constitution and i would hope that the united states park police chief teresa chambers would follow suit and issue a similar directive so that the united states park police would also. fall under the first amendment for citizen journalists so when the when this went down what happened you started filming what did what did the authorities do well so this was on march twenty fifth earlier this year and i was witnessing another arrest of a fellow petty cover on the national mall in front of the smithsonian natural history museum i was videotaping with my cell phone or at least i was attempting to videotape myself own can actually get to work but out of principle i kept my camera and followed every order that the officer issued for his order to really remove my camera put my camera away. feel like i know the first minute. well you know that i am allowed to keep my camera rolling so when i get the camera up in front you know to record the incident he asked me clearly put your carry away i refused to until he put my hand behind my back and you were arrested and i was my hands were shaking litt

we have the united states park police present here. so we're going to keep an eye on things out here. i'm arturo santiago, nbc bay area news. >>> a bay area flight attendant was honored today for her heroic act during the september 11 terrorist attacks. hundreds of people gathered for the reopening of the betty ann ong recreation center. the center was completely rebuilt, undergoing a $20 million renovation project, and the mayor says today is a celebration. >> it's the celebration of our community, but it's also the reason why we all agreed to name this betty ann ong rec center was because it is part of the history of a hero coming from chinatown san francisco. >> ong was a flight attendant on board one of those planes that crashed into the world trade center on september 11. she was reportedly the very first person who contact airline officials during the hijacking. >>> after a violent week in oakland, volunteers from people's community medics took matters into their own hands today. the group was stationed at a park near 73rd avenue

concept of our commons we created government in the united states to administer our commons the things we all own in common our roads parks our police and fire stations our army our libraries our public schools and of course government itself because it administers all those commons government itself is the ultimate commons and the way that you and i tell our government how to behave is through our vote so the lynchpin of our republic is our vote it's the most crucial of the commons of the things that let us do everything else and without any public debate or discussion george w. bush turned that most important part of the commons at beating heart of democracy the vote turned it over to fewer than a half dozen very secretive and republican party connected corporations. this is insane we need to learn from ireland's experience and sell our voting machines for scrap metal and go back to counting paper ballots by hand like virtually every other developed country in the world does privatizing our vote was a crime against democracy it's time to undo that crime and take our votes back from deeble to the other corporations you can learn mo