Cop who told driver not to record police demoted

Should of been fired.

This story is from a couple years ago, even though Yahoo only picked it up now. Surprise surprise, his demotion was rather temporary and overturned by the city's Civil Service Commission.

Update: Demoted Uber video officer got backdated promotion and raise, left the force the next day | Port City Daily

Police are a fraternal order...

I was a police supervisor. I always told my subordinates to imagine that they were always being videotaped. That way they were always aware of their behavior. Unless a person is interfering with the officers or their actions are distracting to the point of endangering the officer there is no reason to prevent a citizen from recording an officers actions.

There was a video of US Deputy Marshal walking up to a woman and smacking a cell phone out of her hand because she was the recording the agents. She was at least a half a block away and was in no way interfering with their actions. Fortunately, a person across the street recorded the whole thing from a second story window. I don’t know what, if anything happened to the marshal, but personally I think that he should have been arrested for battery and disciplined by the agency.