Criminal Charges for Failure to Register Bicycle in Montgomery Co. (MD)
Channel: Flex Your Rights
Date: 2019-12-08

MEDIA & LEGISLATIVE UPDATES!!!
1/21/19: The Montgomery County Council introduced a bill, with unanimous support, to fix the mandatory bicycle registration law! 
Here's coverage from Fox 5 DC, ABC 7 WJLA, and WTOP News
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/montgomery-county-council-introduces-bill-that-would-repeal-mandatory-bicycle-registration
https://wjla.com/news/local/it-makes-no-sense-montgomery-co-politicians-want-to-end-mandatory-bicycle-registration
https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2020/01/montgomery-county-moving-to-change-a-old-law-that-made-riding-an-unregistered-bicycle-illegal/
12/23/19: Fox 5 DC covers public backlash against mandatory registration law
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/you-may-be-breaking-the-law-if-your-bicycle-isnt-registered-in-montgomery-county
12/20/19: Bethesda Magazine, covering Montgomery County, picks up story
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/politics/is-your-bike-registered-in-montgomery-county-its-required/
12/17/2019: Reason Magazine covers story
https://reason.com/2019/12/17/this-bicycle-registration-law-gives-police-yet-another-excuse-to-punish-insufficiently-meek-citizens/
12/09/19: MD State Delegate David Moon posts video to his Facebook page, sparks local uproar, gets county reps backing law's repeal
https://www.facebook.com/davidmoon0/posts/10101859904927428

ORIGINAL POST
A few weeks ago, I was a defendant in a Maryland district court facing two criminal charges from an incident that happened last June. It started when Officers Christopher Brown and Jason Halko from the Montgomery County Police Department stopped me on my bicycle.

When the stop was over, they left me with two criminal citations. One was for failure to stop at a stop sign. The other was for failure to display a county registration sticker on my bicycle. But as this video shows, the real reason I got charged was for asserting my constitutional rights. With my criminal case resolved, I’m sharing my story to show how police misuse dumb laws to punish people who assert their rights or upset them.

This demo video was produced and narrated by Steve Silverman. Music track provided by Scott Morgan. The video was edited on iMovie.