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Photography is Not a Crime
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Singer Chris Brown Won’t be Charged for Snatching Cell Phone from Woman who tried to Photograph him
Number of comments: 6
The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office, which has prosecuted me three times for recording cops in public, will not prosecute singer Chris Brown for snatching a woman’s cell phone after she tried to take a photo of him on South Beach.
According to the Miami Herald:
A memo released Friday [...]
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Albany County Sheriff’s Office Comes out Shining in Viral Youtube Video
Number of comments: 10
By now, I’m sure everybody has seen this video and I’m just late to the game, but I had to watch it several times to make sure I wasn’t imagining things.
And it’s a 13-minute video, which means it sat on my Facebook wall for 48 hours before I had the [...]
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Miami-Dade Police Confiscate Cell Phone that Recorded them Killing Man
Number of comments: 10
UPDATE: The step-daughter did not actually record the shooting. She started recording police when they barged in their apartment after the shooting. One of the cops swiped the phone from her hand and confiscated it, which is even less of an excuse to seize it as evidence.
He then forced [...]
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Photo of Good Samaritan NYPD Cop Buying Boots for Homeless Man is Authentic
Number of comments: 10Officer Lawrence Deprimo bought new boots for a homeless man he encountered in Times Square (Photo by Jennifer Foster).
The photo of a New York City cop buying a pair of boots for a barefoot homeless man came across my Facebook timeline Tuesday night as I was writing the story [...]
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Chicago’s State Attorney doing all she can to keep Draconian State Eavesdropping Law Alive
Number of comments: 10Cook County State Attorney Anita Alvarez has done all she can to keep Illinois’ controversial eavesdropping law from being ruled unconstitutional
For those of us with common sense and a basic understanding of Constitutional law, there is no question that Illinois’ Draconian eavesdropping law should be struck down as unconstitutional.
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Security Guard Claims it’s Against the Law to Video Record Refinery from Public Park
Number of comments: 5
Activists protesting in a public park outside an oil refinery in Texas were told by a private security guard that it was illegal to point their cameras in the direction of the refinery.
The security guard first told them it was Valero’s law, referring to the private refinery based in [...]
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Georgia Cop Arrests Man Video Recording him during Traffic Stop
Number of comments: 5
A Georgia police officer was able to maintain his professionalism for only a few minutes before he arrested a citizen who was video recording him during a traffic stop last week.
Andrew Ogiba, 19, was charged with obstructing or hindering law enforcement officers, because he chose to narrate into his [...]
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California Man Jailed Four Days for Recording Cops
Number of comments: 5
A California man was jailed for four days for attempting to record police officers on a public street.
Daniel J. Saulmon was charged with resisting, delaying and obstructing an officer but the video shows he was standing well out the way of a traffic stop and was only arrested when [...]
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Maui Police Arrest Newspaper Editor for Video Recording Traffic Checkpoint
Number of comments: 5
Tommy Russo, the newspaper publisher assaulted by a cop last year while trying to record on the set of Dog the Bounty Hunter, was arrested this week while trying to record a police check point in Maui.
The video shows Russo pulling up the checkpoint, stepping out of his car [...]
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Prince George’s County Police Chief Displays Hypocrisy in Response to Youtube Video
Number of comments: 5
Two Prince George’s County police officers were suspended last week for producing a Youtube video described by the department’s police chief as “offensive” because it depicted “crude stereotypes” about race.
But if anything, the video is a humorous and accurate portrayal of police behavior in the United States, especially that very [...]
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