Hold the Front Page: Union set to take student journalist’s case toIPCC

A dispute between police and the National Union of Journalists over officers confiscating a video filmed by a student journalist could be taken to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

Lewis Stainer was filming in November when he caught footage of an arrest on camera during the Occupy Nottingham protest.

He claimed the police used excessive force and should not have taken his video tape, leading the Nottingham branch of the National Union of Journalists to intervene on his behalf.

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