{"id":66316,"date":"2016-02-09T16:32:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T21:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=66316"},"modified":"2016-02-09T16:32:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T21:32:59","slug":"rep-terri-bryant-says-ill-ban-fight-videos-posted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/rep-terri-bryant-says-ill-ban-fight-videos-posted\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Lawmaker Wants To Ban Online Videos Of Fights"},"content":{"rendered":"
SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS — Rep. Terri Bryant, a Republican from Illinois, intends to make it a crime to record a fight with the intention of posting the video online.<\/p>\n
A fight video that was filmed in her hometown of Murphysboro was posted to Facebook and she says she found it disturbing. No one was seriously injured in the fight.<\/p>\n
“Instead of getting help, they opened their cellphones,” Bryant said, according to the AP. “I just want to send a clear message that it is unacceptable to stage these fights or be a willing bystander.”<\/p>\n
The proposed legislation would make it a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct to post fight videos online.<\/p>\n
A Synopsis for the bill reads: “Provides that it is also disorderly conduct to knowingly upload a video of a crime being committed, a gang-related fight, a battery committed with the intent to cause a person to be made unconscious, or other display of violence to a social media website or social networking website with the intent to promote or condone that activity or refuse to provide a law enforcement agency or peace officer with that uploaded video upon request of that agency or officer. Provides that a violation is a Class A misdemeanor.”<\/em><\/p>\n