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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: 2) by takyon on Tuesday June 14 2016, @07:29PM
You should check out these YouTube channels:
BamaCamera [youtube.com] (AL)
HonorYourOath [youtube.com] (FL)
NewsNowHouston [youtube.com] (TX)
TheBattousai [youtube.com] (TX)
PINAC [youtube.com]
The individuals above are typically the most polite and courteous to the police that I've found, the gold standard. These channels will also post "boring" videos where they were not bothered or had positive (short) encounters with the police. There are plenty of other channels I either haven't heard of, are more rude to the cops, or have crappier camera quality. The barrier to entry for doing a First Amendment audit is low... all you need is one camera/smartphone and one sidewalk.
It's really interesting to see blue privilege in action. Reflexive demands for ID [soylentnews.org], officers failing to give their name and badge number (not the law, but often a department policy), officers shining their flashlights at photographers to try to "blind" the footage, again often in contradiction with dept. policies, and the terrorist card/ISIS card played all the time for filming from a public sidewalk or right-of-way. Worst case scenario, you are being arrested for filming or the "crime" of failure to identify.