A Penn State college senior was arrested after he pointed his camera cell phone at police activity in his neighborhood. A Philadelphia NBC News Channel 10 report says the family of Neftaly Cruz, 21, is claiming the cops had "no right to come onto their property and arrest their 21-year-old son simply because he was using his cell phone's camera."
Cruz had heard a commotion outside his parents' home and walked out the door to investigate it. When he saw the street lined with police, he flipped his phone open to take a picture. Within moments, an officer came to his back gate, put him into a police car, cuffed him and took him to jail. According to a neighbor's report, the cop spoke only once during this process, allegedly saying, "You should have just went [sic] in the house and minded your own business instead of trying to take pictures off your picture phone."
The college student was quoted saying, "They threatened to charge me with conspiracy, impeding an investigation, obstruction of a investigation..."
If this was the only problem America is having with its police, we would still have a growing police State. Imagine the audacity of the police arresting a young man for filming them. What are they afraid of? Obviously they do not want to be on prime time news for doing evil.
After the L.A. Police were caught on video brutalizing Rodney King, police everywhere have been camera shy. One day while the original mobile gospel billboard broadcasting truck was still in use, I was sitting in the parking lot of a restuarant with my video camera on a tripod sitting next to me in the front seat.
A patrol car came quickly out from behind the back of the restuarant heading directly toward me in an instant, but when they saw the camera pointed at them; they kept on going. It occurred to me they would rather face a gun than a video camera.
In arresting the young college student, the police showed themselves to be the law once again. The power delegated to law enforcement officers was never intended to be manipulated to help them cover their sins. "HE WHO COVERS HIS SINS SHALL NOT PROSPER."
There is your future America. The people you pay huge
salaries to protect are your enemies.
