Met Police ‘banned man from Shoreditch’ after he filmed officer’s stop and search

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  1. It does read like *John* is being a pest and getting in the way. If you’re *known to police* in any way you’re getting something wrong.

  2. Filming is recommended.

    Met police have a terrible reputation.

    Planting stuff isn’t beyond them, and they know it.

    This ban is not in their powers to do.

  3. There’s clearly a lot more to this. No context and no side of the story from the Met.

    Police are filmed day in, day out.

    I’d imagine he was interfering and being a pest to the point of obstruction.

  4. Public filming is completely legal, otherwise CCTV would not exist.

    Yet another story showing police that don’t know the laws they’re supposed to be policing against.

  5. There is a thing by Youtubers called auditing. Basically they go around public places including police stations, knowing that the law allows you to film with a camera and film the police coming and going. If the force is aware of said auditors, they will be polite and let the person carry-on (often they just get bored and leave) or come on heavy handed and try and argue with the person filming (much to the auditors delight). The auditors do it specifically to get a rise out of the police to catch their reactions on film.

  6. It’s about time they passed a law that all police officers must wear body cameras. A company like GoPro can make 2 lens systems with 2 separated batteries and controllers with 2 sd card slots, meaning that no officer could ever claim device failure.
    And any arrests or fines made that did not have the video files attached would result in the case being dropped.
    Get enough dropped cases, you get fired. Boom solved
    Police bellendness

  7. So they detained (because its a restriction of liberty) someone filming a stop and search that’s being carried out in public. When the law allows you to film in public, and officer in question has no powers to issue a ban of that nature.

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