New Louisiana Law Serves as a Warning to Bystanders Who Film Police: Stay Away or Face Arrest.
New Louisiana Law Serves as a Warning to Bystanders Who Film Police: Stay Away or Face Arrest.
Louisiana is the fourth state to enact a so-called police buffer law, which allows officers to order people to keep their distance. Journalists say the law will make it harder to document when police use excessive force.
5th circuit. They're teeing up for SCOTUS.
The 5th gets scolded by SCOTUS. That's not a predictor, but they aren't upheld as much as many think.
so many good cops, but what does it matter if half of ya are absolute cowards .
"But it's just a few bad apples...." /s
Like, yeah, maybe. But the expression is "one bad apple spoils the whole barrel"
The cowards are not the problem. The liars, murderers, and criminals are the problem.
The republicans in court are going to use the “but the camera is too far away to able to identify police abuse”
Which is combined with the regular "you don't know what happened before filming" is even worse.
Can't have more videos like the ones that make people angry about our out-of-control police getting out.
So I wonder who's going to build a phone with a built in range finder.
There's actually a way to do that now.
Use this filter in the BLE radar app: 00:25:DF:*
That hex sequence is used exclusively by the taser company who happens to make all of the cameras for almost all of the police.
It works fairly effectively, it spotted cops for me while I was driving past them on the freeway so I think that's probably pretty good.
They can't hide things if it is on film! Gosh derned kids! It's not like they can change their behavior, sheesh!
Jesus, arrest all of them trying to make the police more immune to laws we face
Arrest Trump then? Well he hasn't been sentenced yet so it's bound to happen.
I mean we don't need to "come up" with anything, just make that asshole face the consequences of his actions...also lock up Cannon, she's not fit to for public service.
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If you have any questions or comments about me, you can make a post to LW Support lemmy community.25 feet is about 9 steps away. Not super terrible, but as the article states, the cop is likely to decide 25 feet is how ever far he says it is.
I actually agree that there should be some distance on the books, so a cop doesn't have to worry about getting shoved or attacked or whatever while they're dealing with someone else, but 25 feet is a bit excessive.
You think there should be some distance on the books, but in point of fact the courts have already ruled in Arizona that you can't put a set distance into law, not legally. The first amendment protects gathering news, which includes watching over the government, and any restrictions on the First Amendment have to be narrowly tailored to achieve their objectives. That is why we already have laws such as interference and obstruction. If you actually do something that prevents the cops from doing their job, it's already a crime.
The other problem with the set number of feet failed laws is abuse by police. The cops will say they felt you were too close, and that gives them reasonable suspicion to detain you and possibly probable cause to arrest you. Even if video evidence later shows that you were far enough away, you already took the ride. And what happens when a cop moves toward you? If you don't back up fast enough, arrested. Even if the cop has no reason to move toward you, and it looks like entrapment, too bad. You'll have to prove your own innocence.