Police arrest man for filming raid, then shoot his dog in front of him (NSFW)

[Johnny Rockets]

Bottom line is if that guy just stood there and filmed like everyone else instead of hollering things to the cops, none of this would have happened.

[jtnc]

IT IS NOT ILLEGAL TO RECORD THE POLICE IN PUBLIC, despite what cops may think. It has been help up by the Supreme Court and protected under First Amendment. These cops were abusing their power by arresting him on bogus charges. 

 

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review a federal appeals court decision finding it unconstitutional to enforce an Illinois state law that makes it a felony to videotape police officers working in public if a microphone is turned on.

 

The law had been challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union, and a divided panel of the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed earlier this year that it “restricts far more speech than necessary to protect legitimate privacy interests" and, "as applied to the facts alleged here, it likely violates the First Amendment’s free speech and free-press guarantees,” as Judge Diane Sykes explained in the majority opinion (PDF).

 

On Monday, the nation's top court declined to hear the state's appeal, leaving the 7th Circuit ruling in force, the Chicago Tribune reports.

 

Meanwhile, a number of citizens throughout the country say they have been charged with a crime (often obstruction) while recording police on the job. A Massachusetts man is facing a wiretapping case after allegedly posting a video on YouTube that shows him instructing a female passenger how to use an electronic device to record a traffic stop by Shrewsbury police.

 

Irving Espinosa-Rodrigue, 26, is scheduled for a pretrial hearing in January, reports the Shrewsbury Daily Voice.

 

Among other accounts of such incidents recently posted on the Photography Is Not a Crime site, Daniel J. Saulmon tells PINAC that he spent several days in jail earlier this month after being arrested in Hawthorne, Calif., while filming police on a public street. He faced an obstruction case, but says the charges against him have been dropped.

 

A spokesman for the police department wasn't immediately available to respond to a Monday afternoon request for comment from the ABA Journal.

 

http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/Supreme_Court_Gives_Nod_to_Citizens_Who_Record_Police_Amidst_Reports/

 

[wesley17]

This video shows everything that happened, from the moment the black guy with the dog pulled up.

[Bronn]

Bottom line is if that guy just stood there and filmed like everyone else instead of hollering things to the cops, none of this would have happened.

 

To be fair, the only problem I had with that guy's actions were him crossing the street approaching the scene of whatever it was they were doing (looked like a raid on a dope house, I dunno though) and then not securing his dog when he put it in the car.

 

He was putting himself in danger by getting closer to the scene than he needed to, and then he put anyone else in the immediate area in danger when he didn't secure the dog.

I have no problem with him filming, hollering, or whatever else he felt justified in doing. But you don't walk up to a scene like that.

On that note, the cops also failed to secure a perimeter, so there is some fault there too as far as him being able to get that close.

[Happy Panther]

Bottom line is if that guy just stood there and filmed like everyone else instead of hollering things to the cops, none of this would have happened.

 

When did hollering at cops become illegal?

[jtnc]

This video shows everything that happened, from the moment the black guy with the dog pulled up.

HE'S OBVIOUSLY A THREAT TO THEIR POLICE WORK, LOOK AT HIM OBSERVING WHAT'S GOING ON, ON THE STREET HE LIVES ON.

[Johnny Rockets]

When did hollering at cops become illegal?

Didn't say it was

[Cary Kollins]

The guy was hollering crap at the cops about them being white, if I heard him correctly. Fwiw, I once got dragged out of a house for jokingly yelling stuff at a cop on the street.

Bottom line, don't talk poo to cops that are already in a stressful situation.

And the dog being shot is one of the saddest things I've ever seen, but the officer that shot it probably did the right thing.

[Johnny Rockets]

So basically this is some stand off situation (hostage is mentioned by people filming)  that the cops are using a mega phone to communicate and this guy pulls up blaring his music and is asked to turn it down and doesn't and repeatedly antogonizes the cops by yelling things at them while all this is going on.

 

But yeah, he was just standing there filming like everyone else but was detained for doing so for no apparent reason.  

 

Take some responsibity.... your dog is dead because you wanted to act like an ass and that is why everyone was filming you and watching you instead of the standoff because you were more entertaining.

 

[Scrumtrilescent]

JR ate his Wheaties for lunch! 

[nickzz]

What do you all expect? You let them keep doing this poo over and over again without any blowback. Force is met with force. If you all just continue to bitch about it you will continue to be abused by the clowns in their costumes.

 

wat

[KillerKat]

Dog owner knew his dog was like that. What dog owner doesn't know how their dog acts? That's why he didn't secure the dog good enough. He thought the dog would scare off the cops while he was hollering at them. So now his dog is dead because of his own actions.

[CatofWar]

wat

Die on your feet or live on your knees. Don't bitch about your knees hurting though.

[Bronn]

I also wanted to add that I didn't like the way the guy jerked the dog's leash at one point in that second video.

I see that as cruel treatment, and enforcing some sort of dominance over the dog.