{"id":16945,"date":"2015-04-24T12:28:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T17:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16945"},"modified":"2015-04-24T12:44:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T17:44:15","slug":"marshall-project-why-cops-arent-ready-for-their-close-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16945","title":{"rendered":"Marshall Project: Why Cops Aren\u2019t Ready for Their Close-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall Project: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarshallproject.org\/2015\/04\/24\/why-cops-aren-t-ready-for-their-close-up?utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=newsletter&#038;utm_source=opening-statement&#038;utm_term=newsletter-20150424-166\">Why Cops Aren\u2019t Ready for Their Close-Up<\/a> by Alysia Santo:<\/p>\n<p>A police officer makes the case for keeping your distance.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In March, State Rep. Jason Villalba (R-Texas), filed a bill that would have made it a misdemeanor for anyone but news media to photograph police within 25 feet (and anyone with a concealed handgun to photograph within 100 feet). <\/p>\n<p>Villalba had introduced the legislation after members of Texas law enforcement expressed their concerns about the growing, national effort among activists \u2014 who call themselves \u201ccop watchers\u201d or \u201ccop blockers\u201d \u2014 to monitor police behavior by filming their every move. Police officers throughout the country have had mixed reactions to the increased use of cell phones to record their activities; some have even resorted to confiscating cameras and deleting footage. On April 19, a video was uploaded to YouTube that purportedly shows a U.S. Marshal slamming a woman\u2019s phone onto the ground and kicking it after she attempted to record her interaction with officers.<\/p>\n<p>Villalba\u2019s bill was ultimately dropped last week amid criticism that it violated First Amendment rights. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall Project: Why Cops Aren\u2019t Ready for Their Close-Up by Alysia Santo: A police officer makes the case for keeping your distance. In March, State Rep. Jason Villalba (R-Texas), filed a bill that would have made it a misdemeanor for &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16945\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16947,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16945\/revisions\/16947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}