[flowerplough]

It didn’t appear that the BART videos were being used in a commission of a crime, so what could people have done to prevent police from illegally confiscating their cameras?

“Probably not a whole lot,” said Randazza. “You don’t want to get into a situation where you are refusing to comply with law enforcement, especially when that law enforcement officer just shot and killed somebody. No camera is worth losing your life over.”

No camera is worth losing your life over, but the principles of American freedom are. In a similar circumstance, cops would have to shoot me to get my camera. Randazza might be a First Amendment attorney, but he's also a wuss.

[stuartcr]

Do you think that if you were killed while preventing a cop from taking your phone/camera, you would be hailed as a hero of American principles, or just forgotten about in a couple of years?