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Cop Confiscates Bystander's Cell Phone For Recording Officer Giving TicketNBC ConnecticutSep. 25, 2012 |
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 Questions are being raised after a Middletown police sergeant confiscated the phone of a bystander who was recording police ticketing a man outside a bar last month. Another bystander captured the officer’s actions on tape. The video shows Sergeant Sebastian Bartolotta reaching for the bystander’s cell phone as he’s recording. The cell phone belonged to 26-year-old Raymond Hassenfeldt. He is a friend of the man who was ticketed. The two were among a group of friends at Hair of the Dog Saloon on Main Street. Later, Hassenfeldt said he asked for his phone back. "They said basically that they could do whatever they wanted,” claimed Hassenfeldt. Read More 
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