A video purporting to be Ferguson, Missouri, cop Darren Wilson in a confrontation with a local man surfaced on Friday, the New York Daily News reported.
Resident Mike Arman allegedly recorded Wilson, who may or may not be indicted this month for the controversial shooting death of Michael Brown, during an incident that ended with the cop arresting Arman, which he claims violated his First Amendment rights.
At the start of the video, the resident asks for the name of a uniformed officer he is speaking with during an October 2013 incident.
"If you wanna take a picture of me one more time, I'm gonna lock your a-- up," replies the officer alleged to be Wilson.
Wilson steps foward as Arman, 30, says he is not taking a picture but recording the incident. The 15-second YouTube video abruptly ends with Arman asking the cop if he has a right to record the incident and Wilson allegedly saying, "no" and "come on."
A Ferguson Police Department spokesman told The Guardian he doesn't think the officer in the video is Wilson. No other comment from the department was provided.
However, a police report from Oct. 28, 2013 lists Wilson as the arresting officer. The 28-year-old cop wrote he went to the home on Redmond Avenue to issue a court summons in relation to Arman's derelict vehicles, The Guardian reported.
Arman became upset at the impending summons and stated he wanted to record the incident, according to Wilson's report. He said he told Arman he is only allowed to take a voice recording. Arman would not cooperate and proceeded to record the officer, Wilson wrote.
But Arman claims Wilson did not tell him about the recording rule until after he was arrested. He "began recording within moments of Wilson approaching the property," he told The Guardian. "I wanted to safeguard myself by recording what happened."
Wilson also wrote he told Arman to take the camera out of his face, but in the video the officer is shown standing several feet away from Arman.
Arman, who has a previous charge for resisting arrest, was charged with failure to comply and violating pit bull regulations. Arman told The Guardian the latter charge was dismissed when he proved the animal was a bulldog.
The failure to comply charge was also dropped after Arman told his lawyer he recorded part of the incident, he told The Guardian.
Wilson's name was launched into the national spotlight after he shot and killed 18-year-old Brown, who was unarmed, during an altercation on Aug. 9. Ferguson residents and law enforcement are bracing themselves for potential riots if the grand jury chooses not to indict.
