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From: Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS on 3 Aug 2010 14:34 http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/01/man-faces-jail-for-v.html Man faces jail for videotaping gun-waving cop Rob Beschizza at 7:51 AM Sunday, Aug 1, 2010 Police officer Joseph Uhler was caught on film charging out of his unmarked car and waving his gun at a unarmed motorcyclist pulled over for speeding. When the footage was uploaded to YouTube, authorities raided Anthony Graber's home, seized his computers, arrested him, and charged him with "wiretapping" offenses that could land him in jail for 16 years. Glyn writes in: The ACLU of Maryland is defending Anthony Graber, who potentially faces 16 years in prison if found guilty of violating state wiretap laws because he recorded video of an officer drawing a gun during a traffic stop. The ACLU attorney handling the case says, "To charge Graber with violating the law, you would have to conclude that a police officer on a public road, wearing a badge and a uniform, performing his official duty, pulling someone over, somehow has a right to privacy when it comes to the conversation he has with the motorist." Indeed, Maryland contends that Uhler had a reasonable expectation of privacy while waving his gun around in public and yelling at a motorist with a giant video camera mounted on the top of his helmet. Remarkably, the state Attorney General has already opined that when police record in public, that is not a private conversation subject to the same laws. In other words, in any public interaction between a police officer and a member of the public in Maryland, it is private for one of them but not the other. "We have looked, and have not been able to find a single court anywhere in the country that has found an expectation of privacy for an officer in such circumstances," writes the ACLU ------------------------------------ Video shows the cop is in plain-clothes. Is it common to have non- uniformed cops on traffic duty?
From: JLS on 3 Aug 2010 14:50 On Aug 3, 2:34 pm, "Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS" <beta...(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/01/man-faces-jail-for-v.html > > Man faces jail for videotaping gun-waving cop > > Rob Beschizza at 7:51 AM Sunday, Aug 1, 2010 > > Police officer Joseph Uhler was caught on film charging out of his > unmarked car and waving his gun at a unarmed motorcyclist pulled over > for speeding. When the footage was uploaded to YouTube, authorities > raided Anthony Graber's home, seized his computers, arrested him, and > charged him with "wiretapping" offenses that could land him in jail > for 16 years. Glyn writes in: > > The ACLU of Maryland is defending Anthony Graber, who potentially > faces 16 years in prison if found guilty of violating state wiretap > laws because he recorded video of an officer drawing a gun during a > traffic stop. The ACLU attorney handling the case says, "To charge > Graber with violating the law, you would have to conclude that a > police officer on a public road, wearing a badge and a uniform, > performing his official duty, pulling someone over, somehow has a > right to privacy when it comes to the conversation he has with the > motorist." Indeed, Maryland contends that Uhler had a reasonable > expectation of privacy while waving his gun around in public and > yelling at a motorist with a giant video camera mounted on the top of > his helmet. > > Remarkably, the state Attorney General has already opined that when > police record in public, that is not a private conversation subject to > the same laws. In other words, in any public interaction between a > police officer and a member of the public in Maryland, it is private > for one of them but not the other. > > "We have looked, and have not been able to find a single court > anywhere in the country that has found an expectation of privacy for > an officer in such circumstances," writes the ACLU > > ------------------------------------ > > Video shows the cop is in plain-clothes. Is it common to have non- > uniformed cops on traffic duty? This is an outrage. No jury will convict, I would wager on it. Maryland is holding itself up to public ridicule for this tyrannical prosecution.
From: drug prohibition is cop welfare on 4 Aug 2010 00:22 S and DD "Video shows the cop is in plain-clothes. Is it common to have non- uniformed cops on traffic duty? " - s and dd *************************************88 more and more, from my observation. i think they're in the repo biz, part time. and we have to do efryt'ing in our powuh to protect da officuhs.
From: Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS on 4 Aug 2010 00:56 On Aug 3, 1:33 pm, Brent <tetraethylleadREMOVET...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > There is a good chance that a jury will convict. To not convict the jury > would likely need to recognize the absurdity of the law (at least in > this instance) unless there is something I am unaware of where the > government has to prove intent to record another person. (it's obvious > that there was no intent to record a cop) The concept of jury > nullification, that is to judge the facts as well as the law is the > primary reason for having juries (to stop nonsense like this), has for > the most part been stomped out Yes - the idiot brainwashed american seldom uses nullification though it has a long and honorable history.
From: Ray Fischer on 9 Aug 2010 02:38
Drunk <betaxxx(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > >http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/01/man-faces-jail-for-v.html > >Man faces jail for videotaping gun-waving cop > >Rob Beschizza at 7:51 AM Sunday, Aug 1, 2010 > >Police officer Joseph Uhler was caught on film charging out of his >unmarked car and waving his gun at a unarmed motorcyclist pulled over >for speeding. When the footage was uploaded to YouTube, authorities >raided Anthony Graber's home, seized his computers, arrested him, and >charged him with "wiretapping" offenses that could land him in jail >for 16 years. Glyn writes in: > >The ACLU of Maryland is defending Anthony Graber, But the rightards insist that the ACLU is the enemy. Somebody must be lying. -- Ray Fischer rfischer(a)sonic.net |