[Leaning Right]

There was a thread here on FR a couple of days back about videotaping cops. This story adds another twist: cell phones as potential firearms.

[Vaquero]

Union thugs of the jack boot variety.

[Sgt_Schultze]

There’s a simple fix for this. First time infraction for interfering with a videotaping, 3 month unpaid suspension, second offense, loss of job.

[luvbach1]

If one goes to the stores that specialize in such items, one can buy a gun disguised as almost anything; therefore, the cops can challenge any object you point at them whether a camera or a roll of toilet paper.

[SkyDancer]

Lots of pinhole spy cameras out there to buy.

[darkwing104]

YouTubeaphobia

[P-Marlowe]

I wonder. When dogs at the city pound are supposed to be euthanized are they actually sent down to the police firing range?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This is the only reason I’d consider a google glass... documenting the jackboots.

[9YearLurker]

I love that NYCLU app!

[shelterguy]

“””I was told by another officer while in the car that recording a police officer was illegal because people are using iPhones as guns and shooting cops through the camera lens.””””

Seriesly? Doesn’t the cop know that James Bond retired?

[Michael.SF.]

Oh the dilemma: Jackbooted thugs vs. Cyclist!

[Slings and Arrows]

Ping!

[uncommonsense]

"Paybarah was jailed at Central Booking for 13 hours that day, and though he was originally pulled over for running a red light, he was also charged with resisting arrest, obstruction of justice, and criminal mischief."

Besides the thuggery of cops, they try to load up charges and ruin every otherwise orderly, peaceful, and productive life that they can. This guy had a traffic infraction - resisting arrest and criminal mischief...?

This guy needed a good lawyer to counter-charge the officers and prosecution. Slam the thugs hard and make it count - ruin their careers to the same degree they do to others. This crap has got to stop!

[Sherman Logan]

people are using iPhones as guns and shooting cops through the camera lens.

Not possible. A cell phone gun would have to fire in the long dimension.

[tumblindice]

I remember when NY state passed this law and was the subject of a thread here: the “Annoy a cop” crime.
Strange but true, and only in the city so nice they named it twice.

[freedumb2003]

>>cell phones as potential firearms.<<

Yes, the now-famous iPhone cameragun. Police have every reason to fear every PDA is in reality a gun that can shoot through the camera aperture.

It was just a question of time before cops caught up to this technology...

[gitmo]

We need to outlaw cellphones. Or restrict them to 7 pictures.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The problem here is not with the photography, but in being seen as photographing. The solution is to use a remote wire camera, which only presents a dime or less sized lens, attached by wire to the phone.

Add to that a transmission buffer, that while you are recording, sends blocks of data to a remote site, so even if they grab your camera, it continues to send blocks of data until it is turned off. To a safe place they cannot tamper with or erase.

[FreedomGuru]

“I was told by another officer while in the car that recording a police officer was illegal because people are using iPhones as guns and shooting cops through the camera lens.”

iPhones barely work as phones.

[grumpygresh]

Why risk confiscation of your camera or arrest when cameras and recoding devices can easily be concealed? There are many eyeglass camera/ microphones on the market at reasonable prices.
I do understand that many want to assert their rights by openly taping police in public. So, the next time one of these incidents occurs, make sure that one individual has a concealed camera.

[Dr. Sivana]

The BBs you could fit in the very-skinny iPhone would have nothing on the ultimate secret weapon ... The SIX-FINGER, from Topper.