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Massachusetts cop arrests ‘welfare bum’ who recorded his F-bomb rant with an iPhone
It's very interesting to me that TapIn.tv, the only project I ever saw for recording phone video direct to cloud (so it can't be erased by cops), just sort of... disappeared.
Thompson said Barboza became angry when he spotted him using a cell phone to record his actions.
“He comes running up the stairs to me, looks right into the camera, and says, ‘You [expletive] welfare bum, I’m arresting you,’” Thompson said. “I actually thought it was a joke.”
Police said Thompson broke the law by attempting to conceal his own phone while secretly audio taping the officer’s conversation.
Thompson claims he did not try to hide his phone or the fact that he was videotaping the officer while sitting on his front porch reading a newspaper.
Barboza confiscated Thompson’s iPhone, and police said the video recording was erased while the device was stored in an evidence room.
Police have asked Apple Inc. to determine how the phone was reset.
“If a Fall River police officer erased that video, he’s fired and I would suspect the district attorney would take out charges,” said Police Chief Daniel Racine. “If any other individual did that, we will take out felony charges.”
Thompson denied remotely deleting the files, which can be done for lost or stolen iPhones, and said he gave police his password to retrieve the video.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/07/massachesetts-cop-arrests-welfare-bum-who-recorded-his-f-bomb-rant-with-an-iphone/
“He comes running up the stairs to me, looks right into the camera, and says, ‘You [expletive] welfare bum, I’m arresting you,’” Thompson said. “I actually thought it was a joke.”
Police said Thompson broke the law by attempting to conceal his own phone while secretly audio taping the officer’s conversation.
Thompson claims he did not try to hide his phone or the fact that he was videotaping the officer while sitting on his front porch reading a newspaper.
Barboza confiscated Thompson’s iPhone, and police said the video recording was erased while the device was stored in an evidence room.
Police have asked Apple Inc. to determine how the phone was reset.
“If a Fall River police officer erased that video, he’s fired and I would suspect the district attorney would take out charges,” said Police Chief Daniel Racine. “If any other individual did that, we will take out felony charges.”
Thompson denied remotely deleting the files, which can be done for lost or stolen iPhones, and said he gave police his password to retrieve the video.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/07/massachesetts-cop-arrests-welfare-bum-who-recorded-his-f-bomb-rant-with-an-iphone/
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