Memphis pig thug cops delete journalist’s photos from cell phone camera!
MEMPHIS, Tennessee (PNN) - January 31, 2012 - The problem with mainstream media is that too many reporters don’t know the actual law when it comes to pig thug cops confiscating cameras or deleting photos.
Furthermore, they seem to think the only way to find out what the law is to ask those same pig thug cops.
Take the recent case of Memphis pig thug cops confiscating a cell phone from an ABC news photographer and deleting his photos after he snapped shots of them issuing a parking ticket to a local business owner.
The writer of the story suggests that this is common practice and warns readers that this could happen to them, which is actually true, as unlawful as it may be.
The writer also contacted an attorney who said that pig thug cops are not allowed to delete your photos.
But the writer still didn’t appear convinced.
Maybe I’m reading too much into this but I wish she would have been a little more authoritative with this story rather than take a passive approach, which doesn’t do much to educate citizens or cops on the actual law.
It’s not an opinion. Pig thug cops cannot delete your photos. So she shouldn’t treat it as if it was an opinion.
Fortunately, the National Press Photographers Association is not treating it as an opinion; they it fired off a letter to Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong, informing him that the incident was a “blatant abridgement of (the photographer’s) First and Fourth Amendment rights.”
Meanwhile, the ABC reporter is still waiting for Armstrong to confirm whether or not it is legal for pig thug cops to delete footage.
We already know it's illegal. What we need to do is ask Armstrong how he plans to deal with the pig thug cops who broke the law.