INSIDE EDITION: Woman Arrested For Filming Police From Her Front Lawn
Channel: RochesterCopwatch
Date: 2011-07-10

Airdate: 7/8/2011

It was quite a scene. Three police officers slapping tickets on parked cars. Why did it take so many cops? What was going on?

To find out, you have to go back a few weeks, when Emily Good witnessed a commotion outside her home in Rochester, New York and decided to videotape the police activity.

Officer: You guys need something?

Emily: "I'm just on my front yard and I'm recording what you are doing. It's my right."

The police didn't appreciate her presence.

Officer: "I don't feel safe with you behind me, so I'm going to ask you to go in your house.

Emily: "I was standing in my front yard concerned about what was going on in my neighborhood and you are arresting me! What the hell is going on?"

Emily Good, who was with her friend, Ryan Acuff, didn't think she was doing anything wrong. After all, it was her front yard. "I'm thinking, is this for real? I don't want to back up, back off this entirely," she explained to INSIDE EDITION.

In the video, you can hear one officer repeatedly asking her to stop taping and go inside. But Good decided to stand her ground.

Officer: "I'm going to ask you one more time, we don't feel safe with you standing right behind us."

Good showed INSIDE EDITION what she did then, "I said 'I'm going to back up' and I back up pretty quickly and he says, 'No, no, stay right there, you are getting arrested.' "

Cop said on the video: "You know what, you're gonna go to jail."