They Tried To Arrest Me

On May 3, 2026, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police violated my constitutional rights in broad daylight. On camera. In less than ten minutes.I was filming police activity at Cheyenne and Durango as part of my ongoing investigation into LVMPD's use of Flock Safety surveillance technology. I was standing in a parking lot at a safe and reasonable distance. I said nothing to any officer. I approached no one. And yet Metro chose to approach me, fabricate a reason to stop me from filming, run my license plate as retaliation for invoking my rights, and threaten me with arrest on a false obstruction charge.Here is what makes this different from every other cop video you have seen. One of their own officers accidentally told the truth. While his colleague was shouting at me and lying about obstruction, he quietly admitted out loud what the real problem was. Not that I was blocking anything. Not that I was interfering with anything. The problem was that I was recording.That admission is on tape. That is the whole case.Nevada has some of the strongest laws in the country protecting your right to record police. LVMPD violated those laws. They violated the First Amendment. They ran my plates to intimidate me. They threatened me with arrest to silence me. And every officer standing in that parking lot that night is responsible.I have been investigating LVMPD's surveillance apparatus for months. The more I dig, the more they do not want to be seen. The irony of a department that films every car in Las Vegas trying to stop one journalist from filming them is not lost on me.This is a small moment. But small moments are exactly where rights go to die if we let them. We cannot let them.Watch the full breakdown. Share this. And if you believe in the right to hold police accountable, let me know in the comments.Subscribe for continuing coverage of this investigation and the fight to keep Las Vegas police answerable to the people they are supposed to serve.