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The NYPD knows that citizens have a First Amendment right to record cops on the street, but they keep busting amateur videographers anyway — and now one fed-up Queens man is looking to make an example of the practice.
Ruben An, 24, filed suit in Manhattan federal court Wednesday over his 2014 arrest for using his cellphone to document three cops rousting a man they found lying on a sidewalk near Astor Place.
But An doesn’t want money damages — just a judge’s ruling that his rights were violated, and a permanent injunction barring city employees from acting against anyone who “records or attempts to record police officers who are performing official duties in a public place.”
An’s two-minute video clip, filed along with his Manhattan federal court complaint, shows one of the cops accusing him of blocking the sidewalk, then grabbing and arresting An when he refuses to show ID.
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http://nypost.com/2016/07/06/man-arr...ops-sues-nypd/
You can watch the videos in the link above. Look at this officer abusing his powers
A mess.