[Straight Vermonter]

Again, loitering is a very broad standard - making a personal recording is no more vital an activity than waiting for a friend or enjoying a cigarette.

Also SCOTUS has determined that overly broad loitering laws are unconstitutional. It would be hard for the cops to use that as a excuse to arrest a guy who was in an area for just a few minutes and had a legal reason to be there, namely to make a recording of the cops.

[SoFloFreeper]

Actually, the guy with a camera owned the business where this was taking place...AND, if the video I saw on a local
Miami station was accurate, it appears the cops WENT INSIDE HIS BUSINESS to take a camera....someone was filming them from INSIDE, too.

I don’t like this one bit.

[wideawake]

Whether he had a legal reason to be there is immaterial - waiting for a friend and smoking a cigarette (in most US streets) are legal activities too.

The question is how the loitering statute is written.