Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Video tape a cop...go to jail for 16 years

Growing Number of Prosecutions for Videotaping the Police

That Anthony Graber broke the law in early March is indisputable. He
raced his Honda motorcycle down Interstate 95 in Maryland at 80 mph,
popping a wheelie, roaring past cars and swerving across traffic
lanes.

Anthony Graber was arrested for posting a video of his traffic stop on
YouTube.

But it wasn't his daredevil stunt that has the 25-year-old staff
sergeant for the Maryland Air National Guard facing the possibility of
16 years in prison. For that, he was issued a speeding ticket. It was
the video that Graber posted on YouTube one week later -- taken with
his helmet camera -- of a plainclothes state trooper cutting him off
and drawing a gun during the traffic stop near Baltimore.

In early April, state police officers raided Graber's parents' home in
Abingdon, Md. They confiscated his camera, computers and external hard
drives. Graber was indicted for allegedly violating state wiretap laws
by recording the trooper without his consent.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/TheLaw/videotaping-cops-arrest/story?id=11179076
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They can tape you, but you better not tape them.

Brought to you by the Bush Jr. neo-con militaristic complex.

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