Police launch investigations after arrest of photographer

[damnedifIknow]

Detroit police and the department’s internal affairs officers have launched investigations following the arrest of a Free Press photographer who was filming a police action on a public street last week."

Police said they are looking into the conduct of photographer Mandi Wright and the actions of an officer who ordered her to stop filming and wrestled her phone away from her. They also are looking into the disappearance of a memory card from her newspaper-issued iPhone and whether she was briefly left alone with the crime suspect whom she had been filming."

Police at the scene said Wright tussled with an officer after he had confiscated her iPhone; Wright said that she was concentrating on taking her video and did not realize the man who grabbed her phone was a police officer. Wright was handcuffed and later, she said, put in an interrogation room with the suspect."

Wright, taking a step back, says, “I’m with the Detroit Free Press.”

“OK,” the man responds.

“I’m a journalist, working journalist,” Wright says.

“OK. I don’t care who you are,” he says.



http://www.freep.com/article/20130716/NEWS01/307160018/photographer-free-press-mandi-wright-video-arrested

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Ok, one thing that immediately jumps at me

iPhones don't have memory cards. Android do.

After that serious nit pick. This is worrisome.

[think]

3. Looks like someone confused memory card with sim card in the article

further on in the article:

Later, police returned the phone, but the SIM card had been removed. Still, the video remained on the phone’s internal memory. After the discovery that the card was missing, internal affairs officers were summoned to interview Wright and Gray.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Yup

[NutmegYankee]

5. Explanation -

"Later, police returned the phone, but the SIM card had been removed. Still, the video remained on the phone’s internal memory. After the discovery that the card was missing, internal affairs officers were summoned to interview Wright and Gray."

Obviously the police didn't understand that difference and attempted to destroy the memory.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. It jumped at me...sorry.

In a way, good they did not get it

[Warpy]

2. Ossifer Roid Rage didn't appear to be wearing his badge.

You bet your ass they're going to have to investigate this.

[MotherPetrie]

7. Copthug will be cleared. Next!

[Hydra]

8. “OK. I don’t care who you are,” he says.

...What are we paying him for again?