Growing Number of Prosecutions for Videotaping the Police.

[Ponce]

Pretty good..........4 pages.
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Growing Number of Prosecutions for Videotaping the Police.

Prosecutions Draw Attention to Influence of Witness Videos

319 comments By RAY SANCHEZ
July 19, 2010
That Anthony Graber broke the law in early March is indisputable. He raced his Honda motorcycle down Interstate 95 in Maryland at 80 mph, popping a wheelie, roaring past cars and swerving across traffic lanes.

Anthony Graber was arrested for posting a video of his traffic stop on YouTube. But it wasn't his daredevil stunt that has the 25-year-old staff sergeant for the Maryland Air National Guard facing the possibility of 16 years in prison. For that, he was issued a speeding ticket. It was the video that Graber posted on YouTube one week later -- taken with his helmet camera -- of a plainclothes state trooper cutting him off and drawing a gun during the traffic stop near Baltimore.

In early April, state police officers raided Graber's parents' home in Abingdon, Md. They confiscated his camera, computers and external hard drives. Graber was indicted for allegedly violating state wiretap laws by recording the trooper without his consent.

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WATCH: Caught on Tape: Cop Punches GirlWATCH: Should Cops Wear Body Cameras?WATCH: Cop CamArrests such as Graber's are becoming more common along with the proliferation of portable video cameras and cell-phone recorders. Videos of alleged police misconduct have become hot items on the Internet. YouTube still features Graber's encounter along with numerous other witness videos. "The message is clearly, 'Don't criticize the police,'" said David Rocah, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland who is part of Graber's defense team. "With these charges, anyone who would even think to record the police is now justifiably in fear that they will also be criminally charged."

Carlos Miller, a Miami journalist who runs the blog "Photography Is Not a Crime," said he has documented about 10 arrests since he started keeping track in 2007. Miller himself has been arrested twice for photographing the police. He won one case on appeal, he said, while the other was thrown out after the officer twice failed to appear in court.

"They're just regular citizens with a cell-phone camera who happen to come upon a situation," Miller said. "If cops are doing their jobs, they shouldn't worry."

The ACLU of Florida filed a First Amendment lawsuit last month on behalf of a model who was arrested February 2009 in Boynton Beach. Fla. Her crime: videotaping an encounter between police officers and her teenage son at a movie theater. Prosecutors refused to file charges against Sharron Tasha Ford and her son.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/TheLaw/videotaping-cops-arrest/story?id=11179076

[Ares]

So judges and prosecutors are making it so that you can't shoot an officer with a camera, but turning the people on to the idea that you should shoot the officer with a gun.

Oppression and tyranny are not to be tolerated.

[undgrd]

Here's your argument to continue recording during an encounter with the police.


From the article


"It's not that recording any conversation is illegal without consent. It's that recording a private conversation is illegal without consent," he said. "So then the question is, 'Are the words of a police officer spoken on duty, in uniform, in public a 'private conversation.' And every court that has ever considered that question has said that they are not."

[the biss]

Die Fahne hoch! Die Reihen fest geschlossen!
MDSP marschiert mit ruhig, festem Schritt.
Kameraden, die Videokamera und Tonbandgerät erschossen,
Marschier'n im Geist in unseren Reihen mit.

[Ponce]

Now days all police cars have a recorder and many police officers do have a video recorder with them that is on all the time.

[vacuum]

I think the original purpose for this piece was to scare people from taping the police, but I don't think it's had that effect. The title under the popular stories sidebar is "Videotaping Cops Can Get You Arrested". And the title of the page is "Videotaping Police is Often Cause for Arrest". The title of the article itself is "Growing Number of Prosecutions for Videotaping the Police". They must have changed the title a few times. Originally it was a personal threat, then they changed it to an implied threat, now its simply a statistic.

Its funny to see their stories backfire on them.

[Twisted Titan]

Now days all police cars have a recorder and many police officers do have a video recorder with them that is on all the time.



AND THEY NEVER HAVE TO ASK FOR YOUR CONSENT TO DO THAT. THERE DASH CAM IS ROLLING ALL THE TIME.




WHEN INJUSTICE BECOMES LAW.

REBELLION BECOME DUTY.



T

[gunDriller]

covert surveillance is one of the best weapons against the growing American police state.

i've tried to stay "up" on the field. it is expensive, new gimmicks coming out all the time.

you can do police surveillance with an iPad in a briefcase. among many, many other things.

the "video camera in the eyeglasses" technique, those you can buy, i've seen them for $700. they feature this technology in the first Mission Impossible movie.

too bad i can't trade in all the extinct video crap i've bought for gold or silver.

maybe i should just tie a lead weight to it and drop it near my last boat accident. ;D


but seriously, i don't know how many videos have made the point. Rodney King beating ? that video literally changed the world for black men in LA, the LAPD had to change their racist ways because of that video tape.

some people may not like that example because Rodney King was not a model citizen.

but i would say that a cop has as much right to beat a lying-on-the-ground Rodney King as they do to beat me sitting-at-a-desk-drinking-a-smoothie. none.

[Ponce]

http://www.bigboxstore.com/wholesale-security/spy-cameras/spy-sunglasses-cameras

$49.99 to 69.99 Sunglasses Cameras.

[Saul Mine]

US constitution
14th Amendment
Sect. 1
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

If any cop has a dash mounted camera to record encounters, all citizens have a right to do the same thing.

[illumin19]

You have to be careful on this one......

They (Police) will tell you to stop filming and arrest you for impeding their duties or impeding traffic on the sidewalk or something in that effect.

[Twisted Titan]

Better to relase that video from a alternative portal so It cant be traced back

Once it is on the net it will take on a life of its own.

T