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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: 3, Insightful) by NotSanguine on Tuesday March 14 2017, @09:15AM (3 children)
It is, really. All it does is makes it harder to read. Sometimes also making things ambigous (windows/Windows). Might be nice if you want some click-bait, I guess. Stop brining (half-dead) printing industry practices to Internet.
I'm hoping against hope that you're not an American. But I'm not very sanguine about that (see what I did there?).
All you've done is proclaim to the world that you are poorly educated and have poor command of English language usage.
I'm not sure what a process to make poultry moist has to do with this discussion, but I'm sure you'll explain it to me in great detail, won't you?
I'm not going to post a bunch of links to show you just how misguided you are, but I recommend that you gather information and improve your understanding of English usage. It will stand you in good stead in other areas.
Given that you obviously didn't receive a quality education, I feel pity for you, as that isn't fair.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by schad on Tuesday March 14 2017, @01:14PM (1 child)
Foods other than poultry -- I assume you are really thinking of turkey here -- can be brined too. It's much easier to use a so-called dry brine, which simply means putting salt on the food some time in advance of cooking it. Uses far less salt, too. In fact, because supermarket turkeys are injected with salt at the factory, you usually don't want to brine turkey.
I don't know what brining has to do with the discussion either, but I find it more interesting than a debate on title case in story headlines. So I approve of your asinine nitpicking over a typo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 14 2017, @03:21PM
Why, back home Muh Mamma used to brine just about everything. Thinks I'll go soaks muh feets in some brine right now.
(Score: 3, Disagree) by wonkey_monkey on Tuesday March 14 2017, @06:33PM
I'm hoping against hope that you're not an American.
He might be dyslexic for all you know, or have a faulty keyboard, or be using his phone during a bumpy car ride. It has nothing to do with his point.
There was really no need to be such a dick about it.
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