SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
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: 1) by tractatus_techno_philosophicus on Tuesday June 14 2016, @08:16PM
You're absolutely spot-on regarding everything being too spread out. I live in Birmingham, AL, which is a city connected by interstates, so there's no way you can function here without a car. I'm not sure how many other Alabamians are on SoylentNews, but I'd love to hear from others, just to hear their opinions regarding my claims and whether or not they agree with them. Before moving here, I lived in Mobile, AL for 6 years and grew accustomed to walking everywhere there, as it's a port city and a little more in-touch with the rest of the world. Walking from place to place isn't frowned upon there. Mobile is a bad example of a typical city in Alabama though, and is definitely an anomaly. Anyway, the transition has been difficult. I had no idea people were, on-the-whole, so unfriendly and paranoid here in the middle of the state. It certainly makes me miss the laid-back attitude of people on the Gulf Coast.