Uh-oh. Public officials are “investigating” again. This time the public officials are way up in Rochester, N.Y. The back story goes something like this: On May 12, Rochester resident Emily Good decided to record a police stop on her iPod. Described in several news reports as an activist, Good said she was concerned that racial profiling might be afoot when three white police officers stopped a black motorist.

Rochester police Officer Mario Masic demanded that Good stop recording and go back into her house. Good replied that she had every right to record police activity from her own property, which New York state law allows, by the way.