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A Miami journalist has recovered video of police officers arresting him after it was deleted from his camera. The man was covering a police effort to evict Occupy Miami protestors. He plans to file a complaint with the police department and with the United States Department of Justice.

Daily News @ http://RevolutionNews.US - Milwaukee Police Officer Joseph Anderer did not want any recording of his colleagues ticketing a victim who was broadsided April 52011 by a speeding police car that exited an alley without stopping.

So he twisted the camera from reporter Geoff Davidian's hand, breaking the lens.

...Anderer said, "You reporters never tell the truth." So we'll let the camera do the talking in this video.

Despite the TSA admitting on its own website that there is no law which prevents people from filming TSA checkpoints, a man traveling through San Juan airport in Puerto Rico had his camera confiscated and footage deleted.

I understand that there re many complaints about how the police react to people using cameras to record their actions, but you need to understand what goes through distorted mind.
To you and any other normal person, you are simply being peaceful and recording them using a non threatening camera.
To the police officer, they see an object containing glass, circuits, plastic, aluminum, steel, and death. And thus they get scared and conferscate your cameras and put you in a cage.

On Monday, April 16th New Hampshire Journalist and Super Activist Jason Talley stared down the state. Facing two years in jail for bringing a camera into a Keene courthouse, Talley refused to accept any plea deal insisting upon fighting both the charges and the legitimacy of the ban. Then, after the jury was already selected and his trial was moments from beginning, the judge suddenly and unexpectedly came to his senses and dismissed the charges against him.

Apple recently registered a patent for a device that would prevent an iPhone's camera from working upon transmission of an infrared beam. Ostensibly this is to prevent unlicensed recordings of live concerts and other events, but it's easy to guess at an even worse application: Police using this technology to prevent "illegal" photography of their activities. The moral is clear: If you want to be able to use your own camera, wherever you want, don't buy an iPhone!

FTA: "In the video, Flint Farmer was lying on the grass between the curb and the sidewalk. It was shortly before 2 a.m. on a June morning in the West Englewood neighborhood, and Farmer had been shot by a Chicago police officer. Then, according to the video, the veteran officer, Gildardo Sierra, stepped onto the parkway and walked a semicircle about the prone Farmer as three bright flashes went off. The flashes, captured by a police car video camera, were fatal shots fired into Farmer's back, officials say.

Minutes after a suburban Chicago police officer was charged with striking a motorist with his baton, prosecutors handed out copies of a video showing the beating — taken by a dashboard camera on the officer's own squad car.

British police stopped a photographer for taking pictures of a highly-sensitive, and top secret Christmas bagpipe parade. When police agreed that he didn't have to provide ID, the police changed their story and claimed that taking photos of a parade was antisocial. [summary lifted from slashdot]