Videotaping Cops News Article!

**joecon** · July 19th, 2010, 05:58 PM

This is an interesting news article about the videotaping of cops!

http://abcnews.go.com/US/TheLaw/vide...ry?id=11179076

**YosemiteSam** · July 19th, 2010, 06:12 PM

Originally Posted by joecon

This is an interesting news article about the videotaping of cops!

http://abcnews.go.com/US/TheLaw/vide...ry?id=11179076

What dickweeds!

In Palm Beach County, Fla., Greenacres resident Peter Ballance, 63, who has Asperger's syndrome and has to record conversations to help his memory, settled a civil lawsuit for $100,000 last year. In August 2005, police officers tackled and arrested Ballance for refusing to turn off his tape recorder.

You know what," said the officer, according to court documents, "I still don't want that recording device on."

"Well, it's on," Ballance replied.

"It is a third-degree felony," the cop said. "If you want to push it, you can go to jail for it."

"Well, I'm pushing it now," Ballance said.

Ballance snapped pictures of the officers. One of the cops delivered a blindside tackle. Ballance had to be treated for injuries and cardiac symptoms at a hospital on the way to the county jail. At the hospital, officers refused to let Ballance use his recorders to communicate with doctors, court papers said.

**ImminentDanger** · July 20th, 2010, 01:50 AM

"Police and governmental recording of citizens is becoming more pervasive and to say that government can record you but you can't record, it speaks volumes about the mentality of people in government," Rocah said. "It's supposed to be the other way around: They work for us; we don't work for them."

I'm certain that is a NOVEL CONCEPT to most Police Departments!!

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**MostlyHarmless** · July 20th, 2010, 02:07 AM

Originally Posted by ImminentDanger

I'm certain that is a NOVEL CONCEPT to most Police Departments!!

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Wrong. I have $10 here that say they never even heard of such a CONCEPT.

Jan

**daschnoz** · July 20th, 2010, 03:51 PM

**andrewjs18** · July 20th, 2010, 04:00 PM

police state..coming to a state near you!

**daschnoz** · July 20th, 2010, 04:01 PM

**tes151** · July 20th, 2010, 04:13 PM

Cops have no expectation of privacy while on duty in public. Film away.

**Curmudgeon** · July 20th, 2010, 04:34 PM

**brightdrrkness** · July 20th, 2010, 04:41 PM

There is 0% entitlement to privacy outside in plain view of everyone. Cop or not. These pathetic temper tantrums equate to little more than a child in school screaming, "STOP LOOKING AT ME!"