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<p style="text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">If you are on a public street and take pictures or video of Memphis Police with your cell phone, you could end up in the back of a squad car and your pictures could be deleted.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">ABC 24 News photographer Casey Monroe said that’s what happened to him Sunday morning. Police never charged Monroe with a crime, but this could happen to anyone with a cell phone camera.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Monroe said police went too far outside Thai Bistro Restaurant in downtown Memphis that morning, and that they violated his rights.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">As police were giving the restaurant’s owner, Loy Bouaphaypengerprachan, a ticket for parking illegally, Monroe went to see what was going on and started taking pictures of the parking ticket fiasco.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">The owner told abc24.com, “I think he was doing what a regular citizen would do if they see a situation that’s happening they’re trying to evidence.”</p>
<p style="text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Monroe said he was “just trying to document the situation going on.”</p>
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