Des Moines Residents Will Shell Out $125,000 To Man Whose Phone Was Illegally Seized By Cops He Was Recording

TL;DR

This is what was said at the time: Detective Youngblut suggested that the officers “just make a suspicious activity case .[and] confiscate the camera until we have a reason for what we’re doing.” Just making some shit up, basically.Once sued, the detective claimed reported car vandalism in the area, as well as a murder of a couple of cops somewhere else in the country by a person filming them, was all the justification he needed to stop Robbins and seize his recording equipment.The city seems a bit bitter about this, but only appears to think the judicial system is flawed, rather than the officers whose rights violations triggered this lawsuit.Click here to show it."

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