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Alabama ACLU and Newspaper Criticize Police for Arresting Citizen Journalist by Bama Camera
The Alabama police department that had a man arrested on a felony charge of jamming up their emergency lines – even though he did not make a single call – is now taking heat from the local ACLU as well as the local newspaper.
But the Wetumpka Police Department is still sticking to its guns, threatening to arrest anybody else who posts their non-emergency phone number of (334) 567-5321.
They claim that by calling that number, it somehow leads turns into a 911 call, which they claim makes it difficult to respond to actual emergencies.
But all they were doing were exercising their First Amendment right to petition for redress of grievances by complaining about how officers ripped a camera out of Keith Golden’s hands for recording the police department from public property.
First Amendment Audit (Wetumpka PD) "I don't care about your 1st Amendment Rights"
Arrest Update by Bama Camera
**UPDATE**FPS-USMS-BAM CAMERA by News Now Houston
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 14 2016, @04:09AM
What do you mean "somehow" turns into a 911 call? Routing 911 calls to an unlisted number is common practice. You should know this.
Publicizing an unlisted phone number and encouraging people to call it is exactly the same as a distributed denial of service attack. You should know this too.
Deliberately interfering with emergency services is a threat to public safety. You should know this too.
You're an asshole.