A police officer in Colorado used evidence from Flock cameras to wrongfully accuse an innocent woman for package theft, then yelled at her on the phone when she told him she had evidence that exonerated her, according to body camera footage obtained by 404 Media.

The nightmare situation happened in September in Columbine Valley, Colorado and was first reported by The Colorado Sun, which obtained Ring camera footage from the woman, Christina Elser, that showed an initial interaction with Sergeant Jamie Milliman at her home. 404 Media has obtained body camera footage of that interaction as well as footage from a phone call Milliman made to Elser after he gave her a court summons.

The incident highlights not only the extreme extent to which America's cities and towns are surveilled, but also the fact that police believe this surveillance evidence, which in this case was used to wrongfully summons Elser to court, is infallible and bulletproof. It also shows that anyone can be caught in America's surveillance dragnet; there is no safety in the idea that you have nothing to worry about if you have nothing to hide.

"You know we have cameras in that town. You can't get a breath of fresh air in or out of that place without us knowing," Milliman told Elser and her husband at her home, referring to Flock automated license plate reader cameras in the nearby town of Bow Mar. He then told her the town's Flock cameras had recorded her vehicle entering and leaving the town 20 times in the last month, including on Tuesday, September 22 "from 11:52 until 12:09, exactly," he said. "Like I said, nothing gets in or out of the town without us knowing about it ... I have you on camera walking up, ringing the doorbell, taking the package, and literally running away. I have you on camera doing this ... I get that this is a shock to you, but I am telling you, this is a lock, 100 percent no doubt she did this."

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