Can I record police officers performing their duties in public?
You are perfectly within your rights to videotape police officers in public, from a distance in which you are not interfering with their duties. In some places you may be forbidden to make an audio record, however. But I strongly recommend that you have multiple people with you, and that at least one person’s camera is hidden, if possible, so that when an officer kicks the shit out of you – and if you tape enough of them, one will – you have proof that you didn’t just clumsily trip into the officer’s baton then grab his pepper spray and apply it directly to your cornea with a q-tip.
