🚨 If a UK Officer Says "Delete That Video" — Say THIS (Deleting It Yourself Can Be a Crime)

Make Them Pay: https://knowrightsuk.gumroad.com/l/make_them_pay You're on a pavement, you start filming a stop across the road, and an officer walks over and says three words: delete that video. Most people either argue, or delete it on the spot to make the problem go away. The polite option is the one that can land you in far more trouble than the filming ever could — especially if you delete it later, at home, shaken. 📋 WHAT THIS VIDEO COVERS — What published police guidance tells officers about people filming in public places — What officers are told to say: not being detained, free to leave, free to continue — Why being asked why you're filming is not the same as having to answer — The line in that guidance: no power to delete or confiscate without a court order — When a phone can still be seized as evidence, and what to do if it is — The three things to say, calmly and from a sensible distance — The trap: deleting footage yourself, and perverting the course of justice — Section 58A of the Terrorism Act, the real legal limit on filming police — Why getting in the way is obstruction under section 89 of the Police Act 1996 🔎 SOURCES Police guidance to officers on public filming and photography, published by West Midlands Police. CPS legal guidance on public justice offences. Section 58A of the Terrorism Act 2000. Section 89 of the Police Act 1996. Rice v Connolly (1966). Every source is on screen as I read it. ⚠️ THE PART TO REMEMBER Refusing to delete a recording, calmly and from a distance, is lawful. Deleting it yourself afterwards, if you know it is evidence, can be perverting the course of justice. If your phone is seized as evidence: comply, never resist. Refuse consent, never a lawful order. Never delete anything on it. FREE HELP FIRST. The duty solicitor at a police station costs you nothing, ever, at any hour. Always the free route before anybody paid. 📘 Make Them Pay — how a complaint about a police encounter is actually made, with five template letters and the parts you fill in marked in brackets: https://knowrightsuk.gumroad.com/l/make_them_pay England and Wales only — Scotland is different. This is general legal education, not advice about your situation or your recording. I am a solicitor but not your solicitor. Has this happened to you — told to stop filming or delete something? Type the county, nothing else. #knowyourrights #ukLaw #filmingpolice #policepowers #righttorecord