A concerned citizen, Jeremy Orr, video tapes a cop named James Cousins Jr. who is in a public place ridiculing and mocking crime victims. He posts it to youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lle4Jou8-9s

The video becomes a concern for Erie's police department. Police Chief Steve Franklin assigns internal-affairs Inspector James DeDionisio to resolve the problem, and specifically tells him to make the video go away.

Guilty cop James Cousins Jr and internal-affairs Inspector James DeDionisio then form a posse and go visit Jeremy Orr at work. They threaten and intimidate him. They say if he doesn't take down the video documenting the abusive cop behavior, they will have him put in prison for illegal wiretapping.

Of course illegal wiretapping doesn't apply here since he didn't tap a wire and only recorded activity IN A PUBLIC PLACE.

Article covering this: http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090418/NEWS02/304169841

Oh, this reminds me of the girl who outted the pedophile principal. The TRUTH doesn't matter, all that matters is THOSE WITH POWER intimidating those who speak truth to power.

The real problem here is that the public doesn't rise up in revolt to out these corrupt officials. Instead the public says, "Well, he should have obeyed the police." and "Well, she should not have disrespected the principal because god puts those in authority above us and the book of Romans says that disobedience of any authority is disobedience to god."

And then anyone who is sane or has compassion or a thirst for justice says "Those christians are bad people."

saw it on reddit.com
bad cop

Bad cop sure, but what about bad police chief and bad internal affairs investigator? What the FUCK is an internal affairs investigator doing teaming up with the cop he is investigating to go intimidate and threaten the person who reported the cop's bad behavior in the first place? And what the FUCK is with the police chief being the one that ordered it all to happen?

One of the comments points out that the other cop there who is a friend of first cop is wearing a "88" cap, which is unequivocally means he is a member of a neo-nazi white supremacist organization.

http://www.adl.org/hate_symbols/numbers_88.asp

Whoa, I say, hold on, son. RTA.

Jeremy Orr is (I hope) now safely out of reach in Briz, Oz. It's his family back in Erie who are being hassled by the LEOs.

This is deliciously similar to the yank posting video of the cop in London beating down a protestor who subsequently died.

"Can't touch me! Neenaa! Brrrrrrrppppppp!"  would be an appropriate response if you believe cops can take the flak and deal appropriately with the drunken copper.

Sadly I forsee extra time spent in airport terminals as the state inspects departing tourists' video equipment looking for and confiscating that used by violators of brand new security regulations.

OK, I see. He is a Australian citizen who posted it, and then returned to Brisbane, so the internal affairs investigator, knowing this, tracked down his family members in the US and started intimidating THEM.

That's pretty fucking nefarious.

"I forsee extra time spent in airport terminals as the state inspects departing tourists' video equipment looking for and confiscating that used by violators of brand new security regulations."

This is why I have a separate laptop for traveling and only walk through illegal police interrogation points (airports etc) with a fresh OS install.

Files you need should be burned to DVD, mailed to yourself, a separate encrypted copy carried only if necessary, and any files made in transit uploaded encrypted to secure sites on the internet.

Uhuh. Video equipment (and printers) brand content with their seial number.

"Hmm, seems this unit recorded prohibited content during your stay - please fill out this form and take a seat - no, no, you don't get it back."

?

I admit I was running away a bit there.

Most digital images are watermarked but I doubt if the steganography would survive compression.

The Brits proposed internet recordkeeping may provide a circumstantial trail (to be used only against spies and terrying of course, not tourists caught up in state  embarrassment, no, not at all ... ).

I'm not following your line there.

The idea is vacation photos you take on the trip are encrypted. Upload them to your web server, and email yourself the randomly generated password using your PGP public key. The private key is ONLY on your computer at home, so even if they get the email, or demand a password from you, you don't have it.

I'm referring to a foreign tourist's images uploaded to public locations on the web (Utube et al) being traced to his equipment before (or as) he leaves the offended country allowing Plod to provide some grief to the putative offender.

"Yep, the serial # matches that in the Brighton HobbyBobby video - GOTCHA!"

Oh OK. Well I haven't had the chance to do a wikileaks sort of thing, all I do is upload content to the server just so that my laptop will be completely clean when clearing checkpoints. Not that I have any contraband info, it's just that my vacation shots and business documents are absolutely none of their business.

If I did have a expose film of police abuse, I wouldn't reveal its location before I left the police state.

Also, with youtube and stuff I thought they stripped all that stuff out. Do video cameras really stamp things with a serial number? What models?

Oh dear, I do have to up my paranoia medication and have a lie down.

Seems it's colour laser printers that sneakily watermark the image. Cameras aren't there quite yet, or if they do it's a big secret.

;)

Not all laser printers do that though. There are lists that document this.

We use only "clean" laser printers in our business.