In Illinois you can and will go to jail for photographing or filming a cop. Like those youtube videos where they film themselves getting pulled over, you cannot do that here. Has been stories in the papers about it in recent years. Cops and officials cannot be filmed without a warrant or some such crap because of our wiretapping laws.
Instances where cops have seized cameras/phones are not unheard of here.
I always wondered why there was no real public outcry about it.
I'm guessing you waste your time on Fox News and network talk radio. To real conservatives, this has been an issue for years.
My understanding, FWIW, is that when these cases get taken to federal court the laws are routinely ruled unconstitutional.
As they should be.
Which is not to say that photographers can’t be disruptive. Look at the paparazzi around celebs.
But a photographer who’s being disruptive can be arrested for the disruption, not the photographing.