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Originally Posted by willravel
By "pointless" you mean that in the first article the police were clearly at fault? From a legal standpoint, some kid was dragged from his own property and arrested for taking a picture of a public occourance. Where I come from, that's called illegal. Shouldn't the police be heald responsible for their actions? Aren't laws supposed to protect the innocent?
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IF what the family said is true then yes the police are at fault. Abusive police breaking the law is not nearly as dangerous to society as laws which would allow them to be abusive.
Story one is maybe the cop did something wrong, big deal to the people involved maybe the cops need to be disciplined, but its no different than any standard abuse of power. Its handled at the individual level.
Story two is the only one that matters from the concept of it being against the law to film the police, and in such my OP stands unchallenged. Its most likely due to a law meant to PROTECT private citizens from unauthorized surveillance due to the cry for privacy laws once the hidden camera craze started (we all remember those stories about the couple with a camera hidden in their bedroom and there were no laws against it). The fact that it can be used to not videotape police on your own property was most likely due to the law being poorly written. Its a concern, but that doesn't mean its anything deeper than that and should be changed. I won't get up in arms about the police state coming.