VIDEO: Cops harassed man filming them, cooked up charges to "cover our ass"


Michael Picard, 27, of East Hartford, was charged with creating a public disturbance and reckless use of the highway for the Sept. 11 incident in which a trooper can be heard saying on a recording of the encounter, “We gotta cover our asses.”

This video depicts an angry cop lying about the law—”it’s illegal to take photographs of me”—then, after he confiscates the camera but forgets to turn it off, his discussion with a fellow officer about now to “cover our ass.” The Hartford Courant reports they’re in some superficial degree of trouble over this, which is a start.

Michael Picard, 27, of East Hartford, was charged with creating a public disturbance and reckless use of the highway for the Sept. 11 incident in which a trooper can be heard saying on a recording of the encounter, “We gotta cover our asses.”


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