Police Accused of Illegally Seizing Illegal Journalist’s Phone to Access Photos

A reporter from a Univision affiliate in Arizona has accused police of illegally seizing his phone and threatening to access its contents by “brute force” during an incident in April. In a 28-page motion filed in Gilbert Arizona’s Municipal court, journalist León Felipe González Cortés of Univision Arizona says that police violated his First Amendment rights as a reporter by unlawfully seizing his phone and threatening to access its contents, as reported by AZCentral .

Police Accused of Illegally Seizing Journalist’s Phone to Access Photos