In recent years an unsettling pattern in law enforcement interactions has emerged. American citizens, innocent of a crime, filming a public servant performing their duties in public, have been targeted and had their constitutionally protected rights destroyed.
The cases continue to pile up, some more disturbing and egregious than others. One of the most shocking examples is the case of the Las Vegas man, Mitchell Crooks, who was brutally assaulted by an on-duty police officer for filming the officer from his own property.
There is video of the event and while you cannot see the beating, the sound and pictures of Crooks after the fact are unsettling enough. This represents one aspect of this disturbing trend: some of these innocent people film the police from their own property.
In another instance of individuals being arrested on their property, a young woman named Emily Good was forcibly removed from her property and arrested for filming Rochester, NY police performing a routine traffic stop.
NOTE: If they have "nothing to hide" wouldn't they like having it recorded on film?
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