In 2019, South Bend police officers were involved in an incident where they used a new Indiana law to push back individuals filming them, including a cop watcher known as Freedom2Film. The officers misused the 25-foot law to move observers further away from the scene, raising concerns about the infringement of First Amendment rights and the potential for abuse of the law to avoid public scrutiny.
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