Carlos Miller Occupy Miami Video Footage Recovered

by NowPublic Staff | February 7, 2012 at 12:23 pm

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Carlos Miller Arrested, Video Footage Deleted... and Recovered

When Miami-Dade police public information officer Nancy Perez ordered the arrest of journalist Carlos Miller as he covered the Occupy Miami protest, the police tried to cover their tracks by deleting the footage on Carlos Miller's camera.

However, Nancy Perez and the Miami-Dade police are going to learn a very valuable lesson: there's deleted, and there's deleted. In this case, Carlos Miller's video footage was the type of deleted that is not really deleted after all, and that footage supports his version of events.

"They took a routine bullshit arrest and turned it into a huge constitutional violation and a possible federal lawsuit because they deleted my footage," Miller says. "They messed with the wrong reporter."

Look, we've been over this time and again: it's perfectly legal to record police officers in public. Meanwhile, Carlos Miller is trying to recover the rest of the deleted files from his camera. It's an expensive and time-consuming process, which will probably figure into the inevitable lawsuit against the Miami-Dade Police Department.