We recommend that you read this article and watch the activist’s cell phone video: “Gotta Cover Our Ass” Illegally Confiscated Cellphone Records Cops Framing an Innocent Man.
The video shows the police questioning and detaining the activist because he was recording the officers and complaining about police activity. You can hear the police officers casually fabricating a story to bring false charges.
This incident proves how the act of recording the police can protect civilians and reveal police corruption.