{"id":53442,"date":"2022-10-27T18:45:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T23:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53442"},"modified":"2022-10-27T18:45:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T23:45:51","slug":"courthouse-news-service-right-to-livestream-traffic-stops-debated-at-fourth-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53442","title":{"rendered":"Courthouse News Service: Right to livestream traffic stops debated at Fourth Circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Courthouse News Service: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/right-to-livestream-traffic-stops-debated-at-fourth-circuit\/\">Right to livestream traffic stops debated at Fourth Circuit<\/a> by Erika Williams (\u201cA shouting match erupted between a judge and an attorney at a hearing over whether passengers in cars pulled over by police can broadcast their encounters with officers.\u201d):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit heard lively arguments Thursday over whether officers have the right to prevent passengers from livestreaming traffic stops.<\/p><p>Dijon Sharpe was riding in a car that was pulled over in Winterville, North Carolina, in 2018 when he decided to broadcast the police interaction in real time on Facebook Live.<\/p><p>According to a nine-page complaint he filed in federal court the following year, \u201cSharpe is a Black male who records and broadcasts his interactions with law enforcement for his own protection.\u201d<\/p><p>Sharpe says his First Amendment rights were violated when he was physically attacked by a Winterville officer after disclosing he was livestreaming the stop, and when he was threatened with arrest by another officer if he attempted to broadcast such interactions in the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courthouse News Service: Right to livestream traffic stops debated at Fourth Circuit by Erika Williams (\u201cA shouting match erupted between a judge and an attorney at a hearing over whether passengers in cars pulled over by police can broadcast their &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53442\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrest-or-entry-on-arrest","category-privileges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53443,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53442\/revisions\/53443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}