Posted on 03/14/2017 4:57:12 PM PDT by gopno1
A North Carolina police department is conducting an internal investigation after an officer was caught on camera incorrectly telling an Uber driver that it's illegal to record a traffic stop.
Jesse Bright, a defense attorney who also works as an Uber driver, was stopped in Wilmington on Feb. 26 after he brought a customer to what officers described as a "known drug house." Bright explained he was an Uber driver and that he didn't know the passenger. But one officer could be heard on the tape telling Bright to turn off his cell phone video recorder, then threaten to take him to jail if he refused.
"For recording you? I'm sitting in my car," Bright responded, prompting the officer to call him a "jerk" for questioning which law he was violating by recording. Bright explained that he's an attorney who knows his rights. "And an Uber driver?" the officer responded skeptically. Bright then offered up his state bar ID as proof.
The officers eventually called in a K-9 unit to thoroughly search Bright's car, but nothing was found and no arrest was made. The department says the officer was clearly incorrect and that citizens are allowed to take pictures or video of a traffic stop.
Bright said he does not want either of the officers to lose their job, but wants citizens to know their rights. He said he is worried that officers are giving citizens unlawful orders that are followed because people don't know any better.
"If he’s willing to just directly lie to me and tell me this is against the law to film the police, then it worries me. You know, most people when they’re given an order by an officer they don’t know that it’s an unlawful order," he said.
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Shaking down law abiding gainfully employed Sallie citizens is more profitable, keeps the courts moving, and improves morale. Criminals are an expense and clog up the courts.
Good idea!
Thanks for that!
And the cops use the same personal recording devices I do. Less than $10 off the internet. You do need to buy a $10 micro SIM card too. Cops will deny it. But look at their shirt pocket when they are approaching or talking to you.
Tell me about your camera pen. What’s the brand, where did you get it? How much? Etc.
Please..
BIL is a cop - he’ll tell me.
He admits most cops that are newly hired are probably not to be trusted. Of course not “his dept”.
Just look up high definition camera pen. I paid $7.50 for mine. Four years ago they were about $100. The $7.50 unit is just as good as my old one that went thru the wash.
I like police. I am pro police. Police bullying tactics of honest citizens not committing crimes make me not like police. Police shooting dogs make me not like police.
A lot of people hate the police. They can’t afford to alienate honest iddle class people like us. They are too often skating on thin ice. It is stupid.
It is like they tell us, “What is the problem if you have nothing to hide.” If police are being recorded in the honest commission of their duties, what is the problem if they have nothing to hide.
This bullying is just stupid.
It’s actually the most widely adopted police interrogation method nowadays, to explicitly lie to suspects and tell them that you have all sorts of evidence against them that you don’t have.
It’s called “The Reid technique”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_technique
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