With what? That phone that just got knocked to the ground? Or that phone you can't operate while you're handcuffed or busy trying to breath gravel?
You do need the right to film yourself, but there is no valid rationale for limiting it to yourself, making it so that your defense is entirely your responsibility and if you fail to film yourself for any of the imfinite reasons that can happen, you're out of luck.
It just doesn't hold water. All this does is gives cops something they can threaten bystanders with on the spot, which will work on most people most of the time.
When they go home and google about it later and figure out that actually they could have filmed, or it would just be a harmless fine they would have been willing to risk, the damage is already done. You can't go back and collect the evidense after the fact, and most people don't have repeated incidents with police that are bad enough they would even feel a need to film. That one incident was probably all they may ever have, and they didn't film that one.
So the technicalities don't excuse this. Police have a goal that they don't have the right to actually mandate (don't film me while I'm operating on behalf of the state), and this rule doesn't technically mandate it, yet still achieves that goal anyway.
You do need the right to film yourself, but there is no valid rationale for limiting it to yourself, making it so that your defense is entirely your responsibility and if you fail to film yourself for any of the imfinite reasons that can happen, you're out of luck.
It just doesn't hold water. All this does is gives cops something they can threaten bystanders with on the spot, which will work on most people most of the time.
When they go home and google about it later and figure out that actually they could have filmed, or it would just be a harmless fine they would have been willing to risk, the damage is already done. You can't go back and collect the evidense after the fact, and most people don't have repeated incidents with police that are bad enough they would even feel a need to film. That one incident was probably all they may ever have, and they didn't film that one.
So the technicalities don't excuse this. Police have a goal that they don't have the right to actually mandate (don't film me while I'm operating on behalf of the state), and this rule doesn't technically mandate it, yet still achieves that goal anyway.