[DJ MacWoW]

I believe that filming is okay and sometimes necessary as long as everything is filmed. The drawback is starting filming after an idiot decides to go toe to toe with an officer.

[ansel12]

The drawback is starting filming after an idiot decides to go toe to toe with an officer.

If you mean what some posters often say, that "we don't know what made the cops angry before the video started", then that is no point at all.

When cops get busted for homicide or beating a man into the hospital or even to death without having to, or framing someone, then it really doesn't matter what annoyed them and led to their criminal act.

[JRandomFreeper]

Public employees pick and choose what they record and show.

Nope. Public employees (police) need to be held to the same standard and that needs to be more freedom, not less.

/johnny

[Shimmer1]

There will be instances where everything is not filmed. That should not have any bearing on whether filming a cop is legal. It needs to stay legal, or that’s yet ANOTHER step toward our freedoms thrown out the window. We don’t need any more of those steps!