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Dreampuff

(778 posts) Thu May 6, 2021, 07:41 AM May 2021

Getting arrested for videoing the police

https://www.tampabay.com/news/2021/05/05/think-twice-before-you-whip-out-your-phone-and-record-a-cop-in-florida-you-could-be-arrested/

I wanted to post this here since it mainly concerns Florida, but I also posted it under General and if that isn't allowed, please let me know.

As I said, I don't know how this is even possible since we are supposedly fair game to be photographed or videoed when we are outside of our home.

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Getting arrested for videoing the police (Original Post) Dreampuff May 2021 OP

It happens because the police believe they are above the law Miguelito Loveless May 2021 #1

Anything that will put their gestapo tactic's in jeopardy is verboten to them. mitch96 May 2021 #3

How many murders have been comitted over the decades Miguelito Loveless May 2021 #4

I don't know if ACLU affiliates outside of my state (CO) have this, but they have an app that allows hlthe2b May 2021 #2

Miguelito Loveless

(4,643 posts)

1. It happens because the police believe they are above the law

Reply to Dreampuff (Original post)

Thu May 6, 2021, 08:01 AM

May 2021

and can arrest anyone for anything they don't like. 2 fascists on a Florida appeals court are backing the police in this belief. Now, whether it survives further appeal is an open question. IN a sane world, this would not even be a question for litigation. But in the era of the Kavanaugh Court, such things are quite worrying.

mitch96

(14,607 posts)

3. Anything that will put their gestapo tactic's in jeopardy is verboten to them.

Reply to Miguelito Loveless (Reply #1)

Thu May 6, 2021, 04:46 PM

May 2021

Above the law is right... How many of these murders would have gone under the rug if there was not video...
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Miguelito Loveless

(4,643 posts)

4. How many murders have been comitted over the decades

Reply to mitch96 (Reply #3)

Thu May 6, 2021, 04:54 PM

May 2021

before camera phones?

hlthe2b

(106,075 posts)

2. I don't know if ACLU affiliates outside of my state (CO) have this, but they have an app that allows

Reply to Dreampuff (Original post)

Thu May 6, 2021, 09:53 AM

May 2021

for you to stream directly to their servers in the event of a potential civil rights-violating police encounter and thus it can not be deleted. Given it lives on their servers, in all likelihood ACLU would defend you if police/local DAs tried to charge you for filming.

This will likely be appealed further--as it certainly should

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