Ah, but they did.

It is well known that there is no expectation of privacy in public. As a result, it is not only the press, but any citizen who would be allowed to document the police’s activity in public, as long as they don’t interfere.

Most troubling to me is that even though the police were clearly wrong on this case, there was no penalty. Police reviewing their own too often leads to this result. As long as police can violate a citizen’s constitutional rights without penalty, there is no incentive to stop.

Susan Greene was a victim of police ignorance/dishonesty/brutality. She was painfully placed in cuffs for being a law abiding citizen exercising her constitutional rights while the police go to work the next day as if they had done nothing wrong. Releasing her without charges does not negate police actions. Her opportunity to cover this story was denied.