Know Your Rights!

It was a scene straight out of Nazi Germany.
Except it happened in the land of the free.
A military police officer at Luke Air Force base in Glendale, Arizona was caught on video arresting a peaceful cop watcher who goes by “Silent Citizen” on YouTube.
Because that’s his schtick.
Silent Citizen records police all while never saying a word, refraining from comments, insults or questions solely intended to incriminate the person answering them, which is supposed to be a Constitutionally protected right in the so-called land of the free.

The U.S. Court of  Appeals Court for the Fifth Circuit has ruled in a 2-1 decision that the public has the First Amendment right to record activities of law enforcement because it ensures cops “are not abusing their power.”

It started over an argument between a father and a son in Central Florida that resulted in the cops being called.
Orlando police arrived and determined that no crime had been committed, but a cop named Sanchez took an extreme dislike to the son and began berating him.
Ryan Romasco said he began recording after the cop placed his hands on him.
The video, posted below, shows Romasco sitting in the passenger’s seat of his father’s vehicle with the cop ordering him to step out and walk back to his hotel room, which was 10 miles away.

An Atlantic City police officer threatened to sic a dog on a teenager for recording him during a traffic stop. The cop also threatened to knock the teen out if he did not stop recording.
The teen turned the camera off.
But a 1:21 video surfaced on the internet earlier this morning on the Mediatakeout Facebook page where it’s quickly going viral.

Despite refusing to release the body cam footage showing a Texas cop violently arresting a mom and her daughter after they had called him for help, somebody within the department apparently leaked the video to the family’s lawyer, who then released it to the media.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol released dash cam video from Monday’s incident in which they released a police dog on a man trying to record his cousin’s arrest.
The dash cam video shows the cop trying to pull over Samuel Tolbert for driving without a license plate, but Tolbert did not appear to realize he was being pulled over until after he pulled up into the driveway of his cousin’s house.

Arkansas cops were busted in a video recorded January 15 detaining, arresting and charging a man with “obstructing governmental operations” for doing nothing more than walking down a rural road back to his father’s house after catching his lost kitten that had darted out an open door minutes earlier.
After arresting the man for refusing to identify himself, Mena police officer Mike Wolf, 53, can be heard slamming 25-year-old Timothy Perry’s body on the hood of his police cruiser after he was handcuffed.
Timothy Perry and Freedom, his cat.

A  Texas sheriff made good on his promise to take action after he was made aware of a video taken by PINAC reporter Phillip Turner showing a complaint audit fail at his department that we reported about on January 8.

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke had a man detained for looking at him the wrong way on an airplane Sunday.  Or for mocking him over a football game.
Or, if you believe the sheriff, for making him fear for his life.
“Next time he or anyone else pulls this stunt on a plane they may get knocked out,” the sheriff said in a statement. “I do not have to wait for some goof to assault me.”

Phoenix cops handcuffed and detained a man for 35 minutes for recording on a public sidewalk outside a police station, citing “safety” reasons.
The man’s name is Elijah Wesbrock, according to his YouTube channel.
But the two officers who detained him apparently were unable to pry that information from him during the entire time they harassed, intimidated, handcuffed and frisked him for weapons.
They even turned off his camera, which was when they threatened to confiscate it, telling him he would be unable to retrieve it without providing his name.