Story about filming in a court room......
Today I went to court with a friend who routinely films police. (some posters think its me)
He has been arrested 5 times on CA pc148 charges while filming and so far 4 have been dismissed or fail to file.
Todays court appearance is for his last remaining charge.
I had filed the necessary papers 2 weeks ahead of time for permission to film the trial. I was denied.
When we entered court today there were 3 cases ahead of ours. We had just sat down and my friend noticed a police officer from a jurisdiction that he films a lot and has won two lawsuits against for illegal arrests.
About 10 seconds after we sit down, the police officer who is sitting 3 rows in front of us is talking to the bailiffs and he says loud enough for everyone to hear "that's Daniel saulmon, he makes his living suing police and being a parasite".
My friend tells him to shut up and mind his own business. The cop turns back to him and says "we are in a courtroom now and you cant film and put me on the internet so i'll say whatever I want to you. YOU shut up".
At that point my friend and the cop start to argue and exchange insults. Believe it or not, the bailiffs told the cop to be quite and respect the court !!!
There was a break in the court proceedings so everyone went outside in the hallway and the cop starts in again with my friend and they almost come to blows.
The whole time the cops kept ranting about how my friend is a wuss when he cant film people and too bad they are in a court room where he cant film.
The joke is going to be on the cop though because the courtroom has security cameras all over so we filed a public records request for them.
The government doesn't want you to know what goes on in their extortion chambers.
Today I went to court with a friend who routinely films police. (some posters think its me)
He has been arrested 5 times on CA pc148 charges while filming and so far 4 have been dismissed or fail to file.
Todays court appearance is for his last remaining charge.
I had filed the necessary papers 2 weeks ahead of time for permission to film the trial. I was denied.
When we entered court today there were 3 cases ahead of ours. We had just sat down and my friend noticed a police officer from a jurisdiction that he films a lot and has won two lawsuits against for illegal arrests.
About 10 seconds after we sit down, the police officer who is sitting 3 rows in front of us is talking to the bailiffs and he says loud enough for everyone to hear "that's Daniel saulmon, he makes his living suing police and being a parasite".
My friend tells him to shut up and mind his own business. The cop turns back to him and says "we are in a courtroom now and you cant film and put me on the internet so i'll say whatever I want to you. YOU shut up".
At that point my friend and the cop start to argue and exchange insults. Believe it or not, the bailiffs told the cop to be quite and respect the court !!!
There was a break in the court proceedings so everyone went outside in the hallway and the cop starts in again with my friend and they almost come to blows.
The whole time the cops kept ranting about how my friend is a wuss when he cant film people and too bad they are in a court room where he cant film.
The joke is going to be on the cop though because the courtroom has security cameras all over so we filed a public records request for them.
The government doesn't want you to know what goes on in their extortion chambers.