Last year the NH Liberty Alliance put it’s weight behind HB 312, a bill which would allow members of the public to record government agents (who have the legal authority to kill you) in public without the fear of being arrested.
This video from Seattle (which went viral today) is the real reason why the police do not want to be recorded:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B45QPOfpZcE
If you don’t think people get arrested for filming their own law enforcement agents, please talk to our friend Cooper Travis about how he was arrested for filming the police as he was standing on his own property. In that particular case the Candia, NH Police administration did the right thing and ordered the arresting officer to release him without charges. The same cannot be said for our friends who were recently arrested in Weare for doing similar.
They say a drunk driver drives numerous times wasted for every one time they are caught. Imagine how many times this now sincerely sorry officer had used racist slurs and assaulted members of the public before he was caught.
When this bill returns again in the NH General Court there simply is no excuse for law enforcement to oppose it. That is, if they really believe that police should be held to a “higher standard.” How many police misconduct incidents have only seen the light of day due to a camera?
This misbehavior happens every day…. and this is how it is stopped.
(By the way…. The Police Chief’s Association here in New Hampshire thinks that the freelance journalist who caught this on tape should be arrested. They opposed the law change here in New Hampshire which would have “allowed” this type of public recording.)
