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The Obama administration has told a federal judge that Baltimore police officers violated the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments by seizing a man's cell phone and deleting its contents.
By Timothy B. Lee
Obama administration says Constitution protects cell phone recordings
Seeded on Sat Jan 14, 2012 2:57 PM EST
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In one particularly shocking 2008 incident relayed in Sharp's complaint (but not directly involving Sharp), "police officers seized cell phones from individuals in the crowd and, as one officer recalled during a deposition related to the incident, began throwing the phones to the ground. As articulated by the deposed officer, officers were seizing phones because members of the crowd were recording the incident for later posting on YouTube and similar sites."
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#1 - Sat Jan 14, 2012 2:58 PM ESTForget the protection of the data, how about the idea that the police seized personal property and destroyed or damaged it. The police in a lot of places, seem to think that they have the right to privacy while conducting police business in public. In fact, they are public servants conducting public business and as long as someone is not directly interfering with the police officers' duties, they have every right to record an incident.
#2 - Sat Jan 14, 2012 4:15 PM ESTGlad that Obama is defending the US Constitution in this instance. We need a Supreme Court case to spell it out loudly to all those bully cops out there. Perhaps a few of them will finally be arrested and jailed for their mistreatment of the citizens they are supposed to be serving and protecting.
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#3 - Sat Jan 14, 2012 6:02 PM ESTI don't usually find myself on the same side as the President, but in this case, definitely! It always amazes me that honorable police officers and officials do not vehemently protest the actions of individual officers or entire departments that violate the rights of citizens or brutalize people with no apparent reason.
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