Arrest on Franklin on 10/28/2014

Your rights as a photographer:

• When in public spaces where you are lawfully present you have the right to photograph anything that is in plain view. That includes pictures of federal buildings, transportation facilities, and police. Such photography is a form of public oversight over the government and is important in a free society.
• When you are on private property, the property owner may set rules about the taking of photographs.
  If you disobey the property owner's rules, they can order you off their
  property (and have you arrested for trespassing if you do not comply).
• Police officers may not confiscate or demand to view your digital photographs or video without a warrant. The Supreme Court has ruled
  that police may not search your cell phone when they arrest you, unless
  they get a warrant. Although the court did not specifically rule on
  whether law enforcement may search other electronic devices such as a
  standalone camera, the ACLU believes that the constitution broadly
  prevents warrantless searches of your digital data. It is possible that
  courts may approve the temporary warrantless seizure of a camera in
  certain extreme “exigent” circumstances such as where necessary to save a
  life, or where police have a reasonable, good-faith belief that doing
  so is necessary to prevent the destruction of evidence of a crime while
  they seek a warrant.
• Police may not delete your photographs or video under any circumstances. Officers have faced felony charges of evidence tampering as well as obstruction and theft for taking a photographer’s memory card.
• Police officers may legitimately order citizens to cease
  activities that are truly interfering with legitimate law enforcement
  operations. Professional officers, however, realize that such
  operations are subject to public scrutiny, including by citizens
  photographing them.
• Note that the right to photograph does not give you a right to break any other laws. For example, if you are trespassing to take photographs, you may still be charged with trespass.

I have no doubt that the police punching this kid would take pleasure in punching this kid whether or not he had broken any drug laws (and that's not to say he did break any laws, but even if he were breaking laws, there are police who would take all too much pleasure in beating up a kid).