Neftaly Cruz was arrested in Philadelphia, PA, US, for taking a picture of police activity on the street, from his own yard, with a phonecam. This is completely legal in the US and has been repeatedly and explicitly upheld by the courts.
An NBC affiliate’s article on the incident says:
"He opened up the gate and Neffy was coming down and he went up to Neffy, pulled him down, had Neffy on the car and was telling him, ‘You should have just went in the house and minded your own business instead of trying to take pictures off your picture phone,’" said Gerrell Martin.
Cruz said police told him that he broke a new law that prohibits people from taking pictures of police with cell phones. [This is a complete fabrication. — Nicolai]
"They threatened to charge me with conspiracy, impeding an investigation, obstruction of a investigation … They said, ‘You were impeding this investigation.’ (I asked,) "By doing what?’ (The officer said,) ‘By taking a picture of the police officers with a camera phone,’" Cruz said.
It gets worse from there.
Read article at NBC10
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