Anybody who thinks there’s no need to video-record police might want to look at the Huffington Post’s Top 5 Police Brutality Videos or remember this incident. For more examples, there’s always Google.
The Guardian says the new law will not help in calling the police to account.
Maybe the lawmakers felt that incidents such as the one described here might somehow be a threat?
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[...] to maintain and exercise public rights. Otherwise the idea may take hold that for example “it’s illegal to photograph British police“. That is only true in very limited circumstances of anti-terrorism activities. However, if [...]