Who Watches the Watchmen?
Three men are facing felony charges for videotaping police stopping people outside an Albuquerque bar and giving them random breath tests. The owner of The Distillery believed that the officers were harassing his customers, so he and two employees videotaped them. But the New Mexico Department of Public Safety says the videotaping jeopardized the officers? safety and interfered with them being able to do their job.
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