Since the advent of the camcorders and videophones, a lot of citizen reporter type of video recordings have found their way on blogs, youtube, and various social media sites. Police actions are not an exception to being subject matters of interest to the average documentary enthusiast. However, police officers in Baltimore don’t seem to a big fan of police action videos. In the case of Christopher Sharp, Baltimore police officers took his phone away and deleted some of his videos. One of ...
Read more …Since the advent of the camcorders and videophones, a lot of citizen reporter type of video recordings have found their way on blogs, youtube, and various social media sites. Police actions are not an exception to being subject matters of interest to the average documentary enthusiast. However, police officers in Baltimore don’t seem to a big fan of police action videos. In the case of Christopher Sharp, Baltimore police officers took his phone away and deleted some of his videos. One of the videos that was deleted was of Baltimore police officers arresting Sharp’s friend. Sharp sued. Moreover, the Obama administration made a position on the matter by saying that Baltimore police officers violated the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments by seizing a man's cell phone and deleting its contents.
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