Retiring Columbia professor arrested by NYPD for standing outside his house, video-recording them.
If this happened as described in the article, some NYPD leadership needs to be fired. Not street officers, necessarily, but the people who led them to do this. It is not illegal to record cops, period end of sentence.
If the law says #civilians can’t record an officer while they’re in the line of duty, and they also can’t challenge #police departments on what their officers do while they’re in the line of duty, then what power at all does a citizen have to protect themselves from #policeMisconduct?
When #MAGA Republicans hold power, the Constitution isn't upheld:
#DeathSantis signed a new law today that guts oversight of police.
The law furthers limit local civilian police oversight boards by barring them from investigating allegations of police misconduct. Police unions support the law -it protects the rights of officers. Critics: another blow to police accountability efforts already shackled by existing state laws giving cops extraordinary legal protections-.