The Sandusky Register wrote a piece on the right to film police. You can read the full story here. When Register reporter Emil Whitis was shooting photos at a Florence Township home during a drug raid last month, FBI agents threatened to take away his camera if he didn’t stop taking pictures. As long as [...]
This was sent to us by our friend Gunner. It’s an account of the turning point that sent him from being a citizen who knew his rights to a champion of liberty and police accountability -Kayne This is my story of how I, a peaceful man, was arrested. You can judge for yourself as to [...]
Toledo Ohio, US district court magistrate James Knepp II has given a recommendation to court to have a police brutality case dismissed. The lawsuit was filed by, Norwalk resident, Mimi Lee Against the Norwalk Police Department stemming from a 2009 arrest. The Magistrate argues that the claim of police brutality was filed to late and [...]
Canton Ohio police officer Daniel Harless looses control when, after pulling him over, William E. Bartlett failed to notify the officer that he is legally carrying a concealed weapon. The officer repeatedly tells Bartlett to be quite and stay in the car and thus prevents him the opportunity to inform the officer of his conceal carry status. When [...]
After accepting a plea deal, former OU student, James Wagers, was sentenced to 90 days in jail for negligent homicide of another OU student, Eric Hansen. Wagers was found guilty after selling psylocibin mushrooms to Hansen an hour before Hansen leaped or fell from a fourth floor dormitory window. There seams to be no solid [...]
During a town hall meeting in North Avondale Ohio US Congressman Steve Chabot ordered all cameras be banned from the event, and those with cameras had them confiscated. Of course this order only applied to the many protesters who gathered at the meeting and not to the members of the mainstream media. During the meeting [...]
In a clear victory for police accountability, Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGrath was told by Safety Director Martin Flask, to draft a new policy and release a memo to his officers stating that people must be allowed to film, photograph, and audio record police officers and their activities in public so long as they do not [...]
Welcome to OhioCopBlock.org. This is a site/blog that is run by a decentralized group of free individuals who oppose injustices of the law and its enforcement and are committed to promoting police accountability across the state of Ohio. We oppose the injustice of holding police to a different standard than other individuals. Every day we see police getting away with theft, [...]
Nothing here is by any means a requirement but just some good tips on how to make your interactions with police as simple and safe as possible. Film everything. Keep a calm tone. Speak slowly and clearly. Your words and actions are going to make a cop tense. Don’t make it worse by ranting or [...]
Why do we engage in noncooperation and video record police as a form of activism? We do this to raise awareness about peoples rights and to shine the light of a camera on the absurdity and violence of the law enforcement system. Police do not deserve more rights than you. Public officials do not have an [...]
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