>>>http://abcnews.go.com/US/TheLaw/videotaping-cops-arrest/story?id=11179076
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>>Warning: the article supposedly has a video of the recording, with the image of the cop, but when you run it, there's an ad, unskippable.
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>>Welcome to the police state. The arguments on which this law was passed is the best proof of the intent to inaugurate Big Brother as CiC.
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>Actually the law was passed to protect the private citizen. However, when the law was passed, they failed to include exceptions for public and/or government employees filmed by private citizens in the course of their jobs.

And you fully believe the failure was accidental?

There's something fishy when laws are written so that they are full of exceptions, or need to be full of them, to start making sense. Laws should be simple.