Apr 8 - MD Motorcycle Speeder Charged For Posting Traffic Stop Video

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By govt slaves - 04-08-2010, 10:09 PM - BX Daily Bugle - news and headlines
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(By Kelly McPherson)Video of a traffic stop in Maryland is now spreading across the popular web site YouTube.
It’s a video that’s landed one man in serious trouble with the law. As Kelly McPhersonreports, police are now going after the man with the camera. It was a highway confrontation caught on camera. “Get off the motorcycle, get off the motorcycle. Get off the motorcycle, state police,” yelled the officer involved. The video is causing a stir online but also with state police and now the Harford County state’s attorney. Fitted with a helmet camera, Anthony Graber was recording his ride when an unmarked trooper car pulled him over for speeding. YouTube - Motorcycle traffic violation - Cop pulls out gun YouTube - Motorcycle traffic violation - Cop pulls out gun
“I was afraid. I thought the person, at the time I didn’t know it was an officer, was going to shoot me,” said Graber. The father of two and Air National Guardsman could go to prison for recording the audio of the traffic stop ultimately because he posted it on YouTube. “I posted it on YouTube because my mom was worried about the legality of it, and she was upset that a police officer pulled a firearm on me because I’m not a criminal,” said Graber.
“When that plain clothed trooper witnessed this, initially he got out of his car, he held that gun at his side, momentarily when he saw the situation was under control he quickly put it away. He never pointed it at the individual. We think he acted appropriately,” said Greg Shipley, Maryland State Police. State police saw the video online, reopened the investigation an turned Graber’s traffic ticket into reckless and negligent driving charges. “Anybody driving over 100 miles per hour on one wheel up Interstate 95 ought to expect to be pulled over,” said Shipley. Maryland is a two-party consent state. That means you can’t record somebody without telling them. It’s a felony to break that law. That’s exactly what state police told the motorcyclist when they came to his house more than a month after he’d been pulled over. “I don’t want to go to jail. I haven’t really done anything wrong. It wasn’t a violent crime. No one was injured. No one was hurt,” said Graber. That ultimately is to be decided by a judge.