New Louisiana Law Serves as a Warning to Bystanders Who Film Police: Stay Away or Face Arrest
www.propublica.org
Louisiana is the fourth state to enact a so-called police buffer law, which allows officers to order people to keep their distance. Journalists say the law will make it harder to document when police use excessive force.
  • Beaver [she/her]@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 months ago

    The republicans in court are going to use the “but the camera is too far away to able to identify police abuse”

    • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
      13·
      4 months ago

      Which is combined with the regular “you don’t know what happened before filming” is even worse.