17.01.2010:  Videos mit dem Handy sind "unerlaubte elektronische Überwachung"

Videos von Polizeiaktion aufnehmen kann gefährlich sein.

"Die Polizei mag keine Zeugen für ihr Handeln in der Öffentlichkeit".

"The police apparently do not want witnesses to what they do in public," said Sarah Wunsch, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts.

Simon Glik, a lawyer, was walking down Tremont Street in Boston when he saw three police officers struggling to extract a plastic bag from a teenager’s mouth. Thinking their force seemed excessive for a drug arrest, Glik pulled out his cellphone and began recording.

Within minutes he said, "my phone was seized, and I was arrested."

The charge? Illegal electronic surveillance.

Jon Surmacz, 34, experienced a similar situation. Thinking that Boston police officers were unnecessarily rough while breaking up a holiday party in Brighton he was attending in December 2008, he took out his cellphone and began recording.

Police confronted Surmacz, a webmaster at Boston University. He was arrested and, like Glik, charged with illegal surveillance.

Mehr dazu bei http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/01/12/police_fight_cellphone_recordings/