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Cops Ahead: Keep Calm and Remain Silent

posted by CoolHand on Thursday September 22 2016, @07:41PM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 2) by JeanCroix on Friday September 23 2016, @04:51PM

    by JeanCroix (573) on Friday September 23 2016, @04:51PM (#405609)
    When I lived in CT, the checkpoints were deemed constitutional because they were publicly announced in advance. There was a small section in the local paper that listed when and where the checkpoints would occur. I still don't think that's in the spirit of the 4th amendment, but that's the workaround they used.
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  • (Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Friday September 23 2016, @08:06PM

    by Anal Pumpernickel (776) on Friday September 23 2016, @08:06PM (#405696)

    If the announce that they're going to violate your forth amendment rights in advance, it's fine. Using that logic, they could suspend the Constitution rights of everyone living in a particular city, as long as they give advance notice. If you continue to live in said city, you are implicitly consenting to having your rights violated.