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Are Cameras the New Guns?
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"In response to a flood of Facebook and YouTube videos that depict police abuse, a new trend in law enforcement is gaining popularity. In at least three states, it is now illegal to record any on-duty police officer."
"Even if the encounter involves you and may be necessary to your defense, and even if the recording is on a public street where no expectation of privacy exists."
"The legal justification for arresting the "shooter" rests on existing wiretapping or eavesdropping laws, with statutes against obstructing law enforcement sometimes cited. ..." ...
"Carlos Miller at the Photography Is Not A Crime website offers an explanation: 'For the second time in less than a month, a police officer was convicted from evidence obtained from a videotape ..." ... -------
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Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States. — Noah Webster in "An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution," 1787, in Paul Ford, ed., Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States, at p. 56 (New York, 1888). |
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