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I think you're right. Usually a dozen cops respond to most major calls. Now anybody trying to record, within a block of the action, will be arrested and have their camera seized.

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While these people may be arrested and their cameras may be seized, they could easily sue for unlawful arrest if they were more than 8 feet away at the time. Exactly the same as if their cameras were seized before the 8-foot law were in effect.

I forsee many seized cameras being "accidentally damaged" in Arizona's near future.

If police unlawfully seize and destroy your recorded evidence, then it doesn't matter whether there was a law like this in effect. The officer could make up any story to justify their action under any law.

Mandatory body cam laws would be a lot more relevant in that case, not 8-foot citizen recording laws.

It gives them legal cover for seizing cameras. Right now there is no legal justification for doing so.

They can also just block the view so that the camera is useless...

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