In my almost septuagenarian mind, hovering a camera a few feet over two young sunbathing girls has only one purpose. If a cop fails to grasp that, he's a damn poor cop. If a prosecutor fails to grasp that, he ought to be fired immediately.
It was a very bad idea to shoot at the thing, but he had every right to "confiscate" it by any other means available to him. As I said in my first post pages ago, the need to preserve evidence such as the copter owner's fingerprints justifies knocking the thing out of the air.
Were I a judge there, I'd be happy to sign a search warrant to see if the copter owner has child porn on his computer. Because I'd agree that there's probable cause based on this event.
