Texas State Representative, Jason Villalba introduces bill to limit filming of cops

[Liberal_in_LA]

At a time when the entirety of Western civilization is focused on eliminating police corruption and ending the suffering that unlawful police departments inflict upon citizens, a Texas State Representative, Jason Villalba (R-Dallas), is ramping up his crusade against civil liberties, seeking to diminish public oversight of police action.

This month, Representative Villalba introduced a bill that would prohibit:

filming, recording, photographing, or documenting the officer within 25 feet of the officer; or
filming, recording, photographing, or documenting the officer within 100 feet of the officer while carrying a handgun
(thereby criminalizing basic rights enumerated in the first and second amendments to the US Constitution.)


Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/is-this-texas-republican-enabling-police-brutality/#5TsFcjiT0JSgXDHr.99

[Downwinder]

1. I try to stay more than 25 feet away from Cops

whenever possible. For me that is 5 paces or 10 steps.

[BillZBubb]

2. Always good advice.

[procon]

3. The SCOTUS already settled this.

In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand an appeals court decision finding it unconstitutional to enforce an Illinois state law that makes it a felony to videotape police officers working in public, since then "... it’s perfectly legal to take photos and videos of police officers everywhere in the United States."


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/13/filming-police-officers_n_5676940.html




Until Texas actually figures out how to secede from the union, they are not exempt.