They came with cameras and they left in handcuffs.

On Labor Day weekend two years ago, three self-proclaimed “First Amendment auditors” — people who purposely test their constitutional protections, often by filming police officers and other public officials — arrived in downtown Colorado Springs as bars let out.

The trio zeroed in on a handful of officers who were speaking with other people in a parking lot about a fight. The auditors stood a few feet from the officers and filmed them. Colorado Springs police Officer Kristopher Czajkowski told the trio to move back several times.

Then the officer started a countdown.

“You have five seconds to move this way, over into this parking spot,” he said, according to video posted online . “Five, four, three, two, one. You are all under arre

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