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MARKETING2DAY needs to contact his local ACLU chapter for legal assistance. The sooner the better.

Something about this guy's story just doesn't add up. I'm having a hard time believing that a cop took a swing on him without charging him with resisting arrest. I'm calling BS on that. I wouldn't have turned my camera off just because the cops told me to, but I guess some people just aren't willing to do a bid when it comes to standing up (laying down in this case) for their rights.

The Mass courts have ruled that it is OK to record police performing their public duties.
This pay link is to the Boston's Globe editorial saying the cops should get use to it.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2012/01/11/police-and-came...

It is nice to see that Mass is moving in the right direction.

Boston police department admits arresting people for recording them with a cell phone was a mistake.

The Boston Police Department has at last concluded that two of its officers made a mistake when they arrested a Boston man for recording the arrest of another man with his cell phone. In a letter to cell phone cinematographer Simon Glik, superintendent Kenneth Fong of the Boston PD's Bureau of Professional Standards said that the officers had shown "unreasonable judgment" by taking Glik into custody.

Glik's battle with the Boston PD began in 2007, when he saw another man being arrested on Boston Common. After hearing a witness say, "You are hurting him, stop," Glik pulled out his cell phone to document the encounter. The police then arrested Glik for allegedly violating the state's wiretapping statute.

As Glik now describes the event on his own website (he's a lawyer), "This arrest was a vindictive attempt by some unscrupulous cops to suppress citizens’ right to record, observe and comment on police actions."

Glik was quickly released, and the charges against him were eventually dropped. Glik requested that the Boston PD then investigate the officers' actions, but the department concluded in 2008 that the officers had done nothing wrong.

That may have inspired the Boston PD to re-open Glik's original complaint, and this time they reached a different conclusion. A department spokeswoman told the Boston Globe that the officers, John Cunniffee and Peter Savalis, now "face discipline ranging from an oral reprimand to suspension."

"As far as I knew, my complaint was summarily dismissed," Glik told the Globe regarding his original complaint in 2008. "I was basically laughed out of the building. From what I understand, it takes filing a federal lawsuit in order for internal affairs to review a complaint."

Glik's attorney, David Milton, says the fact that it took the department four years to admit its mistake "shows a lack of genuine concern for investigating misconduct by the Police Department."

Milton told the Globe that Glik plans to press forward with his lawsuit against the officers, seeking financial compensation and "a public recognition that what he was doing was perfectly legal."

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/boston-pd-admits-arrest-...

I would believe it. I saw the tv show cops that there were 2 police officers who just walked into thier house without a warrent without notice like as if it were thier house ( and this is on national tv) they started to look around in the rooms and when the victims asked them dont you have a warrent thier response was we dont need one we heard gun shots in the area. Then the cops went into thier room and started to riducule the welding machine he had saying he was not supposed to have that. That is really bad when cops come inside your own house hold and say you cant take picures of cop intruders that enter your home. Yes I think it is very possiable that it was true of what those cops did. The cops charged him for having a ileagle welding machine but later those charges was tossed out

I would believe it. I saw the tv show cops that there were 2 police officers who just walked into thier house without a warrent without notice like as if it were thier house ( and this is on national tv) they started to look around in the rooms and when the victims asked them dont you have a warrent thier response was we dont need one we heard gun shots in the area. Then the cops went into thier room and started to riducule the welding machine he had saying he was not supposed to have that. That is really bad when cops come inside your own house hold and say you cant take picures of cop intruders that enter your home. Yes I think it is very possiable that it was true of what those cops did. The cops charged him for having a ileagle welding machine but later those charges was tossed out

I don't buy it. If those cops were in his home and he was doing whatever near his computer, they would of pounced on him in the name of "officer safety". Either that or they are really bad cops. That first cop took his eyes off him way too many times. I'm not a cop defender by any means, but that just doesn't look right at all.

The Indiana Supreme court has ruled that cops don't need a warrant to enter a home. They can come in at any time for any reason, or for no reason at all, and it's illegal for citizens to try and stop them.

So what was the reason they went into his house? Was there an emergency call from that residence? Had the couple been fighting?

Phred wrote:

"The Indiana Supreme court has ruled that cops don't need a warrant to enter a home. They can come in at any time for any reason, or for no reason at all, and it's illegal for citizens to try and stop them."

Could you link the court decision that says a police officer can enter a house at any time for any or no reason? You would think that would make national news but I have never heard of it.

The police do have a right to enter a house if there is exigent to check the welfare of the involved parties. If the wife had called, then it doesn't matter if the husband wanted them there or not.