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NH Man Arrested For Videotaping Police.. Again

Posted by Soulskill on from the at-least-he's-consistent dept.

OhPlz writes "Back in 2006, a resident of New Hampshire's second largest city was arrested while at the police station attempting to file a complaint against officers. His crime? He had video tape evidence of the officers' wrongdoings. According to the police, that's wiretapping. After world wide attention, the police dropped the charges. His complaint was found to be valid, but the evidence never saw the light of day. Well, guess what? Round two. There are differing reports, but again the police arrested Mr. Gannon and again, they seized his video camera. This time it's 'falsifying evidence' because he tried to hand off the camera, most likely to protect its contents. If there's the potential of police wrongdoing, how is it that the law permits the police to seize the evidence?"

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  1. Re:What are these words? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh go fuck yourself. In my county, the police are Rethuglican through and through.

    DA and Judge Briberyfuck? Both got elected on the strength of "straight ticket" voting. Nobody really knew who the hell they were, but it didn't matter, there were a set of hot-button "referendum issues" on the ballot along with the right-wing fucktard noise machine screaming about how "everyone needs to vote straight ticket Republican or that evil socialist nigger will take all your money and force your kids to get gay married."

    Police? Yeah. The Rethuglicans love to trot out the "new recruits" and sets of officers to prove how "tough on crime" they are come each election cycle. Our local Sheriff actually had that racist dipshit Joe Arpaio running out to campaign for him in the primaries recently.

  2. Re:I've learned not to yell anything at cops by c6gunner · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You prefer authoritarian? I don't. Just because this time your post was primarily authoritarian doesn't mean that you haven't made nationalistic, anti-egalitarian and militaristic posts in the past.

    You know, as much as I appreciate having my own fan-club, I'd really prefer if the membership were limited to individuals of a higher caliber. It's rather annoying seeing the same buzz-words and emotional rants all the time; it would be nice if the bunch of you could put your brain cells together and come up with a coherent argument for a change.