Getting arrested for videoing the police

[Dreampuff]

https://www.tampabay.com/news/2021/05/05/think-twice-before-you-whip-out-your-phone-and-record-a-cop-in-florida-you-could-be-arrested/

I wanted to post this here since it mainly concerns Florida, but I also posted it under General and if that isn't allowed, please let me know.

As I said, I don't know how this is even possible since we are supposedly fair game to be photographed or videoed when we are outside of our home.

[Miguelito Loveless]

1. It happens because the police believe they are above the law

and can arrest anyone for anything they don't like. 2 fascists on a Florida appeals court are backing the police in this belief. Now, whether it survives further appeal is an open question. IN a sane world, this would not even be a question for litigation. But in the era of the Kavanaugh Court, such things are quite worrying.

[mitch96]

3. Anything that will put their gestapo tactic's in jeopardy is verboten to them.

Above the law is right... How many of these murders would have gone under the rug if there was not video...
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[Miguelito Loveless]

4. How many murders have been comitted over the decades

before camera phones?

[hlthe2b]

2. I don't know if ACLU affiliates outside of my state (CO) have this, but they have an app that allows

for you to stream directly to their servers in the event of a potential civil rights-violating police encounter and thus it can not be deleted. Given it lives on their servers, in all likelihood ACLU would defend you if police/local DAs tried to charge you for filming.

This will likely be appealed further--as it certainly should