What Police Learned from Rodney King

They learned to have their friends at the prosecutor’s office pros­e­cute peo­ple who video them behav­ing badly. This was after dash­board cams were removed for bud­getary reasons…

[Note, in this case the police offi­cer seems to have acted appropriately.]

That Anthony Graber broke the law in early March is indis­putable. He raced his Honda motor­cy­cle down Interstate 95 in Maryland at 80 mph, pop­ping a wheelie, roar­ing past cars and swerv­ing across traf­fic lanes.
Anthony Graber was arrested for post­ing a video of his traf­fic stop on YouTube.

But it wasn’t his dare­devil stunt that has the 25-year-old staff sergeant for the Maryland Air National Guard fac­ing the pos­si­bil­ity of 16 years in prison. For that, he was issued a speed­ing ticket. It was the video that Graber posted on YouTube one week later — taken with his hel­met cam­era — of a plain­clothes state trooper cut­ting him off and draw­ing a gun dur­ing the traf­fic stop near Baltimore.

In early April, state police offi­cers raided Graber’s par­ents’ home in Abingdon, Md. They con­fis­cated his cam­era, com­put­ers and exter­nal hard dri­ves. Graber was indicted for allegedly vio­lat­ing state wire­tap laws by record­ing the trooper with­out his consent.

Read the rest of the arti­cle on ABC News.

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