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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. —
Video is surfacing on Facebook raising questions about your rights when police approach you.
It was taken at Jax Beach over the weekend. The man who took the video tells Action News he and a friend were leaving the beach when officers pulled up and started taking pictures of them.
That video was taken by Jervonnti Lazenberry. We spoke to him on the phone Tuesday. He tells us officers detained him and a friend for 25-30 minutes asking why and how they got to the beach.
Iris Brown saw the video online and had one question. "Was it legal," said Brown.
"Police are free to do this," said Action News Law and Safety expert Dale Carson. He says it is perfectly legal. They were in a public place. He says this is one tactic police use to identify gang members.
"It's a fairly aggressive technique. The question is, is it merited," said Carson.
Neither JSO nor Jax Beach police could comment on the specifics of what's going on in the video. Jax Beach police did say JSO was working with them to watch crowds during the busy Memorial Day weekend.
One woman says if this curtails gang violence, she's ok with it. "If there's a reason, a legitimate reason, I'm ok with it. If not, I'm not ok with it," said Brown.
We asked the man who shot the video if he was in a gang. He told us no.
JSO says it was checking to see if they had something going on this past weekend they could talk about but we have not heard from them.
http://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/n...r-local-police-photographing-people-an/nmPK8/
Video is surfacing on Facebook raising questions about your rights when police approach you.
It was taken at Jax Beach over the weekend. The man who took the video tells Action News he and a friend were leaving the beach when officers pulled up and started taking pictures of them.
That video was taken by Jervonnti Lazenberry. We spoke to him on the phone Tuesday. He tells us officers detained him and a friend for 25-30 minutes asking why and how they got to the beach.
Iris Brown saw the video online and had one question. "Was it legal," said Brown.
"Police are free to do this," said Action News Law and Safety expert Dale Carson. He says it is perfectly legal. They were in a public place. He says this is one tactic police use to identify gang members.
"It's a fairly aggressive technique. The question is, is it merited," said Carson.
Neither JSO nor Jax Beach police could comment on the specifics of what's going on in the video. Jax Beach police did say JSO was working with them to watch crowds during the busy Memorial Day weekend.
One woman says if this curtails gang violence, she's ok with it. "If there's a reason, a legitimate reason, I'm ok with it. If not, I'm not ok with it," said Brown.
We asked the man who shot the video if he was in a gang. He told us no.
JSO says it was checking to see if they had something going on this past weekend they could talk about but we have not heard from them.
http://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/n...r-local-police-photographing-people-an/nmPK8/
