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To: Scoutmaster
Not to hijack this thread or anything but it's quite common for cops to threaten video-ers with arrest.

I would like to hear someone ask, "What are you going to charge me with?"

20 posted on 11/16/2014 9:13:23 AM PST by Texas Eagle
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To: Texas Eagle
I would like to hear someone ask, "What are you going to charge me with?"

They would answer in a heartbeat. "Interfering", or "Obstructing", or "Disobeying an Order", or "Disturbing the Peace". They have them all at the tips of their tongue, and have used them all against peaceful citizens documenting their conduct. They are in big trouble now that it has been found legal to videotape them, and that you have the ability to upload directly to the internet. They can't destroy the evidence any more, which they used to do routinely.

If Wilson did bring a guy in just for videotaping him, he is one of those kind of a-hole cops who likes to do what he wants without anyone documenting it. That doesn't have anything to do with what went down with good ol' Michael Brown.

40 posted on 11/16/2014 9:43:28 AM PST by Defiant (GOP needs to be the party of no to socialism, yes to freedom.)
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To: Texas Eagle
I would like to hear someone ask, "What are you going to charge me with?"

They usually fall back on the good ol' "interfering with a police investigation". And if the actually do arrest them they can add "resisting arrest".

115 posted on 11/16/2014 12:00:02 PM PST by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
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To: Texas Eagle
I would like to hear someone ask, "What are you going to charge me with?"

And that question was answered in the story: failure to comply with the order of a police officer. Now stop and think about that. Police can arrest you for failing to follow their orders regardless of whether you are committing a crime or not. There is something fundamentally wrong with that.

117 posted on 11/16/2014 12:03:45 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Texas Eagle
What are you going to charge me with?

I know, I know! Ending a sentence with a preposition.

130 posted on 11/16/2014 12:28:26 PM PST by ASA Vet (Don't assume Shahanshah Obama will allow another election.)
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