With the advent of cellphones as a standard device carried by hundreds of millions daily, the ability of citizens to film police and politicians in public settings has increased accountability for those holding positions of public trust.
Unfortunately, a growing trend of judicial tyranny could curtail a person’s right to access their phone to suddenly film an event unfolding before them in a public setting.
First Amendment rights advocates argue that the right to film public events should never be abrogated, given the protections of the U.S. Constitution.
But with the judiciary having more statist judges in place, it’s become more challenging to protect these most basic rights.
In the federal Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in Missouri, a recent ruling has struck down the right to film public officials in a public setting. On the next page, learn how the dispute may have to head to the Supreme Court to get resolved.
What is next? Will it soon become illegal to notice what is going on around you in public? Will it become illegal to speak of it as well? This is all just an attempt to allow people who are doing something wrong to be able to get away with it.
This will go all the way to SCOTUS, who will overturn it.
They have nothing to fear or hide, right?
LOL ~
That BS ruling won’t stand in a higher court(s).
It wasn’t the Supreme Court so it doesn’t hold water….
But they can film wiretap and surveillance in citizens any time for any reason. LOL.
PS – they serve us –
What? That’s bullsh1t. That law has to be challenged all the way up to SCOTUS if need be.
What you bastard’s have to hide