Chris Drew was looking for trouble on Dec. 2, 2009, when he set out on Chicago’s State Street to sell art without a permit. He was not looking for the amount of trouble he found.
Drew was carrying an Olympus digital voice recorder. Police had no idea that he was recording the arrest. When you record police, prosecutors or judges in Illinois without their consent, it is a class one felony, punishable by 15 years in prison.
“We weren’t listening in on anything private. We were all public, in public," Drew said. "So by the very definition of eavesdropping, I could not imagine there was an eavesdropping law that made it illegal to listen in on a public conversation.”
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. And, there will be tragic split seconds, where a pointed cellphone will be mistaken for a pointed gun.”
Already the police are setting up an excuse to kill civilians.
They can now justify killing you because you point a cell phone at them?
again, I say: Got Police state?
What if 2:12 and 3:36 are both LEO's?
Think about that.
It seems it has become their mission.
What if 2:12 and 3:36 are both LEO's?
Think about that.
It seems it has become their mission.
March 13, 2012 5:04 PM
Well 2:12 isn't but what the heck are you talking about?
Just like us the average person, LE has to assume they are on camera 150 times a day. They need to suck it up and get over it. The rest of us has had to, so they can also.
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