suspended, because he did not have the money at the time and no longer drives.

“I take Uber to work anyway,” LeDay said. “Even one of the cops on the base said he sees me getting dropped off for work.”

LeDay thinks that police chose to make a spectacle of arresting him at his workplace because someone in law enforcement was trying to get him fired in retaliation for posting the Alton Sterling video. An assault and battery arrest would have been immediate grounds for his dismissal. Fortunately, his boss laughed it off when he learned it was about unpaid traffic tickets.

Despite this harassment, LeDay told PINAC that he will continue to fight police brutality in any way he can. “We need to diffuse what the cops are doing,” he said. “They want to say that not all cops are bad but they are not speaking out against the bad cops.”

“It just keeps getting worse and people are getting tired of it. I just want some change to occur.”

LeDay’s story is similar to that of Ramsey Orta, the videographer of the Eric Garner killing, who claims he was unfairly targeted for other crimes after his role in filming the incident and is currently facing four years in prison on weapons and drugs charges. Orta is the only person involved in the Eric Garner incident who has been charged with any crimes.

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