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Liberal_in_LA

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Thu Mar 26, 2015, 08:42 PM Mar 2015

Texas State Representative, Jason Villalba introduces bill to limit filming of cops [View all]

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

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