Your link has an extra space before html. It should be:
http://www.nbc10.com/news/9574663/detail.html
Regarding the question, camera phones and even digital cameras these days pose a number of ethical and privacy type questions. Lots of places have policies against camera phones and cameras. Many companies have policies against them as well. In this case it seems like an over reaction by the cops. If he was a news cameraman would they have prevented him from shooting?