You can try to film the cops but I think as this becomes more common they are going to kick the shit out of cameramen. Personally I think it’s way risky. Here a cop assaults an l.a. woman for trying to record them.[/quote]
As much as I understand the frustration that cops feel when people crowd around them (often shouting insults), and stick cameras in their faces, I agree that it needs to be done. There are definitely abuses out there, and those cops need to be held accountable.[/quote]
cops don’t like being filmed because it’s new and it changes everything. It makes them very vulnerable to exposure where before they could do anything. It’s not frustration. It’s fear. It’s not a few cops feeling it. It’s many.[/quote]
It doesn’t need to be done and shouldn’t be . Cops don’t like random people encroaching on police business, sure there is some fear of the cameras related to having abuses or mistakes filmed, but even before this technology became ubiquitous
if something was going down they didn’t want people involved, they didn’t want you to dribble a basketball around them. Not necessarily unreasonable. The person could approach with a camera and jump them . The camera people could become hostages or get in the way. Being reasonable, The cameras and persons holding them need to be at a significant distance. Just because the mob is carrying cameras doesn’t put them on the side of fair play. People do not belong right on top of police work especially with the number of hysterical people these days.
