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.
Do it anyways.
Won’t stop me
Unacceptable
Don’t want real Americans to see how stupid and ignorant you are.
Then news reporters will not be able to film public officials on a campaign trail either, right??? It is all about accountability and not changing stories
The Supreme Court will blow this$#%&!@*out of the water!!!!!!
What are you hiding?
ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS
Don’t matter to me they didn’t buy my phone for me and they will not tell me how I can use It! Go ahead arrest away you don’t have enough jails to handle every phone out There! All they are doing is taking away any and all security in America so they can have us all killed. Next they will come in our homes and take away our knifes, forks,spoons,yard tools just think the list is so long soon we will live like cave people with our arms missing because it may be a tool used against Them! Can’t wait for these hateful ignorant people to be gone!
this is going to get over turned in the SCOTUS fast the 8th is almost as bad as the 9th