Orlando Police Sued Over Snatching Man's Camera and Jailing him for Recording Arrest

By Carlos Miller
PINAC
Mar. 19, 2014

Despite the United States Department of Justice making it clear in 2012 that police cannot seize your camera as “evidence” just because you video record them making an arrest, police continue to use this tactic to intimidate people from recording.

However, citizens are no longer buy their lies.

The latest example comes to us from Florida where a man is suing Orlando police after they arrested him for refusing to hand over his camera in December.

The federal lawsuit, which was filed earlier today, states that officer Peter Delio snatched the camera from the hands of Alberto Troche before throwing in jail for 15 hours on a charge of resisting arrest without violence, which is Florida’s most reliable contempt-of-cop charge.

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