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Americans have First Amendment right to film police, US appeals court rules

thefreethoughtproject.com

May 29, 2014

A federal appeals court has ruled that Americans have the right to videotape police officers in public, thereby allowing a court case brought against New Hampshire police to progress.

Carla Gericke was arrested in 2010 for videotaping members of the Weare Police Department who pulled over her friend during a traffic stop. Her video camera malfunctioned, however, and she failed to record evidence of the incident. Nevertheless, Gericke was arrested for disobeying a police officer, obstructing a government official, and "unlawful interception of oral communications," the court said. Concerning her failed efforts to record the incident, the court noted that the malfunction was irrelevant: "We agree that Gericke's First Amendment right does not depend on whether her attempt to videotape was frustrated by a technical malfunction. There is no dispute that she took out the camera in order to record the traffic stop."

Jury Power Gets a Courtroom Nod in Possible Boost for Nullification

reason.com

May 21, 2014

Earlier this month, the authority of the jury received a welcome nod from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

In a case in which the defendant confessed in the courtroom to all of the charges against him, the court ruled that a directed "guilty" verdict was out of line, since the jury still had the right to make its own decision by its own criteria, no matter what the judge thought. For fans of jury nullification, here's a new endorsement of the power of a jury to bring a "not guilty" verdict for reasons of its own.

Jacksonville Implements Orwellian Police State, Going to 18,000 Homes Looking for Drugs and Guns | The Free Thought Project

thefreethoughtproject.com

May 21, 2014

This week, the Jacksonville Sheriff's office announced that they would be installing new security cameras around the city and knocking on more than 18,000 doors, without warrants, as a part of an initiative called "operation ceasefire".

Sheriff John Rutherford, Mayor Alvin Brown and Councilwoman Denise Lee made the announcement this Tuesday at a press conference outside of the local Sheriff's office. The sheriff admitted that many aspects of the program, including the security cameras, would be paid for with money that was taken from victims of the drug war. "We're going to use the drug money we pull out of this neighborhood to protect this neighborhood," Rutherford said.

The South Won't Rise Again - at Least Not in California After it Banned the Sale of Confederate Flags

ijreview.com

May 12, 2014

California state departments will be banned from selling anything with an image of the Confederate flag. The bill passed the California Assembly 72-1.

Actually, with all due respect to Assemblyman Hall and his mother, the package was not intended to intimidate anyone. It was a package displaying replica Confederate money that civil war buffs might be interested in. It is the same reason why Civil War reenactors on the Confederate side carry Confederate flags. In those historical contexts, it is simply history. I'm from Louisiana and my ancestors fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. I despise the Confederate States of America and everything it stood for because its whole reason for existence was to promote white supremacy and to preserve slavery. However, most men who took up arms for the Confederacy believed they were defending their homes from a foreign invader and their sacrifices should be respected.

AP Photo: Cops at Checkpoints Point Guns at Americans' Heads

thefreethoughtproject.com

May 12, 2014

6 officers were injured Friday night in Roseville, CA during a shootout with wanted parolee, Samuel Nathan Duran. Residents of a suburban Sacramento city were subject to terrorizing checkpoints in which cops were aiming weapons directly at their faces.

The photo, (credited to AP Photo/The Sacramento Bee, Randall Benton)  is captioned , "A California Highway Patrol officer and another emergency responder stop a vehicle at a checkpoint near the neighborhood where a federal immigration officer was shot and three local police officers were wounded during a violent confrontation with a suspect in the Sacramento suburb of Roseville on Friday, Oct. 25, 2013."

Congressman Trey Gowdy Silences the Press

May 12, 2014

Congressman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) turned the tables on the media and asked them questions about Benghazi . The silence was deafening.

Best video clip I've seen in months. I hope you watch it ~ it's only 3 minutes. The Media should be embarrassed by Congressman Trey Gowdy's questions. Oh, you will like this one. This is most certain the most embarrassing event that has occurred in the last 16 months. The burden falls on the media who have not done anything to investigate this. If I were to measure BIG events the media touted in the Last 40 years, I would rank this above the Nixon Watergate Scandal!!! So - why has this gone for over a year without a peep from the media??? You tell me!!!

Apple Helps Cops Hide Police Brutality

thefreethoughtproject.com

May 12, 2014

The rapid emergence of smart phones with high definition cameras leads to consequences for law-breaking cops.

Recently, law enforcement throughout the country has been trying to pass laws that would make it illegal to film them while they're on duty. But Apple is coming out with a new technology that would put all the power in a cop's hands.

Incredibly Honest Yet, Disheartening and Infuriating, Confession from a Cop

thefreethoughtproject.com

May 9, 2014

"Don't think the police are here to protect you. We are here to put money back into the system."

In a post on reddit, the op asked the following question: Workers of Reddit, what is the most disturbing thing your company does and gets away with? Fastfood, cooperate, retail, government? A man going by the name of Throwaway, as in throwaway account, left an honest reply of why he had to quit being a cop.

Albuquerque residents attempt citizen's arrest of police chief

theguardian.com

May 8, 2014

Protests against police brutality cause rowdy city council meeting to end with attempted citizen's arrest of controversial chief

As the threat of another tense standoff at an Albuquerque city council meeting brews, protesters angry over a series of police shootings are harkening back to the city's long history of civil disturbance and modeling their demonstrations after those including a notorious 1960s citizen raid of a northern New Mexico courthouse. In 1967, protesters contending the US government stole millions of acres of land from Mexican American residents stormed a courthouse to attempt a citizen's arrest of the district attorney. During the raid, the group shot and wounded a state police officer and jailer, beat a deputy and took the sheriff and a reporter hostage.

Wild at Heart: Were Intelligence Agencies Using Heartbleed in November 2013?

eff.org

May 6, 2014

Yesterday afternoon, Ars Technica published a story reporting two possible logs of Heartbleed attacks occurring in the wild, months before Monday's public disclosure of the vulnerability.

It would be very bad news if these stories were true, indicating that blackhats and/or intelligence agencies may have had a long period when they knew about the attack and could use it at their leisure. In response to the story, EFF called for further evidence of Heartbleed attacks in the wild prior to Monday. The first thing we learned was that the SeaCat report was a possible false positive; the pattern in their logs looks like it could be caused by ErrataSec's masscan software, and indeed one of the source IPs was ErrataSec.

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