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> They were at the very least intentionally being a nuisance and in most cases breaking actual laws in the process

Pretti was breaking zero laws. You’d have to do some prosecutorial voodoo to conjure up a misdemeanor.

There is lawbreaking in that videos. But the felony-level stuff is all from folks in uniform. (Which, thankfully, they’ve started wearing.)

> calling them "innocent" is quite dishonest

You're not actually arguing that American citizens shouldn't be able to film the cops are you? That would be pretty un-American.

Being a nuisance is not illegal. In the eyes of the law, someone being a nuisance is, indeed, innocent - and to say so is not dishonest.

So now being a nuisance is justification for summary extrajudicial executions?! If people on HN believe this then we’re toast.

That is not at all the argument being made.