Videotapiing Law Officers illegal?

via time:

Info on multiple cases awaiting court dates, prosecutors attempting to argue that filming the police equals a violation of federal wiretapping laws. Dunno how that's supposed to work.
Understandable that the police are wary about being filmed, but don't criminalize and/or harass bystanders to cover the collective ass, just in case a cop is doing something he or she shouldn't.

Pregnant woman executed by Taliban

via Huffpost:

Executed for ALLEGED adultery. Not even proof, just the allegations are enough to warrant her death, apparently. Way to go, humanity. You suck.

Police on BP payroll. Literally.

via Salon:

Louisiana police enforcing BP's no-photo/no reporters policy. On public land. Search & seizures, confiscation of film, etc. No legal, well, anything to justify this behavior. But BP's paying for their overtime. Privatized police, here we come.