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Ha! That won't stop the great city of Chicago from arresting you and throwing you in the slammer. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/
by jostmey 12y ago
Ha! That won't stop the great city of Chicago from arresting you and throwing you in the slammer.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/05/01/woman-jailed-two-weeks-for-recording-chicago-p-d-s-internal-affairs-officers-can-sue-for-a-fourth-amendment-violation/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm294TYqh6o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm294TYqh6o
... And there are plenty more stories where that came from.
- tptacek 12y agoThe former story, about Tiawanda Moore, concerns someone who was acquitted ~4 years ago, and is now (justifiably!) suing the city. The latter concerns someone who was not arrested.
- balabaster 12y agoYou could surely get around this by announcing loudly to the cop prior to every interaction that this is a public situation and there is no privacy to be found here... as proven by the existence of this camera crew and microphone.
- rewind 12y agoTell that to the 98% of people who will "surely" have never heard of this and think, reasonably, that recording a cop won't put them in jail.
- wavefunction 12y agoWhy would we tell the 2% that already know they can film the police? :P Of course we want to tell the 98% they are free to film as well! But I take your point.
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