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Topic: Drop that camera!
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Agent 204
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posted 16 July 2008 05:14 AM
It seems that taking a picture of a cop in Tennessee is a bad idea:
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Nearly everyone carries a cell phone and it’s hard to find one without that camera feature. It’s convenient when you want to take that impromptu photo, but a Tri-Cities area man ended up behind bars after snapping a shot of a Johnson County sheriff’s deputy during a traffic stop.The cell phone photographer says the arrest was intimidation, but the deputy says he feared for his life. “Here’s a guy who takes me out of the car and arrests me in front of my kids. For what? To take a picture of a police officer?” said Scott Conover. A Johnson County sheriff’s deputy arrested Scott Conover for unlawful photography. “He says you took a picture of me. It’s illegal to take a picture of a law enforcement officer,” said Conover.
Thanks to adams684 at Kitco for the link. It seems that the cop is wrong about the legality of the matter, though:
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The American Civil Liberties Union would not comment on Conover’s case without fully reviewing the allegations, but told us there is no law that prohibits anyone from taking photographs in public areas, even of police. Taking photos is protected by the First Amendment.
You'd think cops would know that. I wonder why the cop acted this way? He might just have been throwing his donut-enhanced weight around, but I find myself wondering if the cops generally are trying to put a chill on the practice, so that people will think twice before videotaping them beating someone up.[ 16 July 2008: Message edited by: Agent 204 ]
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Maritimesea
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posted 18 July 2008 01:25 PM
Doesn't seem to make much difference though. The L.A. cops that were found not guilty of criminal wrong doing in the Rodney King case were video taped throughout that thuggery.There a numerous video tapings of cops abusing their power, including a recent local one here in Nova Scotia, and it doesn't seem to matter. There are several TV shows, COPS! comes to mind, that glorifies police brutality to a soundtrack! A helicopter flys overhead filming as a, usually african american or hispanic, male flees from a car cuz the prison sentences are so ridiculous in the U.S., especially for african americans and hispanics, that they have nothing to lose, while any combination of police dogs, boots, batons, tasers, elbows and fists "bring him down". So if that is what passes for entertainment, here in Canada as well, it's no wonder "street footage" fails to engender much outrage. Or at least enough to force change.
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Maritimesea
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posted 18 July 2008 07:16 PM
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Originally posted by scooter:
Made a big different for Premier Glen Clark. For some police I think that is the point of not wanting every person arrested splashed across the internet.As for Mr. King. Definitely a case of justice not being served. We had an incident last year were the police killed a man who had attacked with mother in law and wife with a knife. The family said that the police murdered their son. The video showed otherwise when he attacked the police officer.
Was Glen Clark beaten? Not sure of your point on that one. You seem to be defending the police and I gotta wonder why. They as a group have shown themselves time and again to have no regard for our rights and freedoms. There are psychopaths among them and when an "incident" occurs the police always defend them. That needs to stop. But it won't.
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