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Artist Could Face 15 Years In Prison For Recording His Own Arrest
- bediger 16y agoThis is rubbish on the part of Illinois State. Mere citizens are photographed an filmed all day. Not counting the bus itself, I counted 16 CCTV camera pods between getting off the bus and passing through the security at the entrance to my building. That's in 3.5 city blocks in downtown Denver. Oh, but film a bust, and you're guilty of a felony. It's an open secret that US police abuse their power in petty and tyrannical ways, but the only proof of this sort of thing is made a felony. "Land of the free" - HA!
- rst 16y agoNot just an Illinois thing. Here's an article on similar cases in Massachusetts: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/01/12/police_fight_cellphone_recordings/ http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010... (Note that it starts out with spurious arrests, but if you scroll down, it lists a couple of convictions for the crime of "illegal wiretapping", from folks who just recorded the police at work in public.)