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Florida Trooper Slaps Camera, Tells Man it’s Illegal to Video Record her
www.photographyisnotacrime.com ^ | 03/19/2013 | By Carlos Miller

Posted on 04/14/2013 9:34:06 AM PDT by redreno

It’s gotten to the point where the Florida Highway Patrol in Jacksonville have been accustomed to Jeff Gray video recording them, which is why most don’t bother him when he does.

But all it takes is one ignorant cop to make them all look bad.

At least in this case, the other cop whom she called for back-up didn’t join her in violating Gray’s Constitutional rights.

So in this case, she is left on her own looking like a bully with a badge after slapping Gray’s camera. That’s assault, after all.

Her name is Thompson and she doesn’t appear to be a rookie. In fact, the stripes on her arm indicate she is a sergeant.

But still, she was stupid enough to say the following:

“By law, you can’t videotape me if I don’t give you permission to.”

She beckoned for back-up where a male police officer apparently informed her that Gray was within his legal rights to record her, so she stepped back inside her patrol car and drove off without saying another word.

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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Unless the drug couriers fly completely different airlines from me, when you exit is entirely dependent on where you sit.


41 posted on 04/14/2013 12:46:11 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: redreno

I’m 71, not as fast as I used to be. I walk a lot to keep the knees from doing the “tin man freeze”. I have a walking stick and few pay attempting to me as I sit on a bench near a 4 way stop and vid people blowing the STOP sign. If people notice, they see an old guy sitting on a bench...few realize my hi tech GoPro Hero 3 is what is mounted on the end of my walking stick. And with the stick leaning against the bench, out of my reach, who would guess its internal WiFi is being activated by a tiny remote in my hand? Got about 30 of them blowing the stop signs, and yesterday, a jewel, our community security vehicle blowing the stop sign....the same guy that hands out the tickets to people who blow the stop signs. About 20 more and up to YouTube it goes...did I say I was 71. Hmmm old guy, but one who is having a ball with the technology.


42 posted on 04/14/2013 12:46:20 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( EVERY DIME Obama Spends is given to him by the Republicans in the House.)
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To: AlaskaErik

She shouldn’t have touched the camera. The only thing she did correctly was stop and investigate a suspicious person. Oh two things right; she went on her merry way without digging her hole deeper.


43 posted on 04/14/2013 1:08:26 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: wonkowasright

Yeah its horrible for our public servants to be scrutinized.


44 posted on 04/14/2013 1:11:27 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: RandallFlagg

“Seat belt enforcement is a revenue generator. Nothing to do with safety.”

As are all ‘traffic citations’.


45 posted on 04/14/2013 1:23:31 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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To: truth_seeker

“cops”

I know that it is more difficult to say but I prefer the phrase, “Big Brother’s Thugs’ or ‘BBT’s’.


46 posted on 04/14/2013 1:34:44 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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To: Spartan302
...what reasons to pull you over now?

Improper lane change. And, if you dispute it, Disorderly Conduct and off to jail you go, and your car goes to an impound lot for $100+ per night.

47 posted on 04/14/2013 1:45:15 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

GoPro Hero 3 doesn’t look very easy to camouflage.


48 posted on 04/14/2013 1:50:51 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: redreno

Wow. The sergeant is black. What a shock this is. (And I don’t care of the photographer is a DUmmie). I like what he’s doing...making movies of police driving without seat belts. As an aside, their window tinting is dark enough to get a civilian a ticket in AZ, where the sun shines brightly.


49 posted on 04/14/2013 1:58:26 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: AlaskaErik
That aside, she obviously did not know the law in regards to video recording in public spaces.

Teaching the ignorant, one JBT at a time.

50 posted on 04/14/2013 1:59:59 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

“She” was smash mouthing the law. Her lips were flapping a mile a minute and I was waiting for her to wag her head and start cussing. Big ego, small brian. A whole lot of dyke goin’ on there. : )

I noticed the camera guy called it “sir.” LOL Simple things are terribly confusing these days in the land of liberal insanity.


51 posted on 04/14/2013 5:39:15 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: SaraJohnson

The camera guy was probably aware of her sex and gender and decided the gender should take priority over her sex while laughing inside.


52 posted on 04/14/2013 5:41:35 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, IÂ’m a conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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To: wonkowasright

He must crave being scrutinized...


By stupid dykes with a big egos stuffed in a police uniform talking unprofessional smash mouth to citizens. How shameful for that police force. It’s boss did not look pleased. I bet he has to put up with a lot of insane crap from that freak.


53 posted on 04/14/2013 6:05:00 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Progov
If I were a cop and I had to get out of that car a quickly as possible I too, would NOT be wearing a seat belt. With all the pouches, magazines, radio, gun and other trappings hooked on me, the last thing I need is any of it caught on the seat belt, thereby restricting me to the car.

Try an IBA with its integrated pouches and your M-4 in Iraqganastan where, yes, you still have to wear a seat-belt in your humvee.
Sorry, but I disagree; if we make soldiers buckle up in active combat zones, then the police should not be afforded any leniency in the matter.

54 posted on 04/14/2013 6:10:53 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Progov

Da Ho will get away with it. Count on it.

As to cops and seatbelts, in Texas the Highway Patrol seems to always use them, but then again they don’t try to equip up like some damn hardware store.


55 posted on 04/14/2013 8:58:17 PM PDT by X-spurt (Republic of Texas, Come and Take It!)
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To: Cyber Liberty

No need ro camo it, it is off by itself , people don’t even notice it.


56 posted on 04/15/2013 4:22:13 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( EVERY DIME Obama Spends is given to him by the Republicans in the House.)
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