ACLU sues Baltimore police for deleting videos off cell phone

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Eric W. Dolan
Raw Story
Thursday, September 1, 2011

The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland (ACLU) on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the Baltimore City Police Department on behalf a man whose personal videos were deleted after he filmed officers subduing and arresting a woman.

“Police officers doing their jobs in a public place are accountable to the public they serve, and camera phones have become an important accountability tool,” said ACLU Legal Director Deborah Jeon. “It is antithetical to a democracy for the government to tell its citizens that they do not have the right to record what government officials say or do or how they behave in public.”

The lawsuit alleges Christopher Sharp was detained and harangued by police officers after he recorded the arrest.

He handed over his phone to officers after being told to surrender it as “evidence.” Once the cell phone was in the officer’s possession, they deleted the video of the arrest and all other videos contain on the cell phone.

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3 Responses to “ACLU sues Baltimore police for deleting videos off cell phone”

  1. Fascist Police States of ASSERICA

    All the little PUSSIES, trained to say Sir Yes Sir.

    Even the poms RIOT when the going gets tough.

    ASSERICANS just have another Cheese Burger FRIED in CHEESE waddle to the door and collapse

  2. I’m sorry I thought I lived in America not Communist China. WTF is going on in this country? The State can record us but we can’t record them? The day they start shutting down gun manufactures is the day to stock up to the rim.

  3. Deleting things off a memory card doesn’t really erase them they are easily recoverable with freeware on the net, so long as you don’t record new data over the deleted files 😉

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