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The police chief in Wilmington, North Carolina, has publicly lambasted one of his officers. The officer recently pulled over a local attorney moonlighting as an Uber driver and told the driver that he could not film the traffic stop.
"Taking photographs and videos of people that are in plain sight, including the police, is your legal right," Chief Ralph Evangelous said in a Wednesday statement published on the department's Facebook page. "As a matter of fact, we invite citizens to do so when they believe it is necessary. We believe that public videos help to protect the police as well as our citizens and provide critical information during police and citizen interaction."
The statement concluded: "A copy of this statement will be disseminated to every officer within the Wilmington Police Department."
During the February 26 traffic stop, Jesse Bright began filming Sgt. Kenneth Becker when he and other law enforcement officers approached his car. Sgt. Becker, who appeared to be wearing a VieVu body-worn camera, told Bright that a "new law" forbids citizens from filming encounters with police.
"Turn it off or I'll take you to jail," Becker said.
"For recording you?" Bright retorted. "What is the law?"
The officers were unable to cite him the "new law," as it does not exist.
Source: ArsTechnica
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 14 2017, @07:24AM (6 children)
Easy extra cash for people who don't want a second job.
Unfortunately it's enough to live off, and so people abuse the system by using it for their primary income, and then throw a wobbler when they don't get the benefits of being employees, because they've forgotten they're abusing the system by treating it as if they are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 14 2017, @08:16AM (1 child)
People being able to live is unfortunate? Interesting.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 14 2017, @10:53AM
[Jeremy Irons] You have no idea.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Tuesday March 14 2017, @12:22PM
so people abuse the system
Thats like extreme stockholm syndrome. People get that too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 14 2017, @06:34PM (2 children)
With your poor phrasing I'm left to interpret... "abuse the system" refers to Uber bypassing local taxi laws / regulations? Even if I agree with you that Uber is somehow abusing the system, I still don't see how the drivers are the ones abusing the system. That is just some level of bonkers projection, you dislike Uber (I presume) and pass the buck down to the drivers? I dislike many companies I'm forced to deal with (telecoms looking at YOU) but I do my best to not shove my frustrations on to the employee doing their job.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 14 2017, @06:48PM (1 child)
Different AC here, but I'm wondering if GP meant instead that the drivers have sort of used Uber's "hey beer money on the side gig" offer and distorted it into a replacement for an actual full time job.
I don't know if the implication is that the drivers are greedy, lazy slobs or whatever who are too lazy to get a real job or something, but I admit that it does irritate me that people would take up Uber's offer of a very much part time gig for beer money and then whinge when it doesn't turn out to be something that pays well as a day job. Personally I tend to then look around at the larger economy and ask myself what would push people into doing this.
Of course, then I look at human nature and all the drama queens I've had the displeasure of working with.
I don't know. It's a mess. Cleanse civilization with nuclear fire and maybe try again in a thousand years or so.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 14 2017, @07:33PM
Cleanse civilization with nuclear fire and maybe try again in a thousand years or so.
The timescale is more likely something like 100 million years. The coal-and-oil reserves first need to be replenished.