Posted on 03/08/2014 10:39:39 AM PST by Texas Fossil
FALL RIVER, MASS. (WPRI) – A Fall River man has been charged with violating the Massachusetts wiretapping statute for recording a police officer talking on his cell phone and cursing while working a street detail.
George Thompson, 51, of Fall River, faces one count each of unlawful wiretap and resisting arrest stemming from the Jan. 6 incident.
(Excerpt) Read more at wpri.com ...
Now the video is gone. Who do you think erased it?
"An iPhone can be wiped out remotely in the event it gets lost or stolen, but Thompson denied that he did so, saying he gave his password to police so officers could retrieve the video to use in his case."
I am glad I don't live near the Peoples Republic of Boston. They would surely have me in jail too.
Sounds like North Korea. Yikes, I’m getting nervous.
Nervous?
I am Angry and I don’t live near that seat of ComDem Insanity.
Ping
It is not in a city near you, but what do you think of this?
This proves there is no clown shortage.
The wiretap charge is bogus and about as chicken as it gets. It's payback for the LEO getting his teet caught in the ringer...I'd hire and real good attorney and make an example of them and make some money.
But the Mass court deemed that photographing
any young woman’s crotch by spy cam was A-OK
according to the black-robed tyrants, just this week.
Found this:
http://www.corporationwiki.com/people/index.aspx/B/6/35/
Thomas Barboza
President of Tom Barboza Construction Inc
Located in West Wareham, MA
Companies: Tom Barboza Construction Inc
Wonder if it was one of his own construction sites that he was on duty for?
Here is a local article about the incident dated Feb. 17th
http://fall-river.wickedlocal.com/article/20140217/NEWS/140216294
This one has a picture of the man who was arrested. And a little more detail.
-PJ
There is an expectation of privacy behind the skirt,
and SPY CAMS on buses that skirt around the skirt are
the real assault.
I agree, but it appears that is not what is written in the MA state statutes.
However a Federal Appeals court has ruled as you stated. That Police cannot use video recording law to shield their action while on duty.
But remember this is in MA. And it is near Boston.
All semblance of sanity is suspended in those places.
I do not consider today’s police organizations of any kind to be of the same societal class as mine i.e. plain old USA citizen who thought he fought in WWII for equality and had an only brother killed on Okinawa and buried in a simple grave in Hawai. I don’t go with the idea that anytime a law enforcement person dies or gets killed in the line of duty that I and many like minded citizens have to pay for all the travel and use of vehicles whereas a dead soldier in most cases gets a bare level trip home or plain vet ceremony.
I had an offer to transfer to the Boston branch of my company. Good job, good move professionally. I politely declined, then literally laughed out loud after hanging up. Not a chance in hades. I'd go go back to pumping gas and stocking shelves, and live in a used mobile home by the interstate before I'd move to Boston. (or anywhere in CA for that matter) I think we all have our "no way in h**l" places, right? Places we would never consider living.
This proves there is no clown shortage.
The wiretap charge is bogus and about as chicken as it gets. It's payback for the LEO getting his teet caught in the ringer...I'd hire and real good attorney and make an example of them and make some money.
If the alleged incident was erased from the phone, what evidence do they have that any crime was committed, the truthful word of the arresting officer?
Good for you, sir.
Thanks for that insight.
We have our work cut out for us to overcome this insanity.
If there is nothing on the phone. sounds like false arrest.
Yup! I think you’re right. Sue the police for false arrest, provide the phone and show that there isn’t a video.
Just out of curiosity...why would someone go out on the street and start videotaping a cop - or for that matter, anyone. Was the cop doing something illegal? Is this guy stalking the cop?
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