Opinion: Challenges lie ahead in upholding citizens’ right to record protests and police actions

Even with the recent Justice Department letter to the Baltimore Police Department asserting the rights of citizens to film police in action, much more needs to be done, writes Josh Stearns for MediaShift.

Even after instructed to do otherwise last November, New York police arrested 20 journalists in December and prevented others from doing their job covering protests. -db

From a commentary for MediaShift, May 29, 2012, by Josh Stearns.

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