Stuart Morrison, Staff Writer
Officer Lane was dispatched to the Social Sciences Building on the afternoon of Nov. 4 in reference to a suspicious male recording video in the second floor men’s bathroom. Upon arrival, the officer checked both the men’s and women’s bathroom, but found nothing.
Officer Lane met then with person who reported the suspicious male, whom had appeared to be holding his phone through the cracks of the bathroom stall and recording people while they were using the facilities.
The person who reported the incident said he yelled at the suspicious male, left the stall and waited outside. He then confronted the suspicious male once he came out of the restroom, demanding to see his phone.
The suspicious male with showed him pictures on his phone, and but did not initially show the videos. When asked to show the videos on his phone, the suspicious male suddenly became very nervous and began deleting the videos once he pulled them up.
Meanwhile, there was an Emerson Police Officer in the restroom that who heard what was going on and identified himself as an officer. When asked later, the officer said that he had identified himself in order to keep the confrontation from becoming physical, and observed the other male deleting files from his phone. The compliant said that he had not reported the event earlier because he didn’t want to get anyone in trouble.
