Chapter 15 The Law

David Weintraub

Instructor, Visual Communications Sequence, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of South Carolina

DOI: 10.4324/9780240814667-15

Covering the Police in Action. Police use pepper spray to keep protesters from crossing a line at California State University, Northridge, during a demonstration against the appearance of former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke. In the United States you can legally film the police or anyone else, even when they are making an arrest, as long as you are in a public place such as sidewalk, street, or park.

(Pete Erickson, Golden Gater, San Francisco State University) ...

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