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Ha! That won't stop the great city of Chicago from arresting you and throwing you in the slammer.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm294TYqh6o

... And there are plenty more stories where that came from.

You could surely get around this by announcing loudly to the cop prior to every interaction that this is a public situation and there is no privacy to be found here... as proven by the existence of this camera crew and microphone.

Tell that to the 98% of people who will "surely" have never heard of this and think, reasonably, that recording a cop won't put them in jail.

Why would we tell the 2% that already know they can film the police? :P

Of course we want to tell the 98% they are free to film as well! But I take your point.

The former story, about Tiawanda Moore, concerns someone who was acquitted ~4 years ago, and is now (justifiably!) suing the city.

The latter concerns someone who was not arrested.

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