If You See Something, Film Something (You Have The Right To Film The Police)
Posted by admin on February 5th, 2012
2011 could have been named the year of the cell phone camera. Individuals everywhere have used their cell phones or other electronic devices to record interactions with the police. Some States have taken offense to that and have allowed police officers to arrest people for documenting events in public. In 2011, the First Circuit Court of Appeals out of Massachusetts ruled in favor of citizens first amendment rights to record in public. The Court has jurisdiction over MA, NH, RI, ME, and Puerto Rico. Here’s the ruling: www.ca1.uscourts.gov *** Some excerpts: “[I]s there a constitutionally protected right to videotape police carrying out their duties in public? Basic First Amendment principles, along with case law from this and other circuits, answer that question unambiguously in the affirmative.” “Glik filmed the defendant police officers in the Boston Common, the oldest city park in the United States and the apotheosis of a public forum. In such traditional public spaces, the rights of the state to limit the exercise of First Amendment activity are ‘sharply circumscribed.’” “[A] citizen’s right to film government officials, including law enforcement officers, in the discharge of their duties in a public space is a basic, vital, and well-established liberty safeguarded by the First Amendment.” “Gathering information about government officials in a form that can readily be disseminated to others serves a cardinal First Amendment interest in protecting and promoting ‘the …
February 5th, 2012 at 1:09 am
god I’ve got to stop watching these videos… Seeing what americans with badges will do to others make me want top revolt… I’ve got my guns, I’ve got my ammo… All I need is the lack of hope… and that’s coming quick
February 5th, 2012 at 1:09 am
@tittiger – so you’re saying that if New York, or California, or New Hampshire wanted to ban free speech, they could? If those states wanted to disarm their populations, they could? If they wanted to execute people without due process, they could? If so, then what is stopping them?
February 5th, 2012 at 1:09 am
@tittiger – right, my understanding though is that changed with the passage of the 14th amendment and Supreme Court rulings during the late 1800s.
February 5th, 2012 at 1:09 am
@sober502 You as most Americans seem to have no understanding of what the Constitution is if understand your comment as you believing that the Constitution applies to the States.
February 5th, 2012 at 1:09 am
@tittiger – 14th amendment…. No state would be allowed to abridge the “privileges and immunities” of citizens.
February 5th, 2012 at 1:09 am
Quit twisting and torturing the Constitution please!
Doesn’t matter if it is a 1st amendment right. The 1st only applies to laws that the Feds make.
Nothing to do with the states.
It does not give us any right or rights.
HOWEVER the right to film our employees in public is a God given inalienable right!!
February 5th, 2012 at 1:09 am
@partykid1220 Look up – “Miami Beach Memorial Day Shooting May 30th 2011, cellphone video”
February 5th, 2012 at 1:09 am
where was the opening video shot? Which situation was this? I can’t find it online.. it’s the opening video where the police are shooting at the car.
February 5th, 2012 at 1:09 am
shame SOPA or similar laws will censor all this.
February 5th, 2012 at 1:09 am
@biorgymd – It absolutely is, in my opinion, the best quote for our generation
February 5th, 2012 at 1:09 am
a fellow youtuber favorite’d this video, but it is a fantastic video everyone needs to be press these days! everyone needs to at least LIKE this video EVERYONE!!!
February 5th, 2012 at 1:09 am
LIKE AND FAVORITE THIS SHIT!
February 5th, 2012 at 1:09 am
@hydrokyle1 I don’t know who Joey is.. but you’re welcome! Thanks for watching! Please share!!!
February 5th, 2012 at 1:09 am
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February 5th, 2012 at 1:09 am
extremely motivating and at the same time terrifying! some of those videos i have never seen and make my heart drop, thank you for the post joey and keep recording
February 5th, 2012 at 1:09 am
@shnugz786 – I would hope so considering the UK is a surveillance state with cameras everywhere. I would do some research though because I can’t tell you for sure. Sadly the only way any law against recording will get overturned is for people to get arrested and sue in court.. repeatedly.
February 5th, 2012 at 1:09 am
i know i can probably just search this up on the net but still wana ask although i think i know the answer..is it legal to record in the UK-specificly England
February 5th, 2012 at 1:09 am
@oldjonesy check out the full length vid
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February 5th, 2012 at 1:09 am
What happened in that last scene? Did the cops just give up trying to get the journalist to leave?
February 5th, 2012 at 1:09 am
“Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience…therefore individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring”
– Nuremberg War Crime Tribunal, 1950
I love it!!!!