Prosecutor (and Sheriff) Deserve a Round of Applause

[roo_ster]

http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/105355/

A deputy arrested a man for taking video of him while in the performance of his duty.

The prosecutor and the deputy's boss (the sheriff) said, "WTF?  That ain't illegal," cut the arrested guy loose, and launched an investigation into the deputy's actions and prior arrests due to the smell that arose form the deal.

It is the sheriff's and the prosecutor's position that "mo' video, mo' bettuh" because the vast majority of their deputies are squared away and do the job correctly and any video is likely to show that and exonerate the deputies.

Also note the last sentence.

[AZRedhawk44]

I, for one, welcome our camera-smashing overlords who use intimidation as a weapon.

Glad to hear there's a sheriff out there that has the sack to accept that public = public.

[cordex]

I was semi-lurking on another forum when the discussion of recording encounters with police on your cell phone came up.  One police officer indicated it was a bad idea because he felt cell phone guns were a serious threat.

Remember kinds, thousands of police die every year from exotic, James Bond gadgets.

[230RN]

Well, I've seen a video of a cell phone gun,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxIjkBVEtyE

But they're getting to be so thin nowadays that you'd be hard-pressed to fit anything other than 2.34 mm rounds in them.  Which might be distracting.  An officer might swat at the wound, thinking it was a mosquito bite.

http://www.swissminigun.ch/home.html

Ballistics (Or maybe I should say, "Bite-istics"):

http://www.swissminigun.ch/ammunition.html

I applaud the level-headed Sheriff and Proscutor and the folks who elected them.

Terry, 230RN

[White Horseradish]

An officer might swat at the wound, thinking it was a mosquito bite.

Nah, a properly trained officer would call in a swat team to do it for him. 

[sanglant]

Well, I've seen a video of a cell phone gun,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxIjkBVEtyE

But they're getting to be so thin nowadays that you'd be hard-pressed to fit anything other than 2.34 mm rounds in them.  Which might be distracting.  An officer might swat at the wound, thinking it was a mosquito bite.

http://www.swissminigun.ch/home.html

Ballistics (Or maybe I should say, "Bite-istics"):

http://www.swissminigun.ch/ammunition.html

I applaud the level-headed Sheriff and Proscutor and the folks who elected them.

Terry, 230RN

not that it would fire as a phone,,,,,
but couldn't we lay the handle and trigger mech flat, and make the barrel out of threaded peaces that would lay flat within the phone and make a nice 21/2 to 3 inch barreled 9mm?

sorry, just in one of those places.

[BReilley]

not that it would fire as a phone,,,,,
but couldn't we lay the handle and trigger mech flat, and make the barrel out of threaded peaces that would lay flat within the phone and make a nice 21/2 to 3 inch barreled 9mm?

sorry, just in one of those places.

Good heavens, imagine the recoil... can't imagine it would be at all difficult to rig - look at those single-shot palm-pistol things that have recently come out.  Now, the challenge would be to build it well enough to survive multiple shots... ugh.
By the way, love the reduced font size for the fraction

[Sergeant Bob]

By the way, love the reduced font size for the fraction

There is another, easier way to do it , it's "Alt 0189" (typing "0", "1", "8", "9" while holding down the "Alt" key) as in ½

See http://usefulshortcuts.com/downloads/ALT-Codes.pdf

[230RN]

Testing that

alt 242 (equal to or greater than symbol)



alt 14 (musical notes)

 

Nuthin'.  What's the trick?  (I typed the above in for readability, but held down the alt key and typed in 242 and 14)

(I took this to PM with Sergeant Bob to avoid further thread drift.)

[sanglant]

hold alt in.

edit in non geek: hold alt in, then press the number code on the number pad(thing like a calculator on the right edge of your keyboard[if you have a full size keyboard]) then release alt.

[230RN]

Did hold down alt, used number keys at top.  Retrying using numlock, number keypad:

♫  (Musical notes, did not work)

≥  (=> symbol worked OK)

Aha!  Thank you!

Ignore PM, Sergeant Bob. ◄  (Black left-arrow, alt-17, did not work)

What I usually do is google up a word with, say, the accent grav or an umlaut in it, then copy and paste it to my text.  Or the Euro symbol:  (€) <this one is by googling "euro symbol" and copying it from the wiki blurb on the euro symbol.)

Trying it with the alt-0128:

€

OK, that works.

'Bye for now.  And thanks for the information.  I'll test them out in a text processor rather than drifting away any more from the OP.

Terry, 230RN

[T.O.M.]

As to the OP, I have to agree that the last line really does say it all, that when a public official/LEO/Judge/mom or dad/any other living person, it just ain't newsworthy when they do their jobs the way they are supposed to. The right thing gets ignored as boringly pedestrian, yet you find one bad example (and God knows there are plenty), and it's a headline grabber that often makes anyone else in that occupation/position look bad by association.  It's too bad it has to be that way...

[Jamisjockey]

Now THAT is thread veer!

[Hawkmoon]

Back to the original topic, if we may: Does anyone know where this occurred? I think it would be a good idea for some of us to contact the sheriff and the prosecutor and thank them for being rational and standing up for fundamental civil rights.

[roo_ster]

Now THAT is thread veer!

APS at its best.

[vaskidmark]

Back to the original topic, if we may: Does anyone know where this occurred? I think it would be a good idea for some of us to contact the sheriff and the prosecutor and thank them for being rational and standing up for fundamental civil rights.

As the intro from the original article notes: 

A PROSECUTOR ON THE WAR AGAINST PHOTOGRAPHY: A reader who asks anonymity emails:

Don't think Insty is gonna reveal his source.

stay safe.

[230RN]

Yeah, sorry 'bout the thread veer, and I was well aware of it, but there's no place to test stuff.  End of subject, I hope.