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Photographing Police: Deletion Is Not Forever
Geoffrey.landis writes "The courts have now ruled that the public has the right to videotape the police in the performance of their duties. Of course, that doesn't stop the police from harassing people who do so — even journalists, who sometimes have their cameras confiscated. As it turns out, though, they're not always very knowledgeable about how deletion works. I would say that erasing, or attempting to erase, a video of police arresting somebody illegally (How can a journalist be charged with 'resisting arrest' when he was not being arrested for anything other than resisting arrest?) is a clear case of destruction of evidence by the officers. Destroying evidence is obstruction of justice. That's illegal. Why haven't these police officers been arrested?"
1 "You're under arrest"
2 "For what?"
3 "For resisting arrest"
4 "Arrest on what charge?"
5 "Resisting arrest." GOTO 1
?@#! Calls for an xkcd.
I'm not a lawyer, but I play one on the Internet. Blog
Why haven't these police officers been arrested?
Arrested by who? Their peers who do not want to be videotaped either?
By metacops, naturally.
Every end has half a stick.
Why haven't these police officers been arrested?
Arrested by who? Their peers who do not want to be videotaped either?
By metacops, naturally.
But who metas the metacops?
a Terry Stop is not an Arrest, you can refuse the Frisk, when they ask if they can search you, and you can leave at any time UNTIL they say that you cannot leave, at that point you are under arrest. (FWIW, arrest has nothing to do with handcuffs), If you attempt to leave after the LEO has stated that you cannot, then you would be resisting arrest.
You misspelled "PIG" as "LEO".
I'll abort the singularity by returning us to irrationality by either taking the sqrt of -1 or calling you both asshats with about as much justification as the police often use in the debated dispersal orders ;)
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My wife was stopped for blowing a stop sign.
I would stop her to. That is a weird fetish.
Why haven't these police officers been arrested?
Arrested by who? Their peers who do not want to be videotaped either?
By metacops, naturally.
But who metas the metacops?
Robocop metas the metacops of course. He obeys the directives of the robots.txt, by following the metatags.
Why haven't these police officers been arrested?
Arrested by who? Their peers who do not want to be videotaped either?
By metacops, naturally.
But who metas the metacops?
It's metacops, all the way down.
Why haven't these police officers been arrested?
Arrested by who? Their peers who do not want to be videotaped either?
By metacops, naturally.
But who metas the metacops?
The Obsidian Order.
sudo eat my shorts
The Department of Redundancy Depart is filing a injunction against this thread, they are also talking to a judge about it as well.
I meta cop once, he gave me a ticket.
Take the Red Pill.
http://www.pixiq.com/article/i-recovered-the-full-uninterrupted-video-police-deleted
Check your premises.
My concern is the overwhelming willingness to be treated unlawfully so as to avoid the consequences, and yet so little consideration is given to the consequences of allowing society as a whole to be consistently treated unlawfully.
It's called 'cowardess' for a reason.
I think in this PC era we call both the male and female versions "coward".
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
I'm here from the Grammar Police. That should have been "Arrested by whom?"
The CB App. What's your 20?
Whether it's a fake or not, the point is to use critical thinking. So a whoosh is in order for you.
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