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How much should you charge for a photograph?Illinois photographer frisked after photographing smokestacks
An Illinois photographer who was being harassed for taking photos of smokestacks ended up getting frisked because he placed his hands inside his pockets.
Jason C. Romero said an Officer Garcia whirled him around, forced his hands behind his back and spread his legs before emptying Romero’s pockets, which was a huge violation of his Constitutional rights considering all he was doing was taking photos.
Garcia ended up pulling Romero’s iPhone out of his pocket, which was set to record audio, and told him that it was illegal for him to record their conversation.
That is a lie.
Romero told him he was recording the conversation for his own protection, but it turned out, the recorder was not actually turned on.
But even it had been turned on, it would not have been illegal. Police in recent years have used the illegal wiretapping law to arrest people who are recording them on audio or video, only for those cases to be thrown out of court.
The illegal wiretap charge mainly applies to phone conversations where people have an expectation of privacy.
Speaking of which, the officer ended up reading through Romero’s notes and notebooks, which he had no right to do because Romero did not give him a reasonable suspicion.
Two more officers pulled up, giving Romero the old line about how “in this day and age” anybody with a camera is considered armed and dangerous with terrorist intentions.
Via Discarted
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If you photograph any pollution, illegal dumping, or other similar activities associated with big business the cops will be all over it. They work for the elites, not us peasant class.
In this day and age police is armed and dangerous with terrorist intentions, would fit the bill also quite nicely.
Well this should equal a nice payday for Mr. Romero. Although just once, I’d like to see a victim push for charges instead of taking an out of court settlement. I’m sick of hearing department X getting off with the “admits no wrongdoing as a result…” line.
He should sue their asses off. I mean the actual police officers and the department. This shit HAS to stop.
At the very least force a requirement of the settlement to read that the LEO looses his/her certification for good. I would guess if LEO’s knew that their job is on the line instead of hiding behind a city insurance policy you’d see a lot less of shit like this happening.
I can dream right?
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Adam, the problem with pressing criminal charges is that prosecutors are very reluctant to put cops on trial even when the event is egregious enough to cause a public outcry. And even when they do come to trial it is very easy to pack the jury with cop family members to ensure that the bad cops go free.
Section 1983 is pretty much all we have to keep cops in line, and since both unions and the police agencies themselves will indemnify, that isn’t much help.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Terrorism
Funny how the vast majority of ‘terrorism’ in the United States is actually state-sanctioned.
I just don’t understand why cops can be so weird when a camera is around. They seem to mind even if they are filmed doing their jobs in an exemplary and highly professional manner.
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“I just don’t understand why cops can be so weird when a camera is around. ”
They do just fine when the cameraman
is one of their own. Take the show Cops; officers relish in the spotlight. Move the camera
to the hands of an impartial bystander, where the bad stuff (Misconduct) doesn’t get edited out and you have a whole different scenario.
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