Police Steal Man's Memory Card

At least that is the claim by DC resident Earl Staley. One day after DC Metro Police circulated a department directive instructing police offers that taking pictures of officers was not a crime or even suspicious behavior, Earl Stale gets his camera taken. The camera is later returned with the memory card missing.

What was he shooting? He claims it was police officers punching a man they were arresting. In fare defense of the police officers, they may have been required to punch the man they were arresting because he was resisting arrest or assaulting the officers. And as a supporter of police officers everywhere, I say punch away if that was the case. Do what you need to arrest criminals. If they refuse to go peacefully, then I for one support the officers for doing what is required in a very unsafe job. But we don't know and honestly that is not the point of this article.

The point we need to focus on here is that another plain clothes officer that was on the scene wrongly confiscated the photographer's camera, and memory card.

And it comes one day after this article we posted here, where Jerome Vorus successfully sued the DC Metro Police Department for wrongly detaining him for taking pictures of police officers while in a public location.

Apparently someone did not get the message. Police tell the news that they are investigating. Here is a news clip.

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