FRASIER v. EVANS

No. 19-1015.

992 F.3d 1003 (2021)

Levi FRASIER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Denver Police Officers Christopher L. EVANS, #05151; Charles C. Jones, #04120; John H. Bauer, #970321; Russell Bothwell, #94015; John Robledo, Defendants-Appellants, The Rutherford Institute; First Amendment Legal Scholars; Cato Institute; American Civil Liberties Union; American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Colorado; Institute for Justice; Electronic Frontier Foundation; National Police Accountability Project; The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press; American Society of News Editors; The Associated Press Media Editors; Association of Alternative Newsmedia; Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC; California News Publishers Association; Californians Aware; the Colorado Broadcasters Association; the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition; The Colorado Independent; the Colorado Press Association; the Colorado Sun; Digital First Media, LLC; The E.W. Scripps Company; First Amendment Coalition; First Look Media Works, Inc.; Freedom of the Press Foundation; Gannett Co., Inc.; The International Documentary Association; the Investigative Reporting Program; The Investigative Reporting Workshop; The McClatchy Company; The Media Institute; MPA — The Association of Magazine Media; The National Freedom of Information Coalition; The National Press Club; The National Press Club Journalism Institute; National Press Photographers Association; The New York Times Company; News Media Alliance; Online News Association; Radio Television Digital News Association; Reporters Without Borders; Reuters; The Society of Environmental Journalists; Society of Professional Journalists; Tegna Inc.; The Tully Center for Free Speech; Vice Media LLC, Amici Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Filed March 29, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David C. Cooperstein , Assistant City Attorney, ( Jamesy C. Trautman , Assistant City Attorney, with him on the briefs), Denver City Attorney's Office, Denver, Colorado, for Defendants-Appellants.

Elizabeth Wang , of Loevy & Loevy, Boulder, Colorado, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Matthew R. Cushing , Adjunct Faculty, University of Colorado Law School, Boulder, Colorado, filed an amicus curiae brief for First Amendment Legal Scholars in support of Plaintiff-Appellee.

Mark Silverstein and Sara R. Neel , of American Civil Liberties Union and American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Colorado, Denver, Colorado; and Anya Bidwell , of Institute for Justice, Austin, Texas; and Jay R. Schweikert and Clark M. Neily, III , of CATO Institute, Washington, D.C., filed an amici curiae brief for American Civil Liberties Union and American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado, Institute for Justice, CATO Institute, in support of Plaintiff-Appellee.

Sophia Cope and Adam Schwartz , of Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, California, filed an amicus curiae brief for Electronic Frontier Foundation in support of Plaintiff-Appellee.

David Milton , Boston, Massachusetts; Eugene Iredale , Julia Yoo , and Grace Jun , of Iredale and Yoo, APC, San Diego, California, filed an amicus curiae brief for National Police Accountability Project in support of Plaintiff-Appellee.

Christopher F. Moriarty , John W. Whitehead , and Douglas R. McKusick , of The Rutherford Institute, Charlottesville, Virginia, filed an amicus curiae brief for The Rutherford Institute in support of the Plaintiff-Appellee.

Steven D. Zansberg , of Ballard Spahr, LLP., Denver, Colorado, filed an amicus curiae brief of The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 38 media organizations in support of Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before HOLMES, KELLY, and BACHARACH, Circuit Judges.


After Plaintiff-Appellee Levi Frasier video-recorded Denver police officers using force while arresting an uncooperative suspect in public, one of the officers followed Mr. Frasier to his car and asked him to provide a statement on what he had seen and to turn over his video of the arrest. Mr. Frasier at first denied having...

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