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Filming cops is a First Amendment right. The feds keep harassing people for it anyway.

'The Right to Gather Information' The first circuit court victory for the right to record the police was also a defeat. James and Barbara Smith complained that cops in Cumming, Georgia, had prevented ...

He filmed police actions for transparency. Then came arrests — of him

Gabriel Bassford started filming police activity in Arizona in 2021. He was arrested several times, raising questions about ...

YouTube activist Long Island Auditor arrested after ‘threatening’ video stunt at PBA headquarters: union

A popular activist YouTuber known for his First Amendment video stunts was arrested Thursday after he showed up uninvited to ...
The Baltimore Sun

‘First Amendment auditors’ charged by Havre de Grace Police with harassment

The three masked men filming people outside a post office in Havre de Grace last month now face harassment and disorderly conduct charges. Havre de Grace Police said they received more than 34 ...

Louisiana Cops Threatened To Arrest a Man for Handing Out Religious Leaflets. They Got Qualified Immunity.

Richard Hershey is asking the Supreme Court to overrule a 5th Circuit decision that blocked the lawsuit provoked by that ...
Reason

The First Amendment and Off-Duty Police Officer's Counterprotest of Anti-ICE Student Protest

Some excerpts from the long opinion in Mullen v. Giordano, decided Thursday by Judge Susan Brnovich (D. Ariz.): The Ninth Circuit has distilled Pickering v. Board of Education (1968) into a five-step ...