16 Years in Prison for a Video of a Police Officer Acting Nutty?
It happened to Anthony Graber, a Maryland Air National Guard staff sergeant. What did he do? He posted a video of actions by an arresting Maryland highway patrolman.
Here is what the trooper did. He was in an unmarked car. He cut off Graber, who was on a motorcycle. Then he approached Graber in plain clothes. He had pulled out a gun. He was yelling.
This was before he identified himself as a law-enforcement officer.
Graber had a camera in his motorcycle helmet. He posted the video on YouTube.
The police later raided his home. They seized his computers.
Then they locked him up for 26 hours.
Then they took him to court.
They have accused him of wiretapping. Maximum sentence: 16 years.
Wiretapping? What wires?
The video constitutes a wire. Here is how the government argues. The audio aspect of a video violates the wiretap law.
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- cowboy 2012/06/22 12:58:25
Wow. Third Reich?reply - ProudProgressive 2012/06/21 19:01:44+2Don't faint, but I agree with you on this one. I believe the public has every right to make whatever audio or video recordings they choose to if they are in a public place and there is no obvious danger. I might make an exception if someone's running around videoing small children or something like that, but the police are public employees, and the public has every right to record them when they are in a public place like a highway.reply
- say what? 2012/06/21 18:48:52+1There are so many laws on the books that if the cops want you they will get you one way or the other.reply
- Grabitz 2012/06/21 18:41:39What ever , the guy was reaching super sonic speeds in the vid . If he would have killed someone then you all would be asking why the officer did nothing . Fail because I don't feel sorry for the cyclist because he was a menace on the highways that could have possibly taken a life .
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