05-20-2023, 03:07 PM
(05-19-2023, 12:47 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Why would she have any reason to believe that it was an illegal stop, when it was already in progress when she got around the corner?
You get these types of people at almost literally every arrest now. They are also very frequently aggressive and escalate the situation. I wasn't there and we only have the plaintiff's side of this story, so we have no idea if that occurred here or the police were, on this occasion, in the wrong. It is certainly not illegal to film the police, or anyone in public for that matter. It is illegal to obstruct a peace officer in the course of their duty. No criminal charges ended up being filed, which isn't uncommon even if actual obstruction occurred, so criminal liability is obviously not on the table. As an aside obstruction charges are not often filed, unless they are grouped in with a larger filing because it's a low level misdemeanor and those types of cases almost never make it to court in a busy jurisdiction. There just isn't enough time on the docket and the crime isn't serious enough.
