And you don’t understand the law.
Posted on 06/04/2012 5:57:33 PM PDT by dontreadthis
Now the Chicago police department is following Obama’s example and telling people that their First Amendment rights can be terminated anytime. Check out the incident caught on camera when a couple of news reporters were trying to cover a story outside a Chicago hospital.
Following the threat, the officer arrested the two journalists. Even though they were released a short time later, the incident has not gone unnoticed. According to the National Press Photographers Association, there have been 70 such arrests that they have documented since last September. Many of the arrests have involved the filming of news stories when the police decide they don’t want to allow it to be filmed. They seem to just arbitrarily decide on their own when it is legal and when it isn’t.
Meet you at the next OWS protest, sucker.
Tee, hee, hee!
I was going to suggest donuts....nice, big, fat, juicy, Jelly Donuts, a cops best friend.
You didn’t watch the video, either. Ignorance is bliss.
Two fine examples of government sanctioned control freaks and cops wonder why the American people have no respect for them anymore.
Cop vs. Cop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NghwK2gEWMU&feature=related
Ok, I get it . . . cops screw things up, badly. Just not in this case, ok? Give it a rest.
And you don’t understand the law.
A journalist can be anywhere any other citizen can be. His or her status as a journalist does not give him or her any rights to be anywhere other members of the public cannot be, nor can the State deny him or her to be anywhere the public can be.
Once their right to be in a certain place has been established, as I believe it was in this case, they can observe, record, photograph, report on, etc. anything they can see from that place, but they can't create a hazard, block the sidewalk, etc.
There are certain exceptions under civil law. For example, sitting in the window of a tall building does not give the media the right to use a 100x lens to obtain and then publish (publish is the operative word here) video of a couple in their bedroom a mile away. It becomes an expectation of privacy issue. That is, however a civil matter.
I was once arrested by local police in Massachusetts as we stood on in a public park and videoed a car accident where the driver of one of the cars was a drunk cop.
When I send the city's legal office an information copy of suit I was ready to file for myself, the videographer, the audio girl and the field producer, the stupid arresting cop, (friend of the drunk driving cop,) got a month's suspension.
He then was fired 18 moths later for being drunk on duty.
PS, ignore rudeboy. He's just a troll here to break everyone's chops. I have him zotblocked on my FR.
Welcome to the USSA, comrades.
High caliber post, per usual.
You didn’t watch the video, either. Join the clown parade.
PS, ignore rudeboy. He's just a troll here to break everyone's chops. I have him zotblocked on my FR.
You can always detect deceit when questions are clearly evaded. See tagline.
Take care.
Eff you and the horse you rode in under. Civilians don’t take orders.
Unless you are standing in the eff-ing median. Take the damn order, and move to the sidewalk.
"Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit AND OBAMA" ?
No. Prove they were committing a real crime or piss off.
Note: Real Crime. Perpetrator. Victim. Actual damage done. Absent all three, all you are doing is being an asshole with a gun.
That looks like the TSA wing of the Chicago PD. Of course the entire Chicago PD could mimic TSA. Same demeanor. Same power trip. Same ignorance. Same arrogance. Same inability to express a simple thought to a person asking about their legal rights.
Just how many LEO organizations in the USA are their like htis, stocked 100% from affirmative action screwballs that couldn’t compete for a job at McDonalds?
Thanx, PS. Am ordering one of your books. It looks great... and anyone who can be long time with that blonde in your photos has to be a great man, anyway!
:)
You don’t have the “right” to stand in the median of a street. Sorry that you don’t see it that way, but maybe you are not from a big city, either.
Yep, since 1980 we’ve been a team. Meeting her was my winning megamillions lottery ticket, found by chance.
Is there a troll on this thread? Boot lickers like it when they get kicked around a little. They have that masochistic streak. Don’t give them the pleasure, is my take.
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