With the advent of cellphones as a standard device carried by hundreds of millions daily, the ability of citizens to film police and politicians in public settings has increased accountability for those holding positions of public trust.
Unfortunately, a growing trend of judicial tyranny could curtail a person’s right to access their phone to suddenly film an event unfolding before them in a public setting.
First Amendment rights advocates argue that the right to film public events should never be abrogated, given the protections of the U.S. Constitution.
But with the judiciary having more statist judges in place, it’s become more challenging to protect these most basic rights.
In the federal Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in Missouri, a recent ruling has struck down the right to film public officials in a public setting. On the next page, learn how the dispute may have to head to the Supreme Court to get resolved.
Yeah because 80% of them don’t want to stand accountable for their actions that’s why they don’t want their pictures taken.
That still can be fought in court. Congress cannot pass any laws that the citizens have to obey and they cant. Besides we pay them. When are we the ppl going to get tired of their bs and fire them. They are the problem. Not white ppl and not black ppl. THEY ARE!!
That court is full of sodommites
This is absurd.
They can come take my phone at the same time they take my weapons.
They can’t stop us. If news cameras can so can we
Yes we do.
The Democratic Party wants American rights taken away!!
Break the rules. RESIST
What are they afraid of, the American ppl seeing and hearing them in there greatest moments??? Like every time Pelosi and Waters open there mouths ????