A livestreaming photographer has been acquitted by a jury after he was accused of interfering with police's response to a mass shooting.
A livestreaming photographer has been acquitted by a jury for interfering with police’s response to a mass shooting.
Citizen journalist Schiller began a YouTube livestream after he heard gunshots and saw three people lying on the ground on March 22, 2021. Schiller recorded a three-hour video depicting emergency services attempting to deal with the situation. It can be viewedA Boulder County jury found Schiller not guilty of a misdemeanor obstruction charge., his lawyers argued that being a temporary distraction does not equate to keeping police from doing their job.
“It was a calculated decision to get attention and he liked it,” she said in closing arguments during the trial last week.“It wasn’t that I was creating something. It was real news and I needed to show people as long as they wanted to watch,” says Schiller.
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