Your First Amendment Rights Can Be Terminated!

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'First Amendment rights can be terminated': When cops, cameras don't mix

The video is chilling, but it's also a sign of the times.

"Your First Amendment rights can be terminated," yells the Chicago police officer, caught on video right before arresting two journalists outside a Chicago hospital. One, an NBC News photographer, was led away in handcuffs essentially for taking pictures in a public place. He was released only minutes later, but the damage was done. Chicago cops suffered an embarrassing "caught on tape" moment, and civil rights experts who say cops are unfairly cracking down on citizens with cameras had their iconic moment.

Tales of reporters, protestors and citizen journalists being threatened or arrested for filming law enforcement officials during disputes are on the rise, critics say, with Occupy Wall Street protests a lightning rod for these incidents. The National Press Photographers Association claims it has documented 70 such arrests since September and, in May, called on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to focus attention on the issue.

 

Good thing i dont go out much

 

"The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder."
Richard J. Daley

 

Maybe it is good I live in UK? Maybe not?

 

You guy are already toast... No offence.

 

I dont either.... I HAVE NO DESIRE TO GO OUT....... I HATE WHATS BECOME OF THINGS.......

 

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Good article. Thanks for sharing.

 

first amendment rights only existed when it was convenient; today it's very obvious that you can;t say how you feel or you can be socially stigmatized by those brainwashed by the epigenetic construct we call culture. wish we really had freedom of religion that wasn't abridged...

 

I feel like dancing over dead pigs.. I dont eat pork tho..