IRIZARRY v. YEHIA

No. 21-1247.

38 F.4th 1282 (2022)

Abade IRIZARRY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. A. YEHIA, Defendant-Appellee. First Amendment Scholars; Jane Bambauer; Ashutosh Bhagwat; Clay Calvert; Alan K. Chen; Margot E. Kaminski; Seth F. Kreimer; Justin F. Marceau; Helen Norton; Scott Skinner-Thompson; National Police Accountability Project; Cato Institute; Electronic Frontier Foundation; United States of America, Amici Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Filed July 11, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew T. Tutt , Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, D.C. ( Robert Reeves Anderson and David S. Jelsma , Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Denver, Colorado; Max Romanow , Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Chicago, Illinois; E. Milo Schwab , Ascend Counsel, LLC, Denver, Colorado, with him on the briefs) for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Alexander James Dorotik , City of Lakewood, Lakewood, Colorado, for Defendant-Appellee.

Natasha N. Babazadeh ( Kristen Clarke , Assistant Attorney General, Nicholas Y. Riley , Attorney, with her on the brief), U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., filed an amicus curiae brief for the United States of America.

Mukund Rathi , Sophia Cope , and Adam Schwartz , Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, California, filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of Plaintiff-Appellant, for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Clark M. Neily III and Jay R. Schweikert , Cato Institute, Washington, D.C., filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of Plaintiff-Appellant, for the Cato Institute.

Lauren Bonds , National Police Accountability Project, New Orleans, Louisiana, and David Milton , Boston, Massachusetts, filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of Plaintiff-Appellant, for the National Police Accountability Project.

Matthew R. Cushing and Elizabeth Truitt , University of Colorado Law School Appellate Advocacy Practicum, Boulder, Colorado, filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of Plaintiff-Appellant, for the First Amendment Scholars.

Before MATHESON, KELLY, and McHUGH, Circuit Judges.


Early in the morning on May 26, 2019, Abade Irizarry, a YouTube journalist and blogger, was filming a DUI traffic stop in Lakewood, Colorado. Officer Ahmed Yehia arrived on the scene and stood in front of Mr. Irizarry, obstructing his filming of the stop. When Mr. Irizarry and a fellow journalist objected, Officer Yehia...

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