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• College Cop Fired after Barging into Dorm Room without Warrant

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  In what turned out to be a solid victory for camera-wielding citizens throughout the country, a University of Kentucky-Lexington police officer was fired less than 48 hours after a video went viral showing him and another officer barging into a college student’s dorm room without a warrant.

  There [...]

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• Viral Video of College Cops Barging into Dorm Room Sparks Review within Police Department

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  The viral video showing a pair of University of Kentucky-Lexington cops barging into a student’s dorm room without a warrant, searching for alcohol that they could not find, has sparked an internal review within the police department.

  The cops had also threatened the student with expulsion before shoving the [...]

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• Connecticut State Trooper Arrested after Caught on Camera Stealing Money from Dead Man

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  Connecticut State Trooper Aaron Huntsman was arrested after he was caught on camera taking at least $3,700 from a dead man and not reporting it (photo via Connecticut Post)

   

  Knowing he was being audio and video recorded, a Connecticut State Trooper boldly took at least $3,700 in cash from a [...]

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• Belligerent Student Records Himself Berating Cops as they Force themselves into Dorm Room

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  An antagonistic and belligerent college student may not have known the definition of belligerent, but he did know his Constitutional rights when it came to not allowing cops into his dorm room without a warrant.

  The cops ended up coming in anyway, forcing their way past him in a search for [...]

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• 12-year-old Girl Led out of School in Handcuffs for Mistakenly Photographing other Girl in Locker Room

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  A 12-year-old in Texas was led out of school in handcuffs for mistakenly snapping a photo of another girl undressing inside the locker room.

  The girl said she was trying to photograph herself and another friend with her iPhone Thursday, thinking she had the reverse lens turned on which allows [...]

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• Female Fullerton Cop Accused of Ripping Film out of Witness Camera after Kelly Thomas Beating Death

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  So far, three cops have been charged in the beating death of Kelly Thomas, a homeless mentally ill man whose death sparked an outrage in the normally sleepy community of Fullerton last year and a nationwide outrage once the surveillance video of his murder was released earlier this year.

  Meanwhile, [...]

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• Homeland Security and FBI Release Document Once Again Labeling Photographers as Potential Terrorists

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  Photographers are still being classified as potential terrorists in a newly released document from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.

  The “Roll Call Release,” dated November 13, 2012 and titled “Suspicious Activity Reporting: Photography,” gives a vague reference to a single example where a terrorist may have [...]

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• Florida Corrections Officer Claims it is Felony to Video Record Inmates Working on Side of Road

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  A Florida corrections officer overseeing a group of inmates working on the side of the road dumbfoundedly told a citizen that is a felony to video record them, punishable by a prison sentence.

  The citizen was none other than PINAC reader Jeff Gray aka HONORYOUROATH, who doesn’t back down too easily.

  But [...]

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• Baltimore Police Continue Harassing Photographers Despite USDOJ Warning

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  Baltimore police officer R. Tonks stares down photographer Kerron Fields before chasing him down the street and detaining him for snapping the photo (Photo by Kerron Fields).

   

  After being warned by the U.S. Department of Justice not to violate the rights of citizens who record them in public, the [...]

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• Miami-Dade School Officials Force Student and PINAC Reader to Delete Footage of Security Guard Abuse

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  Joel Franco posing with the camera he earned from his Youtube earnings

  Joel Franco, the 17-year-old aspiring journalist from Miami who’s been written about on PINAC before, was threatened with a ten-day suspension today if he didn’t delete a [...]

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