Confiscating Camera Phone Costs Cops $250,000
This happened because far too
many Police Officers simply do not know the law. This is just one of many cases like this. It’s been happening all over the country.
It goes without saying that anyone
whose job is to enforce the law MUST know the law to do the job. At the very least, they should know that the right
of a citizen to document the actions of their public servants is guaranteed by the
1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The Baltimore Police
Department knows it now, but they pain dearly to learn the lesson. According to The Baltimore Sun, the
Baltimore PD has agreed to a $250,000 settlement to end a lawsuit filed by
Christopher Sharp after the police confiscated his phone and deleted video he’d
recorded of Baltimore officers making an arrest.
Here is a link to that story and video: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-aclu-recording-settlement-20140312,0,5533451.story
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