Incident Details
- Date of Incident
- June 14, 2017
- Arrest Status
- Detained and released without being processed
- Arresting Authority
- Onondaga County Courthouse Security
- Unnecessary use of force?
- No
Arrest/Criminal Charge
- Equipment Seized
- Status of Seized Equipment
- Returned in full
- Search Warrant Obtained
- No
Equipment Search or Seizure
Handcuffs
Syracuse Post-Standard court reporter Douglass Dowty was briefly detained by a security officer in the Onondaga County Courthouse in upstate New York on June 14, 2017, the Post-Standard reported.
Dowty reportedly took a photograph of officers arresting a man in the courthouse hallway. Another officer then approached Dowty, ordered him to hand over his mobile phone and handcuffed him.
Dowty was then escorted to a security office, where he waited for a few minutes before being released. The security officers returned his equipment to him and Dowty told the Post-Standard that it did not appear that his phone had been searched.
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