And then published on a commercial outlet like youtube? Where they have the potential to profit from my likeness?

At least on television you have to sign a waver, they are forced to act with some ethics. No ethics for the internet generation.

The police will be the first to tell you that you have no expectation of privacy for what occurs in public.

unless it involves filming an officer

Oh I know. It is unfortunate. , that's all. If I don't have a right for my telephone conversations to be private and subject for search warrant because they're on public airwaves when on a cell phone then I definitely can be subjected to the dehumanizing and alienating experience of having a stranger video tape me. Personally though, on a bad day, the social contract might not save the interloper.

That's why when the cops act like meat heads......you know they're really meat heads..

Only if they have a reasonable assumption that hey can destroy the video evidence.

Well they do it regardless because too many softies for cops live under that mantra of " cops wouldn't be doing something if you didn't deserve it "

No one did anything, obviously. But, how do the officers know that from their perspective while investigating a crime scene? It's easy for us to sit and watch a YouTube video from behind our computer screens after the fact. Which makes you wonder what purpose would a person have to circle a crime scene in their car late at night? Are they looking to distract officers? Are they trying to hide evidence? Are they helping a suspect flee the scene? Were they part of the crime and are looking for a way out? What is there purpose?

Now, the cops have to stop what they're doing and figure out why this car is driving around. When they pull the person over, that person is immediately hostile and attempting to get away as soon as possible. That's got to raise all kinds of red flags.

Except...wait. They aren't doing anything helpful. They're just goading the police into a YouTube video to become internet famous. They just waste the officers' time when the officers have to figure out what in the hell this suspicious vehicle is doing. It's not that he was filming the police that bothers me. It's the way he handled it. He was acting suspicious, then throws a shitfit when the police come over and ask him why he's being suspicious.

It's not like the asshat filmed the next Rodney King beating. He was just sticking his nose in other people's business trying to get YouTube subscribers.

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The cops don't know anything other than he's driving around, he hasn't broken a single damn law.
we are innocent until proven guilty, besides the cop knew who he was and knew what he was doing he said that the guy had been following the squad car around all night.
Again not against the law!
As far as wasting time the cop is the one who decided to pull him over and bust his chops for following him around, it was a clear case of harassment.