Know the Law - Smarter Every Day 8

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·Nov 3, 2024

So a couple of days ago a guy named Chris was detained here in Baltimore, right here at the Cultural Center light rail station. Well, all he was doing was taking video of trains. It was his hobby. Why shouldn't he be able to do that?

"...that’s your story."

“So why don’t you have any signs posted to say I cannot take pictures?”

I'm on public property, and I'm just minding my own business here, waiting for the train to come pick me.

"Uh, am I being detained?"

"Yes, you are being detained. You're not under arrest, but you are being detained."

So I just want the opportunity to talk about the cops in Tuscaloosa right after the tornado. Our 2nd Amendment right is the right to bear arms. And so we had some looting. So I'll show you what the police down there did.

Chris was detained here in Baltimore, but in Alabama the cops actually encouraged us to use our weapons to defend our place.

"You might not be able to with the mag loaded all the way because what I happened to do is getting it about right there, pushing down."

"And get the lip forward click pretty cool."

When I called the police chief and said, "Hey, what's the deal? If I got some video, do I need to blot out the faces or anything like that?"

He said, "No, use anything you have." That's pretty impressive, so he's actually encouraging me to use my rights. That wasn't the case with Chris, so I hope our country is going more towards the direction of liberty than the opposite direction.

That's it. I hope you realize that if you don't use your freedom, they'll go away. In 1759, Benjamin Franklin said those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

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