Moving the goal posts? I never said anything about a federal law. I said it should never be illegal, and I would add, no one should ever get in any trouble for filming an encounter with the police.
I'm not sure this guy got in trouble just for filming the police. It's more likely that he got in trouble for not "moving along" , basically being a dumbass liberal thinking he doesn't have to listen to an officer's command.
Lonestar. This is why I have to disagree with your conclusion on why he was arrested. He didn't have to "move along". This is America. Not a gestapo state. The police are public servants and have no right to tell the private citizen ( whose taxes pay their check each week mind you) to "move along" when it is quite clear that the private citizen is in the process of recording an arrest in progress. If there was nothing to hide - why the trumped up charges? Why the vitriol? You see?
I fully support the officer in Ferguson and the officers of the NYPD. Without hesitation I say, in neither case did the officers involved do anything wrong. They enforced the law and did not overstep their job descriptions. However! In this matter of videotaping police? I've got a problem. A huge problem. You know why? They have been authorized by the President to videotape Americans. Yet the President does not want us to videotape the police. What is he afraid of? What is the big secret that police officers cannot be videotaped? It's our constitutional right to be able to videotape. In my opinion.
Did you notice how overnight Obama managed to get every police dept on board with wearing camera's on their physical person to videotape ? Do you know how easy it would have been for him to have done the exact same thing in saying I'm enforcing the constitution of the US and telling police departments from here on they will enforce it and protect the rights of citizens to videotape officers during an arrest. Yet Obama didn't do that and he refuses to permit the citizens to have the same rights. Why? Because he is a communist that wants a revolution. Not a resolution. That's why.
Yes as a matter of fact you do. In every single state in the Union, you are obligated to follow the orders of a police officer.
You can back your butt up across the street and keep filming until your dumb phone runs out of power.
But when you are standing a few feet away, and the officer says "MOVE ALONG", that's not an "option" or a "polite request". You are ORDERED to MOVE ALONG. Get your butt out of the officers way.
And when you refuse, and the officer smashes your face in, I"m going to CHEER for him.
And by the way........
This right here, is exactly why countries end up in "gestapo states". Morons like this, refuse to obey the law, there's rape, and murder, and theft, and vandalism, and people being dragged out of their cars and beaten, and the rest of us are getting TIRED OF THIS.
We're sick of your crap. We're tired of "routine murder" now that doesn't even make the news because it's so common. At some point, someone is going to stand up and say vote for me, and I'll end this crime, and the people will be so tired of it, they'll EMBRACE a gestapo state, to end this anarchy in the streets.
We're tried of people just walking into stores stealing stuff, walking down the middle of the road, attacking a police officer, and somehow it's our fault, that scum sucking bit of human debris get's shot and killed.
I am absolutely convinced, 100% convinced, that at some point in the future, possibly near future, America without any doubt in my mind, will end up a police state... and idiotically... it will be the people like you, the very people who claim to oppose the police state, that will be instrumental in it becoming a reality.
We're tired of you people. This is going to end in authoritarianism at some point, and it will be your fault. YOU.
OBEY THE FREAKIN LAW. Solves a ton of problems.
I obey the law, Androw. I support the police. I supported the officer in Ferguson and the NYPD in the Garner case. What I didn't support was a story about a black girl who had a tazer used on her because she was standing far, far off in distance videotaping on her cell phone an arrest she felt was illegal - they didn't realize she could retrieve the info off cloud and erased the tape on her phone after accusing her of trying to hit a police officer with her car. Her car never moved. You can see what happened by the video on her phone which was made into a youtube video. I'm sure it is a rare occurance but it does happen. It has happened in Illinois, in Florida, in other states - it is happening across the nation from what I can see and in many of the states it isn't against the law to videotape with a cell phone so what exactly is the problem?
I'm probably more conservative than you are. Do not give me this we're tired of you people stuff. I'm a conservative! Wrong is wrong and you don't condone wrong because it doesn't jive with your politics. Understand?
Ok.... let's try this again... You bring up an instance of the girl who was tased after trying to hit a police officer.
So I looked up the video, and sure enough there's this chick filming police making an arrest.
If you watch the entire thing, from the start...... she's filming, and they are arresting, and nothing is happening. They know she's filming. They don't seem to have a problem. Full minute of filming. No issue what so ever.
Then, the light turns green, and this chick in her car, is just sitting there in the middle of the road blocking traffic..... so she can film.
The police officer sees this, and says very clearly.... "YOU NEED TO PULL FORWARD. THE LIGHT IS GREEN."
Dude... how hard is that?!?!? HUH?!?!? An officer of the law... said PULL FORWARD. This is not a difficult command. This is not an unreasonable command.
Just because you want to be mr. GoPro Police, with your camera phone, doesn't mean you are now above the law, and can block the entire road, stopped at a green light, with your attitude "no one can tell me a can't record!" - Idiotic Chick.
So what does she do??? She pulls towards the police instead, and hits one of them.
Here is what she should have done..... wait for it...... PULL FREAKIN FORWARD........ *THEN* park your dumb car, and walk back and record all you want.
AGAIN! You are defending the criminals. The chick should have PULLED FORWARD. If she had simply done what she was told, nothing else would have happened. Simple as that.
When you obey the police, you don't get tazed.
I don't care if you are so conservative, that Reagan would have rejected you as being too right-wing.
I am sick and tired of you people coming up with an million excuses why people should be able to ignore the orders of a police officer, and just do whatever the flip they want, and nothing should happen to them.
When officer tells me to PULL FORWARD.... I FREAKIN PULL FORWARD!!!! "Wah... I refused to do what I was told and get tazed! Oh those mean ol nasty officers thinking they have..... AUTHORITY TO ENFORCE THE LAW.... think I have to do what they say! Wah! Now I'm tazed!.
Gah... I'm so sick of this. I'm so tired of everything a cop does is wrong, and everything law breaking "park in the middle of the street with a green light, and you can't do anything because I'm recording!" is somehow good and decent and upright.
No, she should have had her face beaten in. She's lucky she only got tazed. DO WHAT YOU ARE TOLD. Try that. Respect authority. It works wonders.