“I don’t answer questions. Am I being detained?”

  • someguy3@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I was just wondering about this presentation, specifically what he thinks about being able to record your interaction with a phone now (no he said she said). Still better to not say anything that can be used against you. Will watch again!

    • JudCrandall@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      I’m not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, but I am 100% for recording ALL of your interactions with the police. Up until recently (2020) in my state the police were abusing an anti-wiretapping law to prevent citizens from recording them, but since then:

      This right was established in a case brought by ACLUM, Martin v. Rollins, 982 F.3d 813, 827 (1st Cir. 2020), which was consolidated with another case, Project Veritas Action Fund v. Rollins. There, the First Circuit said the Massachusetts Wiretap Statute’s criminalization of the secret recording of police officers in public spaces violated the First Amendment.

      You’re within your First Amendment rights to record police and your interactions, surreptitiously or not, at any time. State law cannot supersede the Constitution. You benefit because the police are often intentionally slow (see any number of articles posted here in this community) to release their own bodycam footage, and often go weeks if not months or years providing a false narrative to the public. Record it yourself.