Update on Deadly Bakersfield Police Beating: Seized Phone's Video Disappears, Sheriff Calls in FBI
Remaining video may go public soon
Remaining video may go public soon
Man claims he was beaten and tasered
Oh, and also allegedly beating her
After being subject to a stop and frisk in the tube
The law is supposed to be blind, contrary to the opinion of some of its enforcers
Those arrested for filming cops have constitutional rights, the DOJ writes to the U.S. District Court in Maryland
Defendant was standing on public property while filming
This requires a special memo?
She was standing in her own front yard
Also affirms right to take photographs without police confrontation
More adventures with camera
Professionalism on display in Miami
Badges and lenses are a volatile combination
Pictures were taken on public beach, which is perfectly legal
No matter the law, cops remain allergic to cameras
Win for free speech rights
Officers will be retrained in response to teen's arrest
Carlos Miller has become an activist and spokesman for the right to photograph officials
Arrested for shooting pictures of crime scene that damaged his property
Nothing to do with them beating up protesters, they promise
And the police managed to break the law in the process
If you make the rules, you can ignore the rules
The First Amendment, oddly enough, trumps delicate police sensibilities
Because observing is interfering with a cop's ability to get away with stuff
They really don't get the whole "everybody has a camera" thing
If you're going to behave badly, don't do it in front of a camera
They invoked the ever-popular, "it's illegal to record the police."
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