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law enforcement is above and beyond the law
they can pretty do pretty much whatever they want, and get away with it, hiding behind The Blue Wall, and their buddies the prosecetors.
Once Again, Baltimore Police Arrest a Person For Recording Them
A lawsuit was filed yesterday over a case in which a woman was arrested for recording the police from her car while stopped in traffic. Ars Technica writes, "Police erased the 135-second recording from the woman's phone, but it was recovered from her cloud account according to the Circuit Court for Baltimore City lawsuit, which seeks $7 million."
Baltimore police lost a similar case against Anthony Graber in 2010 and another against Christopher Sharp in 2014. The is happening so often in Baltimore that in 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a letter to the police reminding them that they cannot stop recordings, and most certainly cannot delete them.
Local awareness of this issue is high since the the Mayor and the City Council support requiring police body cameras. The city council just passed a bill requiring them, but the mayor is delaying implementation until a task force determines how best to go about it. The country is also focused on police behavior in light of the recent cases in Ferguson and New York, the latter of which involved a citizen recording.
So the mayor, city council, police department policies, courts, and federal government are all telling police officers to stop doing this. Yet it continues to happen, and in a rather violent matter. What can people do to curb this problem?
law enforcement is above and beyond the law
they can pretty do pretty much whatever they want, and get away with it, hiding behind The Blue Wall, and their buddies the prosecetors.
The cloud is awesome and terrible all at once.
Simply have protests where everybody is recording the police at once. 50-100 people doing so would be a very powerful statement.
Funny how Big Brother is scared of the population watching him.
big overreach on behalf of those cops... its common knowledge that people are allowed to record. i'm glad the woman did the right thing and took it to the court instead of taking some other course of action on the spot. the lawsuit should bring an easy recovery
If you give a about freedom, you should be very concerned about the police state we are turning into. Increased surveillance, special legal status for those in power, retreating due process, warrantless search and seizure, excessive use of force with impunity, and an unrepresented populace.
ing Carcetti was supposed to change things and instead we get the same old tbh.
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So are Klondike Bars.
Recording devices can be used as effective projectiles penetrating 2' plated steel when hurled at the speed of light.
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