It looks like the Denver PD publicly admitted that the officers were wrong but did not reprimand them:
“The Denver Police Department respects the First Amendment rights of all individuals,” the department said in a statement.
On July 10, five days after this incident, the department said it issued a “training requirement” to review First Amendment-related policies. On August 16, the department also published a training bulletin related to First Amendment policies.
The bulletin reiterates the right of the public to record police activity, so long as the person is in a public place where they are legally allowed to be present, are not placing themselves or anyone else in danger, and do not “materially interfere” with police conduct.
Officers, under the DPD guidelines, shall not, “threaten, intimidate, or otherwise discourage from recording” such individuals, and neither will officers “detain or arrest the individual,” the bulletin states.
The Denver District Attorney’s Office reviewed the incident and chose not to press charges against the officers. The Denver police department conducted a preliminary review and opened a formal internal affairs investigation to determine whether the officers involved violated department policy.
