Citizens have the legal right to record police officers in public places as an exercise of freedom of the press, and police officers who threaten to damage or destroy recording equipment are engaging in misconduct that may constitute a crime, as demonstrated when an officer threatened to 'smack' a citizen's camera while the citizen was exercising their constitutional right to document law enforcement activities.
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VERY UPSET BECAUSE HE THREATENED TO SMACK ME.
>> I'm very upset BECAUSE THE OFFICER OF the law THAT'S SUPPOSED TO PROTECT ME AND MY RIGHTS THREATENED TO SMACK MY CAMERA.
>> I'M EXERCISING MY FREEDOM OF THE PRESS TO RECORD IN public places.
>> You protect me.
>> You're getting too close.
>> Come on, bro. Stop playing with me, bro.
>> Play with you.
>> A sergeant.
>> See, bro, how you going to threaten or smack people? You never going to do that IN YOUR LIFE. THIS IS GOING TO BE YOUR LAST TIME. I'M GOING TO TAKE IT ALL THE WAY UP THE CHAIN OF COMMAND.
>> Let me ask you a question.
>> Don't talk to me. I'm not talking OVER YOU.
>> DON'T TALK TO ME. DON'T IT'S NOT A STICK. IT'S A CAMERA. THE SAME ONE YOU GOT IN YOUR CHEST. THE SAME ONE THAT'S UP HERE. LOOK, THIS THE CAMERA RIGHT HERE. LOOK.
>> YEAH. He's Let him talk to me cuz you're dirty, bro.
>> And I don't talk to dirty cops.
>> You dirty. You say you going to smack my camera, bro. Hear that [ __ ] He repeat it again. You hear that?
>> I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it.
I'm going to do it.
>> You heard it right. You heard it. You heard it right in front of you, RIGHT?
YOU'RE A witness of that. YOU'RE A WITNESS TO HIM TRYING TO COMMIT A CRIME.
>> You hear me? You're a witness to him.
No. No. I want to keep him. Watch. I'm not him. Insane.
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