Wednesday, October 17, 2007

We're the Only Ones Videophobic Enough

Officers wrote in their reports that Waterhouse ran off, they chased and then bean-bagged and Tasered him. One officer wrote, "He had refused to drop the camera which could be used as a weapon."

How's that for the new justification to keep citizen oversight at bay?

"The camera...could be used as a weapon" ?

Especially if he was deploying one of those assault cameras.

How can you tell? Easy--was he a mere citizen, or an "authorized journalist"?

Good Lord.

[Via Jeffrey H]

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Darn right a camera is a weapon!

It can make or break police-state operations.

Camera...Gun...

Both necessary and powerful.


C.H.

Anonymous said...

I sort of like designating cameras as weapons...now we can lead a campaign to get all those "remotely operated weapons" off the streets of Chicago, New York, all the other leftist utopian inner cities. And just think, we can even target the "regular ol' weapons" that are littering our department stores, schools, banks, bathrooms, highways....

-HH

Anonymous said...

Too damn bad he didn't capture images of the bad guys being gunned down.