Police give explanation for moving man's home security cam

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) A Wichita man says a police office turned his surveillance camera, so he called WPD to find out why. In the video, you see two officers step onto his porch, look at the ground and then one of the officers moves the surveillance camera, so you can no longer see them. Kameron Prouse saw the video Monday morning, and he said WPD told him it was for their safety. "I was just astounded that the camera was turned," said Prouse. "I didn't see any reason as to why it was turned. If they have body cameras on to see they're safety, I have my own camera for my safety, so I don't understand why mine was shut off or disabled or whatever you want to call it, and that put me in fear of my family." Just befor the officers step onto his porch you see some type of spark fly onto the porch in the left corner of the screen and another in the distance. "It could have been a bug," said Prouse. "It could have been something tossed. It could have been a cigarette that one of the officers might have been smoking, I don't know." Moments later, two officers come up onto his porch. "Then he starts kicking something around," said Prouse. "That's the only thing that really made me nervous." Then the officer sees one of his surveillance cameras and turns it. It took a phone call to police for Prouse to get an explanation. He said police told him they were responding to a domestic disturbance call at his home. "He explained to me that certain people are ambushing the police nowadays, and with that being done, he needed to turn off... basically disable it, so I could not look at the camera and see where they were at on my porch," said Prouse. "I guess they feared for their safety." He was asleep when this happened, but he still has questions. He said he didn't hear anything last night, and there was no dispute at his home. Prouse wants to know who told police there was a disturbance and why police didn't try harder to get in touch with him. Police told KWCH they are looking into it, and a spokesperson for WPD wasn't sure if it is policy to turn surveillance cameras like you see in the video.

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