re: First Amendment Auditors: who are these d'bags?

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Tell me you are a cop without telling me you are a cop.

These videos do not exist without ignorant cops violating citizens'rights

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You mean like the pic in the WaPo story where a masked filmer was literally 4 feet away from a LE officer interacting with a traffic stop, fully garbed with a camera and mask....
WAIT! Stop the press, I just looked at the WaPo article and they changed the lead picture which displayed what I described. I don't want to take credit, but someone must have thought that picture was too provocative. And they would be right.

Just to be clear, I'm fully on board with folks filming an arrest or a domestic dispute, etc. I just have a problem with cameras in close proximity to a law enforcement engagement. Let them do their job.

And no I'm not a cop and I have more bad experiences with cops than I do good. But I'm getting older and less mischievous, so the past cop encounters in the past several years are like 3 out of 4 good, the 4th being a dumb roll through stop sign ticket that I'd say was, uh, triggered by an early siren (entrapment by a young and eager cop).