While the New York Civil Liberties Union has its own ring of steel clamped around lower Manhattan’s proposed "Ring of Steel"—a London-esque security initiative of 3,000 public and private CCTV surveillance cameras for cops to watch ordinary passersby tighter than the scary guy in the bar who knows you’re hitting on his girlfriend and says he’s keeping an eye on you—today the court ruled that cops can no longer tape protesters and public demonstrations "just because."It was an ongoing case from more than 30 years ago, made more serious in 2004 when the Republican National Convention barged into town, had the cops tape (and in some cases even take Polaroids of) everyone on the street like creeps, and illegally threw around 1,200 people in jail. So you know what that means? Yes, we'll still get to watch nose-pickers, ghosts, make-outs, dipshit robbers, and upskirt CCTV videos, but once the cop cameras go online, the only way they can’t legally watch you on the street is to make everything you do a political action of some sort. Way to radicalize us all, NYPD.