Man Might Face 75 Years is Prison for Videotaping Police

[avebury]

Police officers should not be above the law. If a police officer does something illegal you should be able to video the crime.

[ZombieHorde]

1. Disturbing. nt

[Douglas Carpenter]

2. this is a story that really should go viral - this is an outrageous human rights abuse

[BainsBane]

3. Is the ACLU on this?

I don't think such punishment is constitutional.

[meow2u3]

4. Isn't this law unconstitutional?

This unjust, unconstitutional law should be challenged in court if it doesn't get overturned via legislation.

Free speech rights violated? Check. Cruel and unusual punishment? Check. Unreasonable seizures? Check. Self-incrimination? Check.

This is what's called tyranny, not what the teabaggers call it.

[Logical]

5. These laws are idiotic. Based on the laws of secretly recording someone. The prosecutors are.....

scared of pissing off the cops so charge citizens.

The police and legal system in this country has become a joke.

[Logical]

6. Isn't this a real old story? Here is a link saying the charges were dismissed.....

http://www.theagitator.com/2011/09/17/illinois-judge-dismisses-charges-against-michael-allison/

Maybe update your post.

[burnodo]

10. The charges against the police were dropped?

nt

[marble falls]

11. The video also says the charges were dropped and the guy was elected as a representive...

to the legislature where he intends to change this law. Did you watch the video????

[Logical]

12. Where in the video does it say that? The end of the video says "Alison has a pre-trial hearing...

tomorrow morning"

Point me to the time in the video where it says charges are dropped against Alison.

[struggle4progress]

16. Crawford county appealed the 2011 dismissal. The appeal may still be pending

before the Illinois Supreme Court. On the other hand, the US Supreme Court refused to hear a similar Illinois prosecutor's appeal in late 2012, so I'd guess the case is really dead

[msongs]

7. so will the freedoms loving democratic party take a stand against this sort of thing? nt

[KinMd]

8. My father and one of my brothers were police officers

..and a law against video taping them is absurd. Unless it can be shown the person taping was actively interfering with them or inciting a crowd, i cant see how this is constitutional

[indepat]

9. If only our Constitution prohibited cruel and unusual punishment. If only

there were equal justice under the law. If only life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness could not be deprived in the absence of equal justice being adjudicated under the law.

[sulphurdunn]

13. As distrubing

is the hearing that the cop who summarily executed a kid in the subway got two years. Jesus.

[midnight]

14. Oddly enough there are people out their that will tell this guy he shouldn't be filming.... Let's

hope it isn't his attorney...

[Naijabizcom]

15. I remember 'Animal farm'

It all shows that Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely

[SharonAnn]

19. That quote is from Lord Acton when he was fighting against the "Doctrine of Infallibilty"

when it was being developed in the Catholic Church.

"Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely".

[SpartanDem]

17. WTF is with all the old news postings lately?. Check the dates on these things

the charges were dropped in 2011. The laws was declared unconstitutional in 2012

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-supreme-court-rejects-plea-to-prohibit-taping-of-police-20121126,0,686331.story

[Logical]

18. +1000, weird stuff going on. n-t

[Boudica the Lyoness]

20. This is so wrong on many levels.

I keep thinking about the implications for news crews. Aren't you allowed to have your attorney present when being questioned by the police. So why can't you have your camera on and present?

[Boudica the Lyoness]

21. Here's a new video of a man getting killed by the police....

I just found this. I wonder if the woman who video taped his murder will go to jail for life. And how about the news station that aired it? Will they get in trouble?

Thank goodness for cell phones and cameras. Someone has to watch these bastards.

Warning Graphic police brutality.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2330742/The-horrific-moment-female-police-officer-beats-suspect-baton-10-times-dies-hours-later.html

[Ron Obvious]

22. Remember those stories you used to hear about the USSR?

Remember the stories you used to hear about the unlucky tourist in the USSR who, while taking pictures, accidentally took a picture of something he shouldn't have, like a strategic railway line or something like that? The story always ended with the poor guy arrested on the spot and put in prison.

I don't even know if these stories were true, but the moral of the story was always about how evil police states were compared to how free we were in the west.

In just a few years we have become the country that foreigners can legitimately tell stories like that about, in order to frighten their children from visiting.

Unreal.