...paid vacation coming up real soon...

Get a paid leave of absence, a lock-down on any information sharing, a police union that will go to any lengths to silence opposition, a states AG that will sit on the complaints, FOIA requests that will get misplaced, etc., etc.

The corruption runs throughout the police forces and their supposed superiors in the local/state/federal governments.

Sure, there are a few good apples, but they don't stay around for very long.

= P. I. G.

sarcasm if it is needed.

by that cop to do something like that?

On top of the destruction of her personal property and the fact that citizens have the right to film cops as far as I know.

not unless the victim turns out to be a senator or a senator's wife or something.

even still, the worst the cop is likely to face is getting fired. i wouldn't hold my breath for anything worse than a week or two with pay during the investigation followed maybe, maybe by a week without pay.

then right back to protecting and serving to prevent the bla--, er, i mean bad guys from doing things like assaulting women and taking their iphones and smashing them to pieces!

Yeah I highly doubt the pos cop will get anything out of it sadly.

But he definitely destroyed her property for no reason.

That was resisting an officer performing his official duties!



but hey... it could have been a gun (Fast forward to 3:40 in the video below)

rolling in on tanks and full military gear.

The founding fathers must be spinning in their graves.

everybody having all the guns they can eat, didn't stop the transformation.

Well the gun lobby/NRA/MIC make $$$ on all of it.

The thug cops and the people they scare to death buy from the same assholes.

The worse things get in this country, the more $$$ the gun lobby makes!

but it undermines the whole ammosexual argument about needing guns to protect us from the police state. The police state is here, and not a shot was fired by the "freedom militias".

was called upon to do the dirty work ... at the bundy ranch?

then why doesn't he/she act, instead of vicariously, sorta, wanna anotha group to do it? But, this could lead to another "gunz" discussion in GD.

It is amusing to note that we hear very little these days about gunz being necessary to stop tyranny, like a police state or a certain sneaky Kenyan Muslin socialist Manchurian candidate who was fraudulently elected Twice. No, apparently, gunz are all about personal safety now or, at the most, someday being a defense against tyranny.

And those cops are chomping at the bit for it to happen.

Sometimes I think they're trying to make us riot, just so they can come in and restore 'order.' They certainly don't seem to be learning from their mistakes, just getting more brazen.

had she not been...

"Only black lives matter" is you.

you're grasping at straws or...

maybe I got the definition of #BlackLivesMatter wrong maybe and it actually means Hispanic lives matter, Native American lives matter, Asian lives matter, White lives matter, Indian lives matter

So which is it?

Absolutely nothing about the statement "black lives matter" indicates that other lives do not also matter. If anyone meant "Only black lives matter", that's what they would say.

Who exactly is grasping at straws? Yeah, I'd say you got the definition wrong.

Of AT&T...or Verizon...or Sprint...

According to both the GRU and old KGB handbooks, destruction of equipment that threatens state secrets is OK.

What?? No!

OF COURSE Russian handbooks are relevant where the heck do you think these models of policing come from?

FBI and CIA too is long claiming to protect sources and methods in court to help not convict their criminals and to maximum prosecute whistleblowns. Big Time Ween-Ween.

Authoritarianism is a noose enclosing the neck of Democracy. Its tool is capital.

As the Warsaw pact became unglued LOTS of higly placed conservative thinking persons immigrated to the US and took up positions advising our government

I really wasn't kidding when I said this is out of the GRU and KGB manuals so much as using them as a surrogate because I don't really know the names of the eastern thinkers who trained eastern nation's homeland security forces and originated this shit.

something musical bands merchandise.

they would be charged with something like armed assault, armed robbery, and destruction of private property.

that is, if they weren't shot 87 times on the spot....

The irony of it all...guess he thought he'd solved that irritating citizen's nosy phone. I think it's going to become a trend. One sees a police car, out come the cell phones...to Serve and Protect. The cell phones, that is.

If 20 people whipped out their cellphone cams and started recording this nazi police crap quite a few will make it to the public domain

Didn't even know that was a thing lol

With a big honking decal that tells would-be assailants of any kind that the video won't go away, even if the camera does.

"...to Serve and Protect. The cell phones, that is."

That will make me smile all day!

So it's not obvious when you're filming cops, you just flip a switch or somesuch, then watch them, and the camera records whatever you're looking at. If anyone can be filming, they'll need to assume they're always on camera, even if no one is holding up a camera phone.

That would be great!

I have one and it's always with me. I can't say what it is but it's not a phone and is wearable.

Quality of the video it takes is excellent. I love it.

Is it somehow illegal wherever you are?

Not expensive and works very well.

That's a very smart idea.

If the cops won't wear them, then the citizens will.

And I seriously thank you for doing a public service to protect the rights of your fellow citizens!

when I was doing work for a company that provided cop dashboard cameras, I came up with an idea to have the camera on all the time... no reason not to really... and then when the "trigger" happened, we would save something like 30 seconds prior to the trigger and lasting until the "off" button. Basically saving that data, and discarding the rest as the camera operates.

The only drawback is that the flash device (typical bit of "memory" that records video) only allows so many "writes" (recordings) before the flash device wears out.

In police cars, numerous things can trigger the dash cam to come on (or dome cam)... turning on the emergency lights, removing a shotgun from the holder, opening the back doors, body microphone button, dash button.

For a "cap cam" or "purse cam" or google glass, a simple on/off button is probably sufficient.

It just makes cops like that look like a complete ass. This guy is one of those who should not be walking around with a weapon around the public.

They look like Blackwater mercs.

used to killing anything that moves and being rewarded for it.

Probably on a dangerous pot bust of a sixteen year old or something.

You know those violent stoners take a full goon squad with the latest military weapons to take down, right?

if he'd seen the person filming across the street he would have come after their camera as well.

Would be nice to know what was said.

My opinion only but it seems to me that the police...in this instance, might have been baited. OK, there is no excuse for the destruction but why do we not hear any of the conversation? It seems too convenient for me.
I do believe that the police, in many instances, are out of control but this one does not sit well with me.

It could have even been filmed through a window, so there may not have been sound. The woman was not interfering with the cops activity & did not appear to be taunting them, only filming them. There was no excuse for what this officer did.

but no matter what it was, the cop was wrong.

Yeah I know, its just a rhetorical question.

I'm sure.

while the rest stand behind and support the criminal cops. If the good cops were a majority, they'd be forcing out the bad ones, not the other way around.

and falsifying their reports to cover for them.

There are apps for smart phones that upload video to a cloud account in real time. If the cops grab and smash the phone, it is too late, the video is already stored in an account that only the filmer can access.

http://www.copblock.org/apps/

Would also be surprised if there was not some way to jam recordings or whatever.
The body cams and dash cams already have a way of "malfunctioning" - filming cops is not going to change any police behavior except for enhanced efforts to block or evade or destroy recording.

Perhaps recordings of police will be deemed inadmissible in court, as they obviously don't care if we see this stuff.

I hope it's not just acting in the line of duty.

But...

I can sympathize with cops not wanting a camera pointing at them as they perform their job duties. I put myself in their shoes and wouldn't want some annoying person pointing a camera at my every move all the time, most likely because I am doing what I am paid to do. Of course if it was wrongdoing, I would get upset like that idiot did in the video.

Thankfully, there were folks out there recording police. If some of the cops were corrupt and/or murderers, then this wouldn't have to be done.

Every person in america that works in a gas station or store is on camera every second they are at work except the bathroom.

Why should armed police that can take your life away in an instant get a pass on being filmed at work when a store clerk making 7.50 an hour at McDonalds flippin burgers is on camera all day, every day?

Yep. What you said.

where I work till I step out to go home. 40 hours a week, all year, every year.

I'm not armed, I'n not sanctioned by the local,state,federal government to take a persons life either.

Yet I am filmed all day long!

How in the hell do these cops think they are not subject to the same treatment that millions of american workers get everyday!?

provided they aren't "interfering" with the police ability to do their jobs. Problem is, if a killer-cop decides "his job" is murdering a citizen under false pretenses, at that point the camera pointed at the murder becomes "interfering" in the cops mind.


SALEM, Ore. (AP) - The Oregon Legislature is looking to make sure it's legal for citizens to film the police, as long as they don't interfere.

The House Judiciary Committee approved a bill Monday that says merely videotaping a police, parole or probation officer does not constitute the crime of interfering with the official's duties.

The committee's 7-2 vote sends the measure to the full House.

The American Civil Liberties Union, which supports the bill, says Oregon law isn't clear on the legality of videotaping police officers. The ACLU says people who document arrests and the use of force shouldn't be subject to arrest and prosecution for eavesdropping or interfering with law enforcement.

Kimberly McCullough, an ACLU lobbyist, pointed to the video of a white South Carolina police officer shooting Walter Scott, a black man running from the officer.

"If something like that is criminal in Oregon, then people are going to be afraid to take those kinds of videos, and we don't want that sort of speech to get chilled," McCullough said.
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Oregon-bill-would-prohibit-charges-for-filming-police-300740641.html

So its the feds, damn.

just bought a cell phone, plus damages.

Not only that, they're throwing the feds under the bus...

its not prosecuted, what do you think this is, a police state

Was it? Or was the woman interfering with the work of the officer? Let a jury decide.

prohibiting their use by the no-necked liabilities in their ranks.

this incident.

[link:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/21/us-marshal-phone-recording_n_7108840.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013|

From that huff post story: Intentionally blocking or ordering an individual to cease recording constitutes a First Amendment violation.

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cops. This is about to get very interesting. New Rule ... See police activity, grab your cell phone. Warning: do not tell them you are filming them.

I think this woman was just trying to play by the rules. She had every right to film them and she wasn't in the way from what I can see.

If workers in American can be on camera 24/7/365, so can the roid raging militarized cops who are authorized to take your life away in an instant!

violating this womans first amendment rights.

She should also contact the DOJ. Both have stood up for a citizens right to record the police.

ETA a pertinent link.

DOJ's Public Statements Provide a Road Map for Citizens to Sue in Cop Recording Case.
http://www.dmlp.org/blog/2012/dojs-public-statements-provide-road-map-citizens-sue-cop-recording-cases

So she can stand up for her rights

even for the cops too!

the third party video.

up with an organization that's already nationwide. I'm sure there are PTAs in some areas that would be helpful, perhaps. Slogan: We're watching you watch us.