Arizona marshal disciplined after he threatened to arrest a 12-year-old journalist

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hill

An Arizona law enforcement official has reportedly been disciplined after he was caught on camera threatening to arrest a 12-year-old reporter this week.

Hilde Lysiak is a young journalist who publishes the Orange Street News out of her parents’ home in Selinsgrove, Pa.


The preteen was in the small-town of Patagonia, Ariz., on Monday when she was confronted by Joseph Patterson, the town marshal, The Washington Post reported.

Lysiak caught the official, whose position is equivalent to a police chief, falsely claiming that it was illegal for her to film him and publish his face online.

Read more: https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/431153-arizona-marshal-disciplined-after-he-threatened-to-arrest-a-12

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[RKP5637]

1. Another authoritarian cop. n/t

[LongtimeAZDem]

2. Idiot

[ROB-ROX]

3. THIS YELLOW TURD SHOULD BE FIRED

This NUT should not have a gun nor a badge. I hope the people in this town get the balls to fire this YELLOW TURD......Threatening a little girl and blocking her constitutional rights is WRONG......

[oldsoftie]

4. Sad when the child is more of an adult than the actual adult.

[knightmaar]

5. Lying to a police officer isn't illegal

... and lying to a 12 year old about her rights, under colour of law, seems a lot worse.

[BamaRefugee]

6. technically, in a lot of circumstances, it is illegal, but this is ridiculous, there was the 11 year

boy too the other day.
Trump must have told his cronies that the next hot investment is private Children's Prisons

[DirtEdonE]

7. I wholeheartedly disagree

This is pretty much settled law, so far. Police who stop you from filming them are the ones breaking the law.

It turns out that claiming people have no right to privacy in a public place is a double-edged sword.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glik_v._Cunniffe

https://www.aclupa.org/issues/policepractices/your-right-record-and-observe-police/taking-photos-video-and-audio

[BamaRefugee]

8. You're disagreeing on a completely different topic. I was responding to "it's not illegal to lie"

not to anything about filming

[DirtEdonE]

9. Sorry, my bad

I thought you were talking about illegally recording an officer.