OFF THE WIRE
By
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?
