police activity so what will it take for the rest of the country to follow suit to discuss this steve silverman founder and executive director for flex your rights joins us now welcome stephen so sounds like a good effort a good start on behalf of the police department here in washington d.c. do you think it's going to work or think so i think the chief is recognizing what the courts around the country are already recognizing and that is that recording on duty police is protected first amendment activity and that citizens absolutely have the right to do it so citizens have these rights but often times when you're in a situation when you're faced with a police officer and he's either intimidating you or telling you to to put the phone away or they're going to arrest you i mean how do citizens up. hold these rights right it's important to recognize that all the citizens have the right to record on duty police not all police departments and officers have essentially gotten the memo and so often police officers will intimidate citizens into thinking that they do not have the right to report police

facing charges thank you so much become very interesting a lot of useful tips there that was steve silverman he is the founder and executive director for flex your right. also had an r.t.a. while the u.s. does everything short of putting up electric fences across its border with mexico china is extending an open hand so latin america coming up will tell you about the economic advantages china is currently pursuing and what the u.s. has to say about it. r t is the state run english speaking russian channel it's kind of like algis you. russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us. me when i was like years old she told the truth. yesterday. i'm very. pleased. at first very much as burns your eyes right right i mean it's like a derivative of actual paper it's a food product essentially. much stronger than anything you'd be buying. thousands of times stronger than anything. else that's a real headline. the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers from what actually matters to those so that's why young people just