Slashdot | Recording Police Misconduct is Illegal

[George at Orwellian.Org]

Eugene Leitl  wrote:
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#    What we're getting (surprise, surprise) is that recording of 
#    the public is allright but not recording *by* the public. Mann's 
#    "shooting back" is rapidly getting outlawed.

I'm not one to make apologies for this sort of thing,
and perhaps I skimmed the article too fast, but...

Isn't the ruling not specific to recording the police,
but that MA has a two-party recording rule?

Everyone has the same standard of "protection".