A couple of guys attract the full wrath of cops by filming them, plan to sell DVD of encounters

[Liberal_in_LA]

They gave their group a name: Channel Six-Two, after the scruffy bayfront block of NE 62nd Street in Miami where all of them live. And they made a promise: to always keep their cameras on. The six hours of tape they've captured show how most officers react to a camera.

In one nighttime encounter, Hammonds films over a fence in front of his house, and a City of Miami cop notices. Torres had been pulled over while driving to a corner store called Mercy Supermarket.

"Who are you?" the cop demands.

"I own this house," Hammonds says.

"Shut it down. Shut it down!" the officer growls. When Hammonds tries to argue, the furious cop charges aggressively toward the fence.

Moss declined to comment on the incidents in the video, but said that in general Miami cops only arrest videotaping civilians if they interfere with police work.

"Some of what you see on this video is clearly attempts to incite police officers," he says.

On another night, Hammonds films at the corner store. A neighborhood officer has thrown Torres over a cop car and handcuffed him. (He was later charged with "resisting an officer without violence.")


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They're part of a simmering national fight between citizen journalists and police departments that believe subjects have no right to film them. The battle over whether cops can arrest you just for videotaping them is quickly becoming the most hotly contested corner of American civil liberties law.
the friends' clashes with police because of videotaping, is simple, Hammonds says.

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2011-01-27/news/cops-vs-cameras-filming-cops-illegal/#

[annabanana]

1. I thought there was no "expectation of privacy" if you're

out on the street? That doesn't apply to cops?

[Zywiec]

2. Very interesting. Any link? n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. oops.

[A HERETIC I AM]

5. deleted.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. link added

[Zywiec]

8. Thanks!

Cops are such hypocrites.

[FiveGoodMen]

6. Do we work for the cops or are they SUPPOSED to work for us?

[wildbilln864]

7. I love it when cops are video taped...

especially when they're caught committing crimes. :patriot:

[Ian David]

9. "Sorry, officer, I didn't videotape him shooting you. You made me turn off the camera."

It does kinda work BOTH ways.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

10. www.carlosmiller.com gets you to the current location of "Photography Is Not A Crime"

There are many more stories about that kind of behavior there.