Makes me proud to work for this govt... Not.
This is why the military is not allowed to participate in law enforcement... Some military folks I know would have intervened in favor of the protestor even if she was a nutter and was probably verbally abusive to the SS thug... er "homeland security detective". Requiring citizens to avert one's eyes from our secret police is not a legitimate homeland defense measure.
And the detective even admitted that he wanted to protect the busted identity of his undercover vehicle... Barney Fife would be embarassed. When you're so incompetent that you blow the cover of your undercover car in the middle of the damn street near a protest, you find another car. Established law has strong precedent that for citizens, there is no assumption of privacy for objects or acts that are out in public. A car parked in the street occupied by a dude taking pictures is public information. There can't be any other interpretation without imposing a radical police state where we must treat any official car or person as invisible. What's next... A cop shoots a dude for no reason, and we must ignore the shooting because the cop wishes to protect his undercover status? If the protestor had refused to be arrested, would she have been shot to protect the identy of that undercover license plate?
A quote from the article:
As for Caitlin Childs' protest against meat eating, the files obtained by the ACLU include the DeKalb County Homeland Security report on the surveillance of Childs and the others. The detective wrote that he ordered Childs to give him the piece of paper on which she had written his license tag number, telling her that he did not want her or anyone else to have the tag number of his undercover vehicle.
The detective did not comment in his report about why his license tag number was already visible to the public.
They know they're wrong but they're SS goons and therefore have no accountability. ACHTUNG!
