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All the guy had to do was stop running,Lie on the ground and put his hands behind his head....
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Actually that's not true. The guy in today's video...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/10/us/cal...olice-beating/
...did exactly that and got sh't kicked within an inch of his life.
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First of all, this is pure speculation. You can't accuse people of doing things that never happened.
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It's a hypothetical question. People pose them all the time. What do you think the cop would have done if challenged? There are dozens of examples of this in Canada that are not hypothetical. Google and yee shall find. The point is, we know pretty much exactly what would have happened. And it's a violation of charter rights. I'm not interested in being an apologist in life.
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However, the police have rights too. You can't take away their right to ask things of people just because people have a tendency to take those requests as orders
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As long as you are not obstructing justice, there's never any reason what so ever for a cop to ask you to stop filming. It shouldn't happen because it is an abuse of authority. The philosophy should be and is becoming "Assume you're being filmed at all times and act accordingly." That's not too much to ask at all.
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However, if they captured any part of the offense or can be used as evidence, the grounds are there to seize the phone for evidence without warrant as it is in plain view.
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I think you have to be the person arrested for any warrentless seizure to occur.