{"id":980,"date":"2012-05-26T08:42:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T16:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coldstreams.com\/video\/?p=980"},"modified":"2012-05-26T08:42:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T16:42:31","slug":"courts-ruling-that-video-recording-police-in-public-is-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/2012\/05\/26\/courts-ruling-that-video-recording-police-in-public-is-legal\/","title":{"rendered":"Courts ruling that video recording police in public is legal"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It is hard to believe, in this YouTube age, that taking video of people in public could be a crime. But the police are serious about not wanting to be recorded \u2014 and they have been making arrests to prove it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/ideas.time.com\/2012\/05\/21\/a-new-first-amendment-right-videotaping-the-police\/?xid=gonewsedit&amp;amp;google_editors_picks=true\">Adam Cohen: Is Videotaping Police a First Amendment Right? | TIME Ideas | TIME.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston, a Court of Appeals in Chicago, and a filing by the U.S. Department of Justice are establishing that the people have a right to record police activity in public.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And I add that in a surveillance society where police agencies are video recording everyone, everywhere, all the time, it is essential that the people have a way to protect their own rights. In my city, a police officer was convicted of civil rights violations in the police department&#8217;s murder of an innocent man after suppressed security videos were made public. Ten officers up to the acting police of chief were implicated in a massive cover up and hiding of evidence. The suppressed security videos were critical pieces of evidence.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=3094b060-0a62-4d33-9ca8-8d4b6396ed1e\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is hard to believe, in this YouTube age, that taking video of people in public could be a crime. But the police are serious about not wanting to be recorded \u2014 and they have been making arrests to prove it. via Adam Cohen: Is Videotaping Police a First Amendment Right? | TIME Ideas | &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/2012\/05\/26\/courts-ruling-that-video-recording-police-in-public-is-legal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Courts ruling that video recording police in public is legal<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[169,356,449,456,501],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-first-amendment-to-the-united-states-constitution","tag-police","tag-united-states-department-of-justice","tag-video","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}