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In a US federal civil rights lawsuit, a Connecticut man has shared footage to bolster his claims that police illegally confronted the pedestrian because he was filming one of them. Authorities seized Michael Picard's camera and his permitted pistol, and the officers involved then accidentally recorded themselves allegedly fabricating charges against the man.
Picard's police encounter began as he was protesting a sobriety checkpoint while lawfully carrying a handgun in a holster. The plaintiff often protests near sobriety checkpoints in the Hartford region and is known by locals and police in the area, according to court documents. "Cops Ahead: Keep Calm and Remain Silent," read the 3-foot-by-2-foot sign Picard held up to motorists ahead of the checkpoint in West Hartford last year.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by TheGratefulNet on Thursday September 22 2016, @08:13PM
(bootlicker-like typing detected)
in a modern free country that respects citizens' rights, no one should fear a police encounter if they are not doing anything wrong.
this guy did NOTHING WRONG and yet the thugs with guns conspired (not allegedly, but FACTUALLY, recorded on god damned video!) to break the law by lying and synthesizing false charges.
if we cared about balancing this unbalanced relationship between cops and humans, we would give JAIL TIME to those bad cops and after jail time, they lose all rights to enter any government or authority position. for life.
I'd go farther: make them register like sex offenders and go door to door in their neighborhoods to explain why they were let go from the force.
we'd solve this problem in 1 day if we adopted a TOUGH ON (POLICE) CRIME stance.
also, make cops liable for when they break the law, make them pay their own insurance and put the pain points back on them, personally (not their dept.) when they do wrong things.
under color of law, they can kill you and get away with it. for such significant powers should come equally harsh penalties when they break-bad, so to speak.
the fact that we continually tolerate bad cops means we are not tough on REAL crime.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 22 2016, @09:59PM
> (not allegedly, but FACTUALLY, recorded on god damned video!)
Please humor my inner autistic: it wasn't video, the camera was pointed at the sky, but it did record their conspiring on audio.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 22 2016, @10:07PM
My humor is not amused :P
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday September 22 2016, @11:51PM
Please humor my inner autistic: it wasn't video, the camera was pointed at the sky, but it did record their conspiring on audio.
So it was video.
(Score: 1) by Francis on Friday September 23 2016, @12:58AM
No, it was audio. The video didn't record anything relevant.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday September 23 2016, @04:36AM
(Score: 2) by Zz9zZ on Thursday September 22 2016, @10:09PM
Can't mod you up any higher, so you get my moral support!
~Tilting at windmills~
(Score: 4, Insightful) by FatPhil on Thursday September 22 2016, @10:27PM
This, so much this. There is way more harm caused to society by thuggish cops - in tens to even hundreds of thousands of them - than by people who send photos of their junk to the girlfriend they've been legally shagging for years.
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