75 years in prison for videotaping law enforcement....

[Millenium]

Kasz216 said:

Millenium said:

I'm sorry, but:

The entire concept of police laws & departments needs to be heavily reviewed and edited worldwide, things like this are absolutely ridiculous.

Cops are way too often given free leash to employ unnecesarry police brutality against people who've done nothing wrong, and now taping that is illegal?!

If they send this man to jail for any amount of time, even if it's 6 months, well that'd just be criminal.

No it isn't.  It's illegal to tape the police if they don't do such things and you have no reason to have suspision they will.

It was a law enacted by police in illnois because gang members were bugging the police to get case info and personal info from them.

And what if I see a police officer beating on a old lady for no reason, will it be ok then?

And in this person(s) case it seems obvious he was taping police being a little too enthuisiastic about using their force.

Sorry if I seem anti-police to you, I'm not, I just feel there need to be better regulations in place to stop such events from occuring, and if they do the officers need to be charged accordingly instead of getting of with a slap on the wrist simply because they are police.