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Brilliant! Make him eat crow Phil! Good for you flexing those muscles right back at the officer!

Have to love the professional demeanor exhibited by the officer. A professional elementary school bully, that is.

Phil shows us that they are often easy to handle when not fed the confrontation they want. XD

As a professional journalist have you ever heard of a dictionary? It's HASSLE not HASSTLE

The proper response to the bully would be to follow him away from the car asking his badge number (on tape) and to make sure to get a good shot of the license plate.

If the City Attorney has stated that the law doesn't give an officer in public any expectation of privacy and allows for citizens to video tape their public actions, and the Police Chief states he will continue to instruct his officers to intimidate these same citizens - Why is the Police Chief allowed to stay in office? Is he not in clear violation of the law and perpetuating intimidation and harassment of the very people that pay his salary and placed him in his position?

Does the City Attorney have the authority to charge the Chief with these crimes and/or request that he resign or be fired?

The more likely outcome is that the citizen winds up pulled over, searched after a K-9 "signals" or some other suspicion, and is found in possession of a felony quantity of drugs.

Seems like this guy filming may be the only thing that kept that dog from getting gunned down.

FYI Oregon happens to also be a SINGLE PARTY CONSENT state, which means that as long as a single member of the party knows that it is being recorded, there is no obligation to inform the other parties of such recording.

http://www.rcfp.org/taping/states/oregon.html

Also, recent court decisions set precedent that any public official in the public performance of his duties has ZERO expectation of privacy, and this decision specifically relates to recording of officers on the job, but was broadened by the language to include ALL public officials performing their jobs in view of the public.

People who know their rights make Police look foolish.
I think it should be illegal to know your rights.

Writing down a license plate is a clear demonstration of intimidation?

Armchair quarterbacks. The officer was correct, but of course none of you know how to check for yourselves and assume the dolt holding the camera knows what he's talking about.

Try looking up Oregon Revised Statute:
165.540 Obtaining contents of communications.
C. is the part the cameraman might want to have a gander sometime. Oddly enough I talked to the officer involved and the young men were arrested on drug charges.

" 165.540 Obtaining contents of communications. (1) Except as otherwise provided in ORS 133.724 or 133.726 or subsections (2) to (7) of this section, a person may not:

(a) Obtain or attempt to obtain the whole or any part of a telecommunication or a radio communication to which the person is not a participant, by means of any device, contrivance, machine or apparatus, whether electrical, mechanical, manual or otherwise, unless consent is given by at least one participant.

(b) Tamper with the wires, connections, boxes, fuses, circuits, lines or any other equipment or facilities of a telecommunication or radio communication company over which messages are transmitted, with the intent to obtain unlawfully the contents of a telecommunication or radio communication to which the person is not a participant.

(c) Obtain or attempt to obtain the whole or any part of a conversation by means of any device, contrivance, machine or apparatus, whether electrical, mechanical, manual or otherwise, if not all participants in the conversation are specifically informed that their conversation is being obtained."

Thank you Phil, that should decisively shut these cops and cop sympathizers up.

"By the way officer, that's not my car." -- would have been hilarious.