Accident witness: Officer threatened to take cell phone for taking photos

2014-10-10T13:45:46-05:00

By Deborah McKeon Temple Daily Telegram Originally published Oct. 9, 2014 A Temple resident who witnessed an accident in which two men died on Thursday night said a Temple Police officer threatened to take his cellphone away because he was taking photographs and video. Sean Ramirez said the officer threatened to take his cellphone away if he didn’t stop taking pictures, so Ramirez said he stopped and started recording instead. The same officer started yelling at him again to turn off his phone before it was taken from him, so Ramirez went across the street to take the final photo, he [...]