The brothers were arrested at their southeast Houston home on Jan. 4, 2002, when Sean Ibarra took pictures of an officer during a drug raid at their next-door neighbor's house after a neighbor asked him to document how deputies were treating the children there.

The Ibarras allege the deputies then burst into their home without a warrant and arrested them without probable cause, destroying film in their camera and yanking the memory stick out of a videocamera. An attorney defending the deputies told jurors the undercover officers feared such pictures could expose their faces to the public and endanger their lives.

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Still, she stopped short of calling the deputies' actions criminal.

"This is more from the standpoint of a Fourth Amendment violation ... It's an unlawful seizure," Cook said. "I wouldn't call it a theft."

I wish those clips were aired on COPS.