Legal Opinion
Richard Fields v. City of Philadelphia
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided July 7, 2017No. 16-1650, 16-1651PublishedCited by 140 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
AMBRO, Circuit Judge
In 1991 George Holliday recorded video of the Los Angeles Police Department officers beating Rodney King and submitted it to the local news. Filming police on the job was rare then but common now. With advances in technology and the widespread ownership of smartphones, “civilian recording of police officers is ubiquitous.” Jocelyn Simonson, Copwatching, 104 Cal. L. Rev. 391, 408 (2016); see Seth F. Kreimer, Pervasive Image Capture and the First Amendment: Memory, Discourse, and the Right to Record, 159 U. Pa. L. Rev. 335, 337 (2011). These recordings…
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