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Cops Ahead: Keep Calm and Remain Silent

posted by CoolHand on Thursday September 22 2016, @07:41PM   
from the keeping-an-eye-on-big-bro dept.

"exec" writes:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/09/cops-record-themselves-allegedly-fabricating-charges-with-suspects-camera/

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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• Re:punish those that break the law (Score: 4, Insightful) by FatPhil on Thursday September 22 2016, @10:27PM

  by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Thursday September 22 2016, @10:27PM (#405312) Homepage

  > 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.
  
  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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