On July 20, just 24 hours after a new camera policy  was enacted by the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, DC—you guessed it—the cops still took a guy’s phone. The new policy forbids the confiscation of cameras and cameraphones, and disallows police from ordering citizens to stop filming or taking photos of police action. According to a local Fox TV affiliate , Earl Staley, a 26-year-old local resident started trying to record officers who were punching a man who they were arresting. “So I go and grab my phone and start trying to record it,” Staley told Fox 5 News in the District. “And once I do that, another vice cop reaches over my back and grabs my phone and tells me he’s not giving my phone back.” Read 5 remaining paragraphs | Comments

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One day after DC police’s reasonable camera policy, phone still taken