Journalist Adam “Ademo” Mueller was released on the 11th.
Adam Mueller is the founder of CopBlock.org, and co-host of Free Talk Live, a New Hampshire-based liberty-oriented program that is streamed online and nationally syndicated on radio in the U.S. Mueller appeared on the Saturday live edition, to say he’s now “free as a bird,” but the battle isn’t over.
Over a year ago, Frank W. Harrington, 17, was “messing around” with his sister when he took her purse. Although Harrington said his sister was largely unconcerned, the school sent out school resource officer Darren Murphy, an officer that would come to aggressively arrest the student. Harrington got twelve days suspension, along with disorderly conduct and “resisting arrest” charges.
Michael Proulx, also 17, recorded the scene. When the school ordered Proulx to delete everything, he lied, telling them that he only took pictures, and proceeded to act as if deleting photos. The video would come in handy: a must for CopBlock.org, a site that seeks accountability for rights violations and brutality of the police. (And who likes bad apples?) The video of Harrington being lifted from his seat in the school cafeteria by Murphy and slammed face-first into a table went up last October.
Dedicated to voluntarism, Adam Mueller was on the case to defend Harrington and Proulx, and asked for comment the Manchester police captain, Manchester High School West principal and a school secretary. Contending “oh, and it’s not illegal at all” to tape “misguided” Murphy, an “exact example why filming police is important,” Mueller didn’t explicitly tell any of these people that the conversations he had with them were being recorded.
You’d think that the recording of the direct phone call made by the civilian party—not some bug in a lamp—would be allowed or implied in asking for and using quotes as any journalist would. Mueller, after all, told them he was asking them for their comment on the matter. But New Hampshire is one of twelve states in the union of fifty that make any form of recording illegal without expressed permission.
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