VIDEO Denver police handcuff journalist, tell her to ‘act like a lady’ for taking photos

Body camera video of police detaining a Denver journalist photographing officers shows one officer taking her phone and another handcuffing her right after saying she would be arrested for interfering if she didn’t stop.

Susan Greene, editor of The Colorado Independent, was put in a patrol car in July after trying to document police tending to a handcuffed naked man on a sidewalk.

Click here to watch the video and read the article The Colorado Independent posted to their website.

An officer used his body and hands to block her. When she stopped to talk, he said medical privacy law trumped her First Amendment rights to record the scene.

She was handcuffed after she then tried to photograph his badge. Officers told her to stand up and “act like a lady” and to stop resisting and relax when she said they were hurting her. She was released after about 10 minutes.