Police Officer Arrest Woman in Her Front Yard for Filming the Cops
The cops noticed her recording and started hassling her with absurd notions. “I don’t feel safe with you standing behind me, so I’m going to ask you to go into your house,” the cop said. “You seem very anti-police … due to what you said to me before you started taping me.” It is not clear what she said before she started recording, but if she said anything threatening, they would have arrested her at that moment. She ended up getting handcuffed and taken away after she refused to walk into her house, even though she was clearly on her own property. A friend or relative ended up taking the camera and we see her being led away. Neighbors who witnessed the interaction confirmed she had done nothing wrong. Meanwhile, the man they had originally handcuffed was released.
Raw Story: Woman arrested for videotaping traffic stop from her front yard - A 28-year-old woman has been charged with obstructing governmental administration after refusing a police officer’s order to leave her front yard while she was videotaping a traffic stop. WHEC-TV reported that Emily Good of Rochester, New York filmed the police officers while they were conducting a traffic stop in front of her home. Good's videotape shows the officers telling her that they feel threatened by her standing behind them because she seemed "very anti-police." An officer then asked her to go into her house, an order which she refused. After briefly arguing about Good's right to be in her lawn, the officers warned her that if she continued to refuse they would arrest her. She continued to argue, and was then handcuffed and arrested. Good, who was previously arrested with others in March for trying to block a local home foreclosure, said she was filming the traffic stop because she was concerned about what's happening in her neighborhood. Good's attorney, Stephanie Stare, has filed a motion to have the misdemeanor charge of obstructing governmental administration thrown out. “Basically the grounds for the motion to dismiss are that her actions did not rise to the level of a crime," she said. "It doesn't fit the statutory elements of obstructing governmental administration."