Well, you can’t be convicted of anything, as long as you have a good lawyer. And you might recover legal fees and small damage amounts, if you make a federal case of an arrest followed by dismissal of charges.
But while the police department “discourages” such arrests now, they apparently don’t have a policy forbidding them, or penalties for officers who do seize your camera and arrest you.
January 31st, 2012 at 1:13 pm
Well, you can’t be convicted of anything, as long as you have a good lawyer. And you might recover legal fees and small damage amounts, if you make a federal case of an arrest followed by dismissal of charges.
But while the police department “discourages” such arrests now, they apparently don’t have a policy forbidding them, or penalties for officers who do seize your camera and arrest you.