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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Nov 29, 2023, 02:03 PM Nov 2023

'My rights were violated': Everett officer arrests woman filming him [View all]

EVERETT — On a warm August morning, Molly Wright heard shouting outside her apartment at the Bluffs at Evergreen.

She grabbed her phone and a camera stabilizer around 11 a.m. Aug. 10., then approached an Everett officer’s patrol car parked along a private street at 2 West Casino Road.

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“Can you please step back? Or you’ll be arrested for obstruction,” he warns her, in a 39-minute video of his body camera footage Wright posted to YouTube this month.

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In the footage, she backs up to a curb, roughly 15 feet from the officer. The officer walks across the street and handcuffs her for investigation of obstructing law enforcement, a misdemeanor.

The arrest raises questions about whether Greely violated Wright’s First Amendment right to film police in public, a right that has been affirmed by the state Supreme Court, in cases including Lewis v. State, Dept. of Licensing (2006) and State v. E.J.J. (2015).

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/my-rights-were-violated-everett-officer-arrests-woman-filming-him/

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