A police officer arrested a man after the man said he planned to report the officer to Internal Affairs.
The train station is public property, and individuals have the right to film police activity. The man recording did not interfere with the arrest or investigation and was filming from a reasonable distance.
Arresting him for “interfering with a police investigation” is baseless. Many officers mistakenly believe that California Penal Code 148(a) prohibits filming the police, but they ignore Penal Code 148(g), which explicitly protects the public’s right to record law enforcement.
