One law for thee….

‘That Anthony Graber broke the law in early March is indisputable. He raced his Honda motorcycle down Interstate 95 in Maryland at 80 mph, popping a wheelie, roaring past cars and swerving across traffic lanes.
But it wasn’t his daredevil stunt that has the 25-year-old staff sergeant for the Maryland Air National Guard facing the possibility of 16 years in prison. For that, he was issued a speeding ticket. It was the video that Graber posted on YouTube one week later — taken with his helmet camera — of a plainclothes state trooper cutting him off and drawing a gun during the traffic stop near Baltimore.
In early April, state police officers raided Graber’s parents’ home in Abingdon, Md. They confiscated his camera, computers and external hard drives. Graber was indicted for allegedly violating state wiretap laws by recording the trooper without his consent.’
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“Without his consent”??  Since when did a citizen need consent to videotape his employees in a public place? And police routinely videotape citizens during traffic stops without their explicit consent.
This smacks of the State covering the ass of cops who regards themselves as –if not above the law– at least as a special class of citizen entitled to operate as they see fit. One wonders if the Rodney King beating hadn’t been captured by an amateur cameraman if those cops would ever have faced a court….