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Motorcyclist Wins Taping Case Against State Police
stevegee58 writes "Slashdot readers may recall the case of a Maryland motorcyclist (Anthony Graber) arrested and charged with wiretapping violations (a felony) when he recorded his interaction with a Maryland State Trooper. Today, Judge Emory A. Pitt threw out the wiretapping charges against Graber, leaving only his traffic violations to be decided on his October 12 trial date. 'The judge ruled that Maryland's wire tap law allows recording of both voice and sound in areas where privacy cannot be expected. He ruled that a police officer on a traffic stop has no expectation of privacy.' A happy day for freedom-loving Marylanders and Americans in general."
The fact that this is even a news.
Are we really, really much better off than the poor schmucks in N. Korea?
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
This is someone who was charged with multiple counts of reckless endangerment, failure to stop, speeding (and when we say speeding, we're referring to "approaching 130mph on a 60mph freeway"), and so on. Let's not go pretending he was some persecuted citizen busted by a cop trying to make quota.
And whilst I disagree with the "wiretapping" b.s., this guy is utterly disingenuous - his video shows the unmarked car clearly has lights flashing, there's audible siren... "I didn't know who it was!" my hairy ass.
Hell, even in this still image, you can see the lights on the cop car. "I wasn't sure if I was being robbed..." - yeah, by some ballsy carjacker who runs someone off the road whilst they're being pursued by multiple cops, okay, I buy that...