San Francisco's Office of Citizen
Complaints found that the San Francisco cops who arrested public defender Jami
Tillotson after she told them to stop photographing her client in a courthouse
hallway were in the wrong, and that they engaged in "conduct reflecting
discredit on the department."
That said, none of the cops who
arrested Tillotson, nor those who "made inappropriate comments to the
media following the incident," nor the police chief who "stood by the
actions of Sgt. Brian Stansbury and the other officers who arrested
Tillotson" will face any consequences for their misdeeds.
Maybe so, but the complaint
review board says otherwise. his officers may have had the "reasonable
suspicion" to take pictures, but they clearly didn't have the right to
continue to do so after being told not to by an officer of the court (the
public defender), much less prevent her from doing her job by arresting her.
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