That’s What You Get for Filming the Police

Here’s an excellent article on the epidemic of police retaliation against people who film them: That’s What You Get for Filming the Police. Filming the police is a clearly established First Amendment right – thanks in part to our firm’s victory in the federal appeals court for the First Circuit, Glik v. Cunniffe. But despite this opinion, police continue to harass, intimidate, arrest or assault people who record them. And police continue to confiscate or destroy the cameras of, and delete the footage taken by people who film them. The article correctly lays much of the blame for this problem on the failure of police departments to discipline officers who violate civilians’ constitutional right to record the police.