Arrested for filming a cop

Maryland, My California

“ A Harford County man now faces up to five years in prison after he recorded a bizarre traffic stop last month in Harford County. Anthony Graber was riding his motorcycle with a camera attached to his helmet recording his ride. It happened near the Riverside exit of I-95. A Maryland State trooper in an unmarked car pulled over Graber for speeding. The trooper is seen in a YouTube video that Graber posted, jumping out of the car and tells Graber "Get off the motorcycle, get off the motorcycle! Get off the motor cycle, State Police." The trooper is seen pulling his gun immediately after getting out of the unmarked car. It's not until five seconds after he exits the car that he identifies himself a Maryland State trooper. [channel 2 news] [tip from RAK] ”

Aside: When my son was about to buy his first car some years ago, I urged him to consider a used Mercedes in lieu of the 4x4 with spiked hair and piercings he was looking at.  He did, and purchased a Mercedes diesel that looked great, was built like a tank, and cheaper than what he was looking at.  Skip forward about three years. He is now a co-owner and manager of a restaurant in Harford county, a DC bedroom community (chock full of government employees, e.g. democrat voters) .  He's pulling into a parking space at work when Harford County police swoop down at him, guns pointed in his face, and spread-eagled.  His crime?  He was driving a Mercedes, was young, and ergo most likely trafficking in dope.  That wasn't what the police told him, but after it happened again (he, released each time) it's what we reasonably surmised. Nobody is more of a law and order guy than me.  But, I've noticed that more and more it seems to be people like me who are being targeted.  Traffic cams everywhere; more new laws than you can shake a stick at (helmet laws, seatbelt laws, gun transport laws, etc.).  The police are doing what they're told to do, for the most part, but their Maryland politician bosses are increasingly telling them to do  things that scare the shit out of me.  It seems.