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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Io Dodds

Proposed Arizona bill requires anyone filming police to stand 15ft away

Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images

Arizona's state legislature is considering a law that would ban citizens from filming police officers from closer than 15ft.

Republican representative John Kavanagh, a former cop, introduced the bill after being approached by officers who said that people filming them were coming too close and interfering with their work.

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