[throwthebumsout]

They didn't target him for videotaping them. From the article, the guy was identified as someone who may have been involved:

Officers were informed that there was a gray Jeep involved. Officers were told that the gray Jeep was picking up offenders after they attempted to cash the fraudulent check. This officer was informed that the above subject [Joe Bennett] at which time was standing on the side of his vehicle was the driver of the gray Jeep.

[Fido969]

Really? Informed by who? I doubt it.

[ClearCase_guy]

I would guess that the officer was “informed” by some “anonymous sources” that were invented as a convenient excuse to harass a citizen.

[ConservativeMind]

“Officers were informed that there was a gray Jeep involved. Officers were told that the gray Jeep was picking up offenders after they attempted to cash the fraudulent check. This officer was informed that the above subject [Joe Bennett] at which time was standing on the side of his vehicle was the driver of the gray Jeep.”

Who did this “informing,” when the officers agreed the filming guy was not a suspect, later?

It sounds like it was completely made up by the police officers to cover their butts for harassing the filming guy.