MARGARET CORNETT wrote:
I'll swear it's getting even worse here in the U.S. I have a friend who
was involved in one of those automobile "accidents" where a bunch of
people forced him into a rear-end collision so they could rip off his
insurance. Since then he installed a video system in his car-- it's the
EXACT type that many police agencies use in their patrol cars. He has
cameras front and back and sides.
He got pulled over by a cop, and as the cop was talking to him, he
warned the police officer that he was being videotaped and recorded. The
cop went ballistic, and ordered my friend to turn it off. My friend
refused. He was arrested, and his car was impounded. Seems there is a
law in his county that forbids anyone from videotaping police officers
in a manner in which the officer believes will interfere with his
What county/state is this???
actions, and anyone MUST cease videotaping a police officer when so
ordered. The case hasn't been to court yet. My guess is that my friend
will win, but it will cost him mucho in legal fees. In the meantime they
have also impounded the recordings as evidence-- not the content of the
recordings, but the recordings themselves (there's a fine legal
difference between those two things). They did it in a manner that tries
to keep him from using what's on the recordings in his defense.
It seems that the government can videotape you anytime and anywhere they
want, but the citizenry better not try it the other way around. -BC-
