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

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Kasz216 said:

Taping police officers shouldn't be a crime.

Though a lot of the "cut edits" used that you see on you tube should be though, under basic slander laws.

15 years is excessive though.

It's odd though that they didn't even bother to get the otherside of the story. Which is the law was enacted because gang members were bugging cops to get details of their investigation and to get personal information.

Or mention that there is an exception that allows you to record police when there is a reasonable expectation that they are going to do something illegal.  Though that's why you need to actually read more then one article on a subject rather then blindly believe the first youtube video/article you see.

As for the 75 years thing.  No doubt it's 15 years concurrent for each charge... and nevermind the fact that the maxiums never get handed out anyway.

Here in Norway, you are allowed to tape anyone you want to but it is illegal to share or show the images with/to anyone else, it then becomes exposure. We encounter this all the time at work (I work as a bouncer and security guard), it can be frustrating when people are filming you handcuffing someone or simply controlling someone on the ground and they scream insults and generally aggravate the situation but we have no law to prevent them from this. These tapes are often out of context or completely lacking backstory at all, people love to portray others are mean or abusive, doubly so when they're wearing a uniform of any kind.

This whole thing has taken off since everyone started buying phones with cameras, especially since the cameraphones nowadays take crisp and clear images and it appears hopeless to ensure that no one shows their footage to anyone but I still somewhat defend peoples right to film/photograph certain events, it could turn out to be evidence one way or the other. I actually have co-workers who have gotten off the hook after a video of the situation surfaced.