NYPD Put Couple On 'Wanted' Poster For Videotaping Police

by Mike Masnick

We've had plenty of stories lately about police overreacting to people filming them -- and multiple courts have ruled that filming the police is perfectly legal. Even the Justice Department has spoken out and warned police departments that they need to let the public photograph and video tape them if they want.

And yet, we keep hearing of new incidents of police going after people for filming them. Slashdot now points us to a story that takes that to a different level. It involves the NY Police Department creating a "wanted" poster for a couple who have been regularly filming them and posting the videos to a YouTube channel. While the poster did not technically say "wanted" it sure looked like a Wanted poster, and the couple worried that anyone who saw it would think they were sought for arrest. The poster did describe them as "professional agitators."

After calling police about the posters, they were told that they had been taken down, but the police still have not explained why they created them in the first place.

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Posted: Jul 10 2012, 11:28 AM

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If you read the poster it mentions where the people in it live. Their Address! Is that lawful even in the slightest? Doesn't that put them in danger?
Moving on from that point, and the repercussions if the people in the poster had displayed, in public, a police officer's home address on a similar poster;
The rest of it sounds like an activist flier. I've never seen police use this tactic before. Very interesting. Wrong, but interesting.

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Posted: Jul 10 2012, 4:21 PM

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The police have been used as willing pawns in the 1%er corporatists' fight against Occupy & other dissidents. The extreme reaction of the so-called 'authorities' against dissidents shows how vitally important Occupy's focus is. Unless the general populace rouses itself, Occupy & the unions are the sole opponents of the capitalist-fascists (predatory capitalists, corporatist-fascists) that now run our govt nearly completely. As you noted, Anonymous 7414, the posters are a new level of harassment. Whoever put the posters up should be prosecuted.

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