Why was she *filming* the traffic stop?
Sounds to me like she was hoping to film some “police brutality”. She had no other reason to film the incident, and in so doing, she was harassing the police officer.
She was not merely watching from her porch, she was trying to create an “incident”.
I don’t think she is an innocent victim at all.
And in an area where police had previously been struck by rocks and bottles thrown at them by bystanders during arrests.
Why do people *own* guns?
Why do people *publish* newspapers?
It should always be legal to video or audio record public officials in the performance of their public duties.
Police have no expectation of “privacy” while operating in public. To claim otherwise is to descend into a Putin like police state.
Wow.
“Sounds to me like she was hoping to film some “police brutality”. She had no other reason to film the incident, and in so doing, she was harassing the police officer.”
And if there was no police brutality, the cops had nothing to fear from this old woman. Small wonder they were afraid to let a jury try this case.
Filming a legal arrest is harassment?
What about watching an arrest, is that harassment, too?
Listening...is that harassment?
It seems to me like you want an America like the KGB in Russia, where cops do everything under a veil of secrecy, and watching, listening to, talking about and maybe even thinking about the cops in a wrong way...is illegal, and constitutes harassment.
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