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A New York City police officer who arrested a man as he tried to film him and other officers
with a cellphone camera was charged on Tuesday with official misconduct and lying on a criminal complaint.
The charges brought against the officer, Jonathan Munoz, highlight a trend. Conflicts between citizens and the police
have become common in recent years, sometimes ending in arrests for disorderly conduct, as cameras have proliferated and passers-by have begun to videotape the police at work.
Officer Munoz, 32, of Suffern, N.Y., pleaded not guilty as he was formally charged before Justice Marcy L. Kahn in State Supreme Court in Manhattan. His lawyer, Stephen C. Worth,
said the officer was justified in making the arrest and should never have been indicted. “We look forward to his exoneration,” he said.
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Why are police union spokesmen such colossal assholes?Patrick Lynch, president of the union representing police officers, said people sometimes abuse their rights, using them to torment or harass officers.
"It escalates the tension and makes it more dangerous for everyone involved," Lynch said. "The act of recording police starts from the belief that every officer is doing something wrong and that's insulting to all police officers."
For officers, problems arise when recording can be interpreted as interfering with police activity, union officials say. They add that officers understand they may be filmed, but the line between interference and documentation is blurred when a bystander shoves a cellphone into a crime scene from an arms-length away and yells aggressively at officers.