Gardaí avverte di aggressivi “giornalisti cittadini” che li filmli e pubblicano video “ritagliati”
https://www.thejournal.ie/garda-citizen-journalists-auditors-amanda-flood-calls-for-protections-from-social-media-filming-6678403-Apr2025/
di Jaisyjaysus69
11 commenti
I’d say it’s fair annoying to be going about your mundane standard duties and have some gobshite shove a camera in your face and try and goad you.
Citizen journalists is just another way to say arseholes with a camera
The “journalists” call them “audits”.
Saw one last week……English guys recording the police on The Netherlands. The guys found out very quickly that the police didn’t take any of their crap.
They’re annoying and strange people in my opinion.
If they get no reaction, they get no clips – I have seen some of the clips where the Garda just waffles about it being illegal to record people in public without their consent which is the exact type of nonsense these ‘auditors’ want to hear to start argument.
Gardai should; turn body cam on, ignore them if not doing anything illegal.
Also if you’re a victim of a crime you’d expect to be taken to a private room, not explain the problem in a lobby.
They’re a nuisance, sure, but they shouldn’t be able to get inappropriate reactions at all, even with clipping.
The Gardaí should all be required to have body cameras turned on at all times. They’ve resisted doing this, and that tells an ugly story.
I’m a very quiet and well behaved person, but had a run in with the Gardaí. I said a few unkind things while being detained and strip searched because I knew full well that I’d done nothing wrong and was unhappy about being needlessly humiliated. Their report completely rewrote the whole encounter and there was nothing I could do because it was my word against theirs. That would never have happened with body cameras. Fortunately it was dismissed, but I can see how other people might have ended up with a more grim outcome in the same scenario.
I doubt it’ll ever happen again, but my takeaways were to say as little as possible and to immediately start recording everything.
Lets call a spade spade. “Citizen Journalist” is a made up term that these right wing conspiracy theorists use to get around trespassing, harassment and defamation laws.
“Im a citizen journalist investigating public concerns about this building” sounds better than “I’m scoping this place out so my fellow racists can burn it down later”
Can’t we just authorise the Gardaí to leather Phillip Dwyer, the fat dog-kicking shit.
Just because a few are clowns with cameras, doesn’t mean it’s a valid excuse for blanket censorship. This could violate civil liberties for anyone who might come into contact with the Gardai.
Citizen journalist
Otherwise known as an unemployed gobshite
Citizen Journalist: Unemployable
I loved the time they were a few going around Kildare Street calling RTÉ and the other media as traitors and then had a go at the Nuacht reporter and camera crew who were doing a live report
“An bhfuil aon Gaelige agat?” asked the reporter which left them scrambling for an Irish speaker. They claimed they had one but we never found out.
Bualadh bos Nuacht 👏