Man Videotapes cops, gets charged

[mad cow]

Andrew Henderson watched as Ramsey County sheriff's deputies frisked a bloody-faced man outside his Little Canada apartment building. Paramedics then loaded the man, a stranger to Henderson, into an ambulance.

Henderson, 28, took out his small handheld video camera and began recording. It's something he does regularly with law enforcement.

But what happened next was different. The deputy, Jacqueline Muellner, approached him and snatched the camera from his hand, Henderson said.

"We'll just take this for evidence," Muellner said. Their voices were recorded on Henderson's cellphone as they spoke, and Henderson provided a copy of the audio file to the Pioneer Press. "If I end up on YouTube, I'm gonna be upset."


http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_22333563/little-canada-man-videotaped-sheriffs-deputies-and-got


Police apparently destroying evidence.

[Lucille]

But they're crime historians (http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/130245.html)! They should have said "Thank you for the help" rather than destroy it.


I speak of course of the fundamental function of the government police. They rarely, if ever, prevent a crime, contrary to all those phony-baloney cop shows on TV. What they do is show up after the crime has occurred, take down a report, and then use the report to document that crime is out of control but would not be if only we had more and better-paid cops. They are essentially crime historians.

[tod evans]

Though shalt not document police behavior...:mad:

[satchelmcqueen]

bullshoit

[paulbot24]

This just in from Reason. It is (finally) no longer illegal to tape cops in Illinois. We are winning this battle.

http://reason.com/24-7/2013/01/09/no-longer-illegal-to-record-cops-in-illi

[Matt Collins]

Radley Balko formerly of Reason (now with HuffPo) is on the frontlines of this trend. Read some of his writings, they are awesome.

[kcchiefs6465]

This just in from Reason. It is (finally) no longer illegal to tape cops in Illinois. We are winning this battle.

A lot of peoples' lives were already ruined. Glad it's over with now. Bout damn time.