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A Florida man who was arrested last year for video recording Orlando police making an arrest received a $15,000 settlement this month.
His lawyers, however, might end up making three times that much for working his case.
And the cop who arrested him, seizing his phone as “evidence” as well as seizing another bystanders’s phone remains on the job as if nothing had happened.
The only difference is that Orlando police officer Peter Delio is now expected to follow a new departmental policy requiring officers to respect the rights of citizens to record them in public.
In other words, he is now mandated by the department to follow the law.
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Face it, a cops worst enemy now is a law abiding citizen armed with a phone camera. Their own website too.
So much for your meh. Eventually cities will get tired of doling out the settlements.
http://photographyisnotacrime.com/20...ns-settlement/
