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Police Claim Recording of Marijuana Dispensary Raid is Illegal

posted by janrinok on Sunday August 09 2015, @03:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the sauce-for-the-goose dept.

darkfeline writes:

Police who raided a marijuana store, destroying security cameras and the DVR, harassing the store's customers, consuming edible marijuana products, and playing darts, were caught on camera. The cops claim that said recording is illegal because the cops had an expectation of privacy after destroying all of the security cameras.

I wish I could make up this stuff.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2015, @05:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2015, @05:55PM (#220337)

    Check out the Policeman's Bill of Rights. Cops have *a lot* more rights (especially when accused of a crime), than everyone else.

    http://www.policemisconduct.net/one-bill-of-rights-for-you-two-bills-of-rights-for-them/ [policemisconduct.net]

    Also, there are specific prohibitions against filming in some states, and even more states have laws regarding audio recordings involving cops.

    I would love to see a crowd sourced cop tracker. When you recognize a cop (on or off duty), (optionally )snap a photo, and upload to the tracker with the date, time, and location-- a phone app would make this convenient. Might get them to behave a bit better, if every move they make is recorded. Do the same thing for the rich parasites, and the bought and paid for politicians (I bet we would find a lot of overlap in the location data between these last two groups).

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by tathra on Sunday August 09 2015, @08:58PM

    by tathra (3367) on Sunday August 09 2015, @08:58PM (#220391)

    Also, there are specific prohibitions against filming in some states, and even more states have laws regarding audio recordings involving cops.

    which have been ruled unconstitutional [abajournal.com] and are all therefore void laws. "enforcing" a void law is better known as "kidnapping and criminal confinement".