“Not once, not twice, not five times, not 10, but a total of 60 times he is told to get out of that crime scene.”
A jury trial opened Tuesday for the bystander who livestreamed the police response to the Boulder King Soopers mass shooting last year.
Schiller, who regularly films police activity around Boulder, began livestreaming the attack before officers arrived at the grocery store. “They tell him to back off — for his safety, for officer safety, so they can focus on doing their job,” she told jurors. Schiller’s attorneys, Tiffany Drahota and David Lane, argued that Schiller never physically obstructed the police or threatened to use violence or force to stop them from doing their jobs, and so his actions did not rise to the crime of obstruction.She pointed out that the law requires a person to act knowingly in order to commit the crime of obstruction, and said Schiller had no intention of obstructing officers, and in fact never came between an officer and the grocery store.