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A police officer in Oakland, California played a song by Taylor Swift on his phone in an attempt to stop Black Lives Matter protesters from sharing footage of him on June 29, 2021. (Photo: Anti-Police Terror Project/screenshot)
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A police officer in Oakland, California played a song by Taylor Swift on his phone in an attempt to stop Black Lives Matter protesters from sharing footage of him on June 29, 2021. (Photo: Anti-Police Terror Project/screenshot)
A police officer's attempt to censor Black Lives Matter activists at an Oakland protest backfired Thursday, with a video of the officer's interaction with organizers going viral precisely because of his attempt to prevent them from uploading the video to YouTube by invoking copyright law and playing a pop song.
"People have the right to film the police, and efforts by the police to infringe on this right are unconstitutional." --Chessie Thacher, ACLU Northern California
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A police officer's attempt to censor Black Lives Matter activists at an Oakland protest backfired Thursday, with a video of the officer's interaction with organizers going viral precisely because of his attempt to prevent them from uploading the video to YouTube by invoking copyright law and playing a pop song.
"People have the right to film the police, and efforts by the police to infringe on this right are unconstitutional." --Chessie Thacher, ACLU Northern California
A police officer's attempt to censor Black Lives Matter activists at an Oakland protest backfired Thursday, with a video of the officer's interaction with organizers going viral precisely because of his attempt to prevent them from uploading the video to YouTube by invoking copyright law and playing a pop song.
"People have the right to film the police, and efforts by the police to infringe on this right are unconstitutional." --Chessie Thacher, ACLU Northern California