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Originally Posted by Lasereth
They weren't acting unethically or unlawfully until they took the video camera. Them taking the camera is worth bringing up but them cuffing you because you had a gun is just police work. Someone is dead a few houses down, you're sitting there with a gun. It's their job to investigate what happened and you do look suspicious.
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supreme court precedent would dictate otherwise. Police need reasonable and articulate suspicion that a crime has been, is being, or will be committed and the simple act of carrying a gun does not fit that criteria, despite the fact that someone committed suicide 4 houses down.
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Originally Posted by Lasereth
If they charged you with resisting arrest then I highly doubt you simply got out a camera and were arrested. If you made a big fuss then they probably hit you with the right charge anyway.
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since supreme court precedent also states that it is not illegal to videotape police in public and to interfere with that by taking the recorder violates the 4th amendment of the constitution, one can refuse to turn over the video recorder. does refusing to follow an unlawful order constitute cause for arrest?