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You guys do not get it? A cop who doesn't want to be recorded just has to walk within 8 feet of the citizen doing so and boom! - instant arrest, footage confiscated, and we're sorry he fell down the steps in prison.
No, I get it. I get why the police would want such a law but I also understand why it was tossed.
I would support making it mandatory for police officers to wear a body cam. Every interaction with the public needs to be taped. Not just for the public should they want to lodge a complaint but to protect the officer against charges of alleged misconduct.
No, I get it. I get why the police would want such a law but I also understand why it was tossed.
I would support making it mandatory for police officers to wear a body cam. Every interaction with the public needs to be taped. Not just for the public should they want to lodge a complaint but to protect the officer against charges of alleged misconduct.
That would work if the body cams did not "misfunction" so often.
Yea right - misfunction - that's a laugh.
until then another set of eyes is critical.
I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.
And I’ll be right there videoing the whole mess if I think something fishy is going down. The ability to stream or record abusive police practices has been a game changer.
It ups everyone’s game.
This. Derek Chauvin would still be kneeling on people's necks if not for someone with a phone recording his crime.
Exactly. The law was made to allow cops to just claim that anyone was too close and arrest them. Then destroy the phone that the footage was on, or just delete it. It was made to abuse and discourage catching egregious behavior.
Get that close or even several feet further away and it makes the arresting officer wary of danger. So now the perps buds, w/o a camera can assist the perp resisting arrest.
Dangerous to put some sort measurement into law. It would require a guy with a camera phone recording the other guy with a camera phone who is recording the arrest.
So some guy closes in on a cop with phone and when he gets close enough, he pulls his gun. Puts the cop at a disadvantage to protect himself.
Shouldn't need a law to not approach a cop involved with an arrest. No need for micro view.
The law is blind but it should not be blind to logic and reason when created.
That would work if the body cams did not "misfunction" so often.
Yea right - misfunction - that's a laugh.
until then another set of eyes is critical.
Not long ago the Ohio police department released the body cam showing the shooting death of Donovan Lewis. The body cam shows the events leading up to the shooting.
As a number of people have pointed out -- there are laws on the books which address impeding the ability of an officer to carry out his duties.
When have current laws ever mattered to Progressives? There are hundreds of laws on the books about "Gun Control", but it doesn't keep them from trying to create more laws. There are also hundreds of laws about various crimes such as Thefts or Drugs, that Progressives just chose to ignore. But now they are concerned about "existing" laws?
This law didn't say you couldn't film police, it said you couldn't get within 8 feet. It didn't bar people involved from filming closer than 8 feet. So if you were a passenger in a car that is pulled over you would still be allowed to film.
I don't even know why any third party would want to get within 8 feet unless their intention was to interfere with police. I don't think there is a video-capable Cell Phone on the market that couldn't clearly video a scene from 8 feet away, with even minor zoom capability you could be 50 feet away and still get quite a bit of detail. Actually the closer you get, the less you may actually end up "seeing".
When we were kids (~70 years ago), my brothers and I loved to play "Cops and Robbers". I always chose to be on the side of the "Cops". That hasn't changed. Interesting to see so many on here who are on the side of the "Robbers".
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