Recently in a small city in eastern Washington the local PD SWAT raided a home that was a suspected gang house in broad daight causing the neighbors to come out and see what was going on. One young man pulled out his cell phone and started taking video. One of the SWAT guys sees this and confronts him. Tells him it is illegal to film him and if he continues he will be arrested. The guy complied but continue to question the illegality of filming and he was arrested. By the time it went to court the charge was changed to obstruction for entering in to the cordoned off area.
Sound pretty legit except he was the only one arrested and was surrounded by his other neighbors who were not even warned to move back. The case was eventually dropped because as the Deputy Chief claims the area was not well defined. The problem is the SWAT officer never tells the guy to move back, etc, only that he will be arrested for taping the action.
Classic example of changing the story to fit the law as they see necessary for officer protection. It can be found here: www.dailysunnews.com
Just type in Swat in the search area. Has the whole video if the episode.
I believe it. I guess the guy will the video camera was lucky he didn’t get shot.