CBS: Maryland RB Wes Brown charged with assault, theft and wiretapping

[bnoro]

well I was figuring he meant things like this.



It happens where criminal wait for the cop to approach and unload and speed off. Youtube has lots of dash cam footage of this.

We don't hear about the innocents that get shot by a cop because they did something like get out of their car during a traffic stop. Those dash cams never see the light of day.

I've never gotten out of my car at a traffic stop, there's no reason to. I'm sure you haven't either. Not sure why you'd need to. If you're that anti-police that you use that example, i don't know what to tell you.

 

[SWC75]

I remember when this made the national news:

 

[Rocco]

This thread took some bath salts, it's all screwed up now...

Brown ~ Snowden ~ traffic stop politics.

Just glad we missed out on this kid.

 

[Whitey23]

Case dropped against Maryland RB Brown

A Maryland athletics department spokesman said Brown's status was unchanged and he was still suspended by the university.

Brown was arrested near the campus in College Park this month after police said he assaulted an officer who was trying to question him about a non-fatal shooting in Baltimore. Police said at the time that Brown fled from the officer and used someone else's cell phone to secretly record his conversation with the officer.

But Erzen said the conversation was never actually recorded and that the phone wasn't stolen because Brown had given the owner collateral. He said prosecutors now believe Brown was resisting an unlawful arrest, as he was permitted to do, instead of illegally assaulting an officer.

"There's nowhere to go with this at this point. We don't believe after screening ... that any crimes were committed. We're not going with charges," Erzen said.

Jason Shapiro, a lawyer for Brown, said he would work to get Brown back in school and on the football team. He said there was never any basis for his client to be arrested and that he had done nothing wrong.

"They were placing him under arrest before he allegedly ever assaulted the police, recorded the police or stole anyone's cell phone," Shapiro said. "So what were they placing him under arrest for?"

A Baltimore police spokesman, Detective Jeremy Silbert, said Monday that Brown remains a person of interest in a non-fatal shooting in that city last month. Shapiro said his client was not at all a suspect and had no involvement in that case.

 

[IthacaMatt]

Wait, so if I record a police officer with my cell phone while they are in public it is a felony wiretapping charge?

Utter bullshit. Most states, including NYS, are single consent states, meaning that only 1 person has to consent to a conversation being recorded. On top of that, police officers are in plain view in public, which also shouldn't be against the law to tape, so long as you aren't physically interfering with their work. Making it illegal to record your interactions with an officer, when they are doing so to you, is something that we ought to banish from our law books.

 

[cuseincincy]

Case dropped against Maryland RB Brown

A Maryland athletics department spokesman said Brown's status was unchanged and he was still suspended by the university.

Brown was arrested near the campus in College Park this month after police said he assaulted an officer who was trying to question him about a non-fatal shooting in Baltimore. Police said at the time that Brown fled from the officer and used someone else's cell phone to secretly record his conversation with the officer.

But Erzen said the conversation was never actually recorded and that the phone wasn't stolen because Brown had given the owner collateral. He said prosecutors now believe Brown was resisting an unlawful arrest, as he was permitted to do, instead of illegally assaulting an officer.

"There's nowhere to go with this at this point. We don't believe after screening ... that any crimes were committed. We're not going with charges," Erzen said.

Jason Shapiro, a lawyer for Brown, said he would work to get Brown back in school and on the football team. He said there was never any basis for his client to be arrested and that he had done nothing wrong.

"They were placing him under arrest before he allegedly ever assaulted the police, recorded the police or stole anyone's cell phone," Shapiro said. "So what were they placing him under arrest for?"

A Baltimore police spokesman, Detective Jeremy Silbert, said Monday that Brown remains a person of interest in a non-fatal shooting in that city last month. Shapiro said his client was not at all a suspect and had no involvement in that case.

Hmmm. Well that paints a different picture. I did not know you were allowed to resist an unlawful arrest and am not sure I'd really recommend it. " Yes sir, no sir. May I speak with an attorney sir?"

 

[All4SU]

Since when does getting arrested, even wrongfully, give you the right to assault a police officer?

 

[BlazeOrange]

Case dropped against Maryland RB Brown

"They were placing him under arrest before he allegedly ever assaulted the police, recorded the police or stole anyone's cell phone," Shapiro said.

No way that quote could be misinterpreted out of context Mr. Shapiro.

 

[IthacaMatt]

Since when does getting arrested, even wrongfully, give you the right to assault a police officer?

When you don't know it's a police officer, perhaps. Say it's an off duty cop and you get into an argument in a bar.