{"id":13049,"date":"2014-02-24T04:51:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T11:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=13049"},"modified":"2014-02-24T04:51:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T11:51:50","slug":"chicago-leo-slaps-camera-threatens-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/chicago-leo-slaps-camera-threatens-photographer\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago LEO Slaps Camera, Threatens Photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do they teach LEO&#8217;s how to trump up fictitious charges in Cop 101 to intimidate citizens who lawfully assert their rights? It&#8217;s anyone&#8217;s guess just how often this happens across the nation, but the following video documents exactly that in Chicago<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qm294TYqh6o\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>By Carlos Miller of PINAC<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chicago, IL &#8212;<\/strong> \u00a0A Chicago police officer slapped a man\u2019s camera then threatened to arrest him for disorderly conduct because he had video recorded her car after she parked on the side of a road in what appears to be a bustling commercial area of the city.<\/p>\n<p>The officer was in full uniform, but the car she was driving appeared to be her personal vehicle instead of a department-issued one. She had a couple of shirts strewn about the dashboard, prompting the man to ask about them.<\/p>\n<p>She instructed him he was not allowed to record her car, telling him it was \u201cillegal.\u201d\u00a0When he stood up for his rights, telling her it was <strong>not<\/strong> illegal, she slapped the camera, a move that would have gotten any ordinary citizen killed had they behaved in the same fashion toward her.<\/p>\n<p>She ordered the photographer to cross the street, to \u201cgo on about your business,\u201d telling him she would arrest him for disorderly conduct, which is your usual &#8216;contempt-of-cop&#8217; pretext\/cover-up.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear when the incident took place. It appears to be spring or summer. The clip was uploaded a few days ago to a Youtube channel called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/PoliceBrutalityDOTus?feature=watch\" target=\"_blank\">PoliceBrutalityDOTus,<\/a>\u00a0which uploads these types of videos. It could have been posted elsewhere earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The incident may have taken place after December 2012, when a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/photographyisnotacrime.com\/2012\/12\/24\/illinois-eavesdropping-law-finally-dead-state-attorneys-career-also-likely-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\">court order forbade<\/a>\u00a0Chicago police the use of the state\u2019s eavesdropping law to arrest people who record them in public, else the LEO likely would have seized that pretext instead of &#8216;disorderly conduct&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do they teach LEO&#8217;s how to trump up fictitious charges in Cop 101 to intimidate citizens who lawfully assert their rights? It&#8217;s anyone&#8217;s guess just how often this happens across the nation, but the following video documents exactly that in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/chicago-leo-slaps-camera-threatens-photographer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13050,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13049\/revisions\/13050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}