Senator Weighs In on Videotaping Police

  




  

    

      
By Deirdre Shesgreen - Connecticut Mirror

      
Published: Feb 28, 2011

    

    

                   
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The Oddly Named  Luna and Looney
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	As Luis Luna tries to clear his name after being arrested while videotaping police, a New Haven lawmaker is working to give people like him another tool to defend their rights.



	Luna and his lawyer appeared in Connecticut Superior Court on Elm Street Friday in an attempt to clear his name of charges that he interfered with police while videotaping them with his cell phone.



	Whether New Haven police’s practice of defining photographing them in public as “interfering” has become a hot topic.



	Luna (pictured), a 27-year-old from Wallingford, fell into his legal bind after a brush with former Asst. Chief Ariel Melendez on Sept. 25, 2010. Luna was using his iPhone to videotape police on College Street when Melendez arrested him. It was one of several recent incidents, two involving Melendez, in which cops took action against citizens for using cameras in public. 



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