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Snap a picture and get arrested? It just happened to Philadelphia’s Neffy Cruz. According to this report, Cruz was arrested, cuffed and hauled off to jail for the despicable act of snapping a picture of the police with his cell phone camera:
There are also a couple of good comments after the article, I would like to address part of one of them:
The police have enough to worry about when they are making an arrest. (regardless of the views of whether drugs should be legal, they currently aren’t). Obviuosly this person was thought dangerous or possibly armed or that size of force would not have been utilized. Not only are they worrying about thier safety but now they have to worry about some camera happy dolt.
Since when is it the job of the police to protect someone who makes the (possibly) stupid choice to stick their nose into a potentially hazardous situation? It is their job to enforce the law, not to protect the public from themselves. Now, enforcing the law should not put innocents in danger, so conducting a SWAT style raid on a public residence should really be out of the question unless you have evacuated the entire neighborhood. Perhaps making that a requirement would reduce the occurances of said raids.