As longtime Reason readers are aware, police officers often don’t like to be filmed by the public.
Recently, an officer in Pennsylvania got so fed up with being recorded that he drove his car on the sidewalk and threatened to run over a civilian, for the offense of filming on public property.
Between 2015 and 2021, the city of Allentown, Pennsylvania, paid out more than $2 million to settle 14 cases of excessive force by the police. Some of those cases involved police hostility to civilians doing nothing more than filming…