Of course the officer denied that he was sleeping, but the student was pretty sure that the officer, sitting in his patrol car, did not leave the parking lot for at least 3 hours.
Watch what happened after Matt Fedora, a student at Southern Illinois University, approached the Carbondale cop and questioned why he is sitting in his patrol car for “the past 3 hours” and not out there fighting crime. To make a long story short, the cop vehemently denied he was sleeping, and then told the student that it was “illegal” to videotape a sleeping police officer.
“It’s perfectly legal to video (record) people in public, specifically police officers,” said Jane Adams, a Carbondale city councilwoman.
Carbondale Police Chief said that matter is being investigated.
