Richard FIELDS, Appellant
v.
CITY OF PHILADELPHIA; Sisca, Police Officer, Badge No. 9547; Joe Doe, an Unknown Philadelphia Police Officer.
Amanda Geraci, Appellant
v.
City of Philadelphia; Dawn Brown, Police Officer, Badge No. 2454; Terra M. Barrow, Police Officer, Badge No. 1147; Nikki L. Jones, Police Officer, Badge No. 2549; Rhonda Smith, Police Officer, Badge No. 1373.
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Craig R. Gottlieb, Esquire (Argued), City of Philadelphia Law Department, 1515 Arch Street, 17th Floor, One Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19102, Counsel for Appellees
Bruce D. Brown, Esquire , Gregg P. Leslie, Esquire , The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, 1156 15th Street, N.W., Suite 1250, Washington, DC 20005, Counsel for Amicus Appellant, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 31 Media Organizations
Robert J. LaRocca, Esquire , Kohn Swift & Graf, One South Broad Street, Suite 2100, Philadelphia, PA 19107, Counsel for Amicus Appellant, First Amendment Law Professors.
Patrick G. Geckle, Esquire , 1500 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Two Penn Center Plaza, Suite 1850, Philadelphia, PA 19102, John Burton, Esquire , The Marine Building, 128 North Fair Oaks Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91103, David Milton, Esquire , Law Offices of Howard Friedman, PC, 90 Canal Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02114, Counsel for Amicus Appellant, National Police Accountability Project
Before: AMBRO, RESTREPO, and NYGAARD, Circuit Judges
OPINION OF THE COURT
AMBRO, Circuit Judge.
In 1991 George Holliday recorded video of the Los Angeles Police Department officers beating Rodney King and submitted it to the local news. Filming police on the job was rare then but common now. With advances in technology and the widespread ownership of smartphones, "civilian recording of police...
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