hat tip to alex constantine for the following links & leads...
ny state police conduct illegal search for video of flight 3407 crash & illegally confiscate camera
from alex constantine: This story is a bit sketchy, IMhO - obvious questions are left hanging by the reporter, to wit:
• Why didn't the police obtain a search warrant before entering John's home and frantically searching for the camera?
• The police claimed that John was on a nearby roof, allegedly accompanied by a 13-year-old boy, taping the wreckage safely beyond the police perimeter. Officials claimed that he shouldn't have been on the roof with a minor. All right. Was this such a deplorable "crime" that they went ballistic, immediately launched into an illegal search for the tape - to "prove" the boy had been on the roof? This is the stated reason for confiscating the video camera. And it's nonsensical - did it occur to these highly-trained law enforcement officials that an illegally-obtained video tape is inadmissible as evidence - the very reason given for confiscating John's camera in the first place?
Or ...
Did the police have ulterior motives for scrambling after the video camera, Delta Force-style ...
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