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MineralMan

(151,411 posts) Tue May 26, 2020, 11:59 AM May 2020

Smile, Officer! I have you on video. [View all]

You'd think this lesson would have been learned by now by law enforcement people. I mean everyone today is walking around with a high-definition video camera in their pocket. Maybe even a 4K camera, actually.

You can't choke a man to death anymore without being on TV these days. There ought to be a law, you know?

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Smile, Officer! I have you on video. [View all] MineralMan May 2020 OP

Sad to say this, but MissMillie May 2020 #1

I don't think so. In fact, I know of no such place. MineralMan May 2020 #3

Define "settled" Act_of_Reparation May 2020 #6

I stand corrected MissMillie May 2020 #9

Some police like to try to order people to stop recording Mariana May 2020 #5

after these videos started to be commonplace, some states tried to make it illegal Demovictory9 May 2020 #12

The ACLU will defend if they charge with nonconsensual recording laws IronLionZion May 2020 #14

I already corrected myself MissMillie May 2020 #15

K&R, any LEO who gets caught doing this shit now should have their driver license revoked cause uponit7771 May 2020 #2

Body camera videos are controlled by the law enforcement MineralMan May 2020 #4

Just think of before video Johnny2X2X May 2020 #7

The fact that they haven't "learned their lesson" goes to show that they expect the system to WhiskeyGrinder May 2020 #8

without the bystander video, they would have gotten away with it. Demovictory9 May 2020 #10

absolutely. stillcool May 2020 #11

They still get away with murder enough times IronLionZion May 2020 #13