Americans tend to think of Canadian cops as the kinder, gentler version of the short-tempered, trigger-happy, civil rights violating officers that make up much of the police departments in the United States.
But every once in a while, we are reminded that they can be just as bad.
Texas cops told a man it was against the law to take photos of people’s homes from public property.
Eustace cops were wrong, of course, but we all know cops depend on people being ignorant of the law in order to assert their authority.
In this case, the man knew his rights.
The video was uploaded to YouTube Wednesday by a man named James Meyer, who described it as “my first detainment for having a camera on my neck and walking down the street.”
After an almost three-month investigation, Rohnert Park officials determined the cop who pulled a gun on a man recording him acted “reasonable” and therefore will not be disciplined.
After all, they said, the cop was doing his due diligence in keeping the neighborhood safe, investigating culprits violating city parking codes, when he came across the man with the camera.
PINAC correspondent Philip Turner was arrested in July for recording police from a public sidewalk. Now, Turner is suing the five officers from the Round Rock, Texas police department who illegally arrested him.
Two men at Chicago O’Hare Airport were harassed by Chicago police and had their Constitutional rights violated for riding in a Lyft taxi that allegedly wasn’t allowed.
After a long business trip, a passenger who goes by Stovie Wan Kenobi on YouTube loaded his belongings in a Lyft taxi and left the airport.
But moments later, airport police officers pulled the taxi over for what appeared to be a traffic stop.
Despite coming up with a novel argument to justify wiretapping charges against Alfredo Valentin, the New Hampshire man arrested in March for recording police as they searched his home, prosecutors were smacked down by a judge in a ruling issued last Wednesday.
“They tried to take the language from Massachusetts law, and they kind of tried to sneak it into New Hampshire law,” said Brandon Ross, Valentin’s attorney.
Reeling from its embarrassing accusation that citizens with cameras lead to an increase in homicide rates, the FBI now has a new announcement to make; that anarchists with masks plan to ambush cops on Halloween night.
The group of anarchists even has a name; the National Liberation Militia. And their planned ambush also has a name; the “Halloween Revolt.”
On Saturday, the New York City Police Department antagonized a permitted march and rally against police terror with several legally dubious tactics, as PINAC News first reported.
The NYPD violently arrested a peaceful protester holding his two-year-old child on his shoulders Saturday, allegedly for standing on a park bench, as well as 10 other peaceful protesters at a demonstration against police violence.
