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Is Videotaping the Police a Felony?

Posted by kdawson on from the turnabout-is-fair-play dept.

AtomicSnarl writes "When Carlisle, PA, police noticed their traffic stop was being videotaped, they arrested the fellow with the camera for felony wiretapping. From the story: 'Kelly is charged under a state law that bars the intentional interception or recording of anyone's oral conversation without their consent... An exception to the wiretapping law allows police to film people during traffic stops.. [An assistant DA] said case law is in flux as to whether police can expect not to be recorded while performing their duties.'"

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  1. I love laws like this... by Derekloffin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nothing better than a law which let's a public entity have legal protection from public oversight.

    1. Re:I love laws like this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Public oversight? What are you, some kind of freedom-loving hippie?

      We citizens of the Homeland are in constant danger. Terrorists brazenly roam the countryside, nuking preschools when we least expect it.

      How do you expect the police to do their job when they are constantly hogtied with red tape, unable to perform a little simple extrajudicial torture without spending huge amounts of time and money to ship the detainee overseas?

      The answer: they cannot.

      We should cheer when a terrorist-sympathizer photographer is arrested. That's one less evildoer threatening our benevolent overseers' iron hand, and one less distraction from our nation's righteous course.

  2. Re:If they have nothing to hide .... by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's wrong with filming the cops? I think either FOX owns the patent on videotaping the police or the RIAA owns a copyright on videos of 'the Police'.
  3. The bad argument... by Aminion · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Hey, if the police have nothing to hide, why do they object to being videotaped?"

  4. Sure, videotaping The Police is illegal by SpaceLifeForm · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just ask MPAA and RIAA.

    Oh, you meant actual cops? Never mind.

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