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Man Faces 75 Years In Prison For Filming Police In Public

Posted by JacobSloan on September 1, 2011

Despite no criminal history, Michael Allison may spend the remainder of his life behind bars as punishment for recording his (unexciting) interactions with officers who stopped by his mother’s home, where he repairs old cars. (The concern was that some of the vehicles were unregistered.) After griping to the local police department about selective enforcement and presenting his recordings as evidence, Allison was charged with five counts of eavesdropping, a class one felony. Why jail him? To send the message that documenting the actions of public officials will not be tolerated.

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  • http://voxmagi-necessarywords.blogspot.com/ VoxMagi

    Agreed…I’ve advocated the use of old tech before…precisely because in an era of increasing monitoring of social and modern mediums…old routes of communication are newly made safer than modern ones.

    They want you phone tapped and your comp registered and restricted…find old communication routes that aren’t so easily breached. 

  • Tuna Ghost

    ….wow.  Didn’t expect you to drop the n-bomb, Andrew.  Unless that’s just someone putting the frame job on the other Andrew we all know and…tolerate.

  • Tuna Ghost

    Got an email address for us?  I’m sort of on the other side of the world

  • http://voxmagi-necessarywords.blogspot.com/ VoxMagi

    I agree that some of us must stand and deliver…but we also need a wider path that allows more involvement for people who aren’t willing to take a tazer in the back or a boot to the face. The brave make up a tiny minority…and frankly we need numbers…and we can only get that by finding innovative ways to let people participate in ways that don’t put them at great personal risk. I’m willing to be monitored on a street corner…with my sign in hand…and probably have been measured and photographed  more that once because of anti-war and pro legalization rallies…but many who lack courage and conviction are empathetic to the cause…they just aren’t willing to put it on the line and risk death or torture…and I accept that…its just a goddam shame that in this country you have to be emotionally prepared for violence and legal harassment just to have politics that don’t meet the state sanctioned norm.  

  • Ronniedobbs

    I’ve lived in NC all my life and most blue collar jobs here ARE minimum wage with no benefits….

  • http://www.ContraControl.com/ Zenc

    State’s Attorney: Thomas R. Wiseman
    Email: twiseman@crawfordcountycentral.com
     

  • Anonymous

    When done openly and it conforms to other laws. In some states secretly taping someone (anyone, not just cops) is illegal – you have to openly tell them or otherwise make it obvious that you are indeed filming them for it to be legal. And the ruling of a court in one district does not apply to laws in other districts. And in some places there may actually be laws specifically addressing how and when you can tape public officers discharging their public duties (again, not just police but all public servants). There’s good reason for there to be certain limits on certain types of recording, including avoiding entrapment (the cops film you but only the part where they get you to say something that’s incriminating out of context) and making sure that undercover officers are not outed on youtube.

    So it’s best to find out what the wiretapping and video recording laws are where you are at, because it may actually be illegal where you are. Don’t rely on the results of a case in some other state!

  • Anonymous

    depends on the laws in Illinois and the county and city where the filming took place. In some places filming without permission isn’t illegal and in some filming openly will still be illegal.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZMJEXZ2HDL77JXOUY5MCC4YYBU .

    They don’t want to be recorded because they love to commit crimes and not have to answer for it.

    They rather see whole families carried out of homes in body
    bags and kiss a child molester while patting them on their
    backs for doing a good job destroying children’s lives and
    their families.

    Another reason they’re jerks is because of this…

    http://www.adversity.net/policefire.htm

  • JOE

    un american thought we had rights !!! our constitution what

  • CosmicAmazing

    No, all our presidents as of late have been signing polices that fuck us over. Obama is no different. I hated Bush as well.. Never voted for either of the two idiots.. 

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  • Pissedoff

    If this guy goes to jail, people need to burn the courthouse, the judge and the police chief’s homes to the ground. The police in this situation are human scum. FUCK THEM!

  • Emilyhochman

    So…Rodney King case is no precedent of officers needing to be exposed and sentenced, sometimes by covert means?  I mean, can you imagine if the person who taped that had walked up to them and asked their approval?!  Would have had the crap beaten out of him, his camera confiscated and spent the night in jail.

  • Me

    WHERE IS YOUR RAGE, WORLD!?!?!? THIS IS HORRIFYING! END THIS!

  • http://twitter.com/safehealthcare RUBY FRANKLIN

    He told them that he was going to record so if any disagreed they should have made it known not kept silent which means they agreed.  Why allow to record then later arrest?  Abuse of power is what this law is because discriminates against tax pay citizens, men of land, or civilians.  So basically there is no protection for people.

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