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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: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday September 22 2016, @08:23PM
And it's ironic, that the very device they were trying to keep him from recording them (doing nothing wrong at all) with will be used as evidence against them.*
If they had just left the guy alone, there wouldn't have been a problem for anyone.
*assuming they don't manage to "accidentally lose it" as usual
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"