Friday, February 28, 2014

MARYLAND - Angry Cops To Man Filming Arrest: You Have No Rights, No Freedom Of Speech

OFF THE WIRE
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by Gina Cassini | Top Right News
Two days, two cops gone wild on a citizen filming police activity. Unlike that woman in Florida we detailed yesterday — no one got arrested or seriously hurt. But the altercation was very disturbing as police nationwide continue to harass Americans exercising their 1st Amendment rights.
A man videotaping Baltimore County police as they arrested two people was approached by at least two different officers and not only angrily threatened with arrest, but told he had no rights.
The man asked the officers several times what he was doing wrong. When he tried to remind them “I have my rights,” things quickly went downhill, with one angry cop responding: “You just lost them.”
WATCH:

The man was not arrested, but likely only because he backed down in the face of angry physically-confrontational police
Baltimore County police officials told Top Right News that they “recognize and respect” the rights of citizens to film officers on duty in a public place, unless the person filming has violated a law or statute, and that they are investigating the altercation.

Um yeah, you think?