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Robinson Meyer writes in The Atlantic that first of all, police shouldn't ask. "As a basic principle, we can't tell you to stop recording," says Delroy Burton, a 21-year veteran of DC's police force. "If you're standing across the street videotaping, and I'm in a public place, carrying out my public functions, [then] I'm subject to recording, and there's nothing legally the police officer can do to stop you from recording." What you don't have a right to do is interfere with an officer's work. ""Police officers may legitimately order citizens to cease activities that are truly interfering with legitimate law enforcement operations," according to Jay Stanley who wrote the ACLU's "Know Your Rights" guide for photographers, which lays out in plain language the legal protections that are assured people filming in public. Police officers may not confiscate or demand to view your digital photographs or video without a warrant and police may not delete your photographs or video under any circumstances.
What if an officer says you are interfering with legitimate law enforcement operations and you disagree with the officer? "If it were me, and an officer came up and said, 'You need to turn that camera off, sir,' I would strive to calmly and politely yet firmly remind the officer of my rights while continuing to record the interaction, and not turn the camera off," says Stanley. The ACLU guide also supplies the one question those stopped for taking photos or video may ask an officer: "The right question to ask is, 'am I free to go?' If the officer says no, then you are being detained, something that under the law an officer cannot do without reasonable suspicion that you have or are about to commit a crime or are in the process of doing so. Until you ask to leave, your being stopped is considered voluntary under the law and is legal."
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2015, @11:43AM
[/quote]What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them[/quote]
"Look! A Black guy without bulletholes!"
When the cop turns round to shoot him, make a run for it.
(Score: 2) by TK-421 on Thursday May 07 2015, @01:36PM
This really should go without saying, but then again it is the internet, the BEST comedy has an element of truth and damn it this is pretty true in the last 12 months.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2015, @02:04PM
Its been true for as long as there have been police in america.
What's new are video phones becoming affordable by the poorest people.
(Score: 2) by Mr Big in the Pants on Thursday May 07 2015, @08:02PM
Bollucks.
At one point in the embarrassing near past they would have been considered someone's property (namely a wealthy influential someone) and they would have hesitated for fear of reprisal.
Nowadays everyone is a McSalarySlave so they don't have to worry. Shoot one, there are more desperate for a job. The only investment you lose is in any training.
The research is quite clear. Abolishing slavery and introducing wage slavery to take its place was the smartest economic decision world governments ever made.
Oh right...humans rights and shit too...I guess...
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Friday May 08 2015, @02:42AM
The research is quite clear. Abolishing slavery and introducing wage slavery to take its place was the smartest economic decision world governments ever made.
Goodness. Horrendously cynical even if true. Alas, abolishing slavery was only the first step. From 1932-1980 the US at least made some progress towards surpassing this level. Sadly, since then the greater efforts have been to reverse things. Europe and perhaps some Asian nations have possibly taken greater steps, but with conservative and austerity factions winning power every few years most there are not much better off.
(Score: 2) by Mr Big in the Pants on Friday May 08 2015, @03:41AM
It is true.
In fact Lincoln apparently lamented about the death of the artisan and the rise of the factory worker.
https://northernsong.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/abraham-lincoln-on-freedom-wage-labour-and-slavery/ [wordpress.com]
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-resources/lincolns-grayson/ [pbs.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2015, @02:12PM
This and the other tips work better if you're not a black guy. Otherwise you may end up being the black guy with the bullet holes, or broken spine, or broken whatever else.