That confrontation, filmed in 2009, was the first of dozens that Hammonds and three friends caught on tape. They’ve paid dearly, spending thousands on legal fees and tickets, and sleeping multiple nights in county lockup. They’ve even seen their faces plastered on a warning flyer sent to departments around Miami-Dade County.
They’re part of a simmering national fight between citizen journalists and police departments that believe subjects have no right to film them. The battle over whether cops can arrest you just for videotaping them is quickly becoming the most hotly contested corner of American civil liberties law — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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