Ferguson: video shows Darren Wilson arresting man for recording him Mike Arman's recording of his encounter with Darren Wilson. Video footage has emerged showing Darren Wilson - the police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri - threatening and arresting a resident who refused to stop filming him with a cellphone. Wilson is seen standing near his Ferguson police SUV and warning Mike Arman: "If you wanna take a picture of me one more time, I'm gonna lock your ass up." Arman, who had requested Wilson's name, replies: "Sir, I'm not taking a picture, I'm recording this incident sir." The officer then walks to the porch of Arman's home and apprehends him, after telling him that he does not have the right to film. The 15-second clip was uploaded to YouTube on Friday but recorded in 2013, according to police documents. Arman, 30, was charged with failing to comply with Wilson's orders. He claimed in an interview on Saturday that the charge was dropped after he told his lawyer he had video footage of the incident. Arman, who runs a small housing non-profit, has a criminal record and has previously been charged with resisting arrest. "I was working on my porch with my toolbelt on and was being cordial," Arman said of the incident. But I wanted to safeguard myself by recording what happened. Filming police officers carrying out their duties is widely considered to be legal and protected by the first amendment of the US constitution. Court and police officials in Ferguson could not be reached for comment. When asked on Friday whether the officer in the video clip was Wilson, a spokesman for the Ferguson police department told the Guardian in an email: "I don't think that is him." The spokesman did not respond to further questions. But a police incident report confirms that Wilson arrested Arman at his home on Redmond Avenue on 28 October 2013. The report states Wilson had arrived to issue a court summons regarding derelict vehicles that were being left on the property in violation of city rules. Redacted images of the report were first published by the Free Thought Project. A still from Mike Arman's video of Darren Wilson. Photograph: Mike Arman/YouTube Wilson wrote in his report that Arman became upset and said he wanted to record the encounter. Wilson said he told him "a voice recording would be acceptable" but Arman "refused to answer any questions or co-operate as he lifted the phone to begin a video recording of myself" and "stated that I must state my name to him" as Wilson asked for more information on the vehicles. Arman disputed Wilson's account of the start of their encounter, saying that he "began recording within moments of Wilson approaching the property" and that Wilson only mentioned a voice recording being acceptable after Arman had been arrested. Despite being shown at the other end of Arman's garden path, Wilson wrote in his report that he told Arman "to remove the camera from my face." He claimed to have asked Arman to place his hands behind his back, which is not visible or audible from the recording. "I was forced to grab his wrists one at a time and secure them into handcuffs," Wilson wrote. Wilson drove Arman to the Ferguson police department headquarters where he was charged with failure to comply and breaching regulations on pit bull dogs. The officer noted that he had been unable to enter the rear yard of Arman's property "due to the pit bulls." Arman claimed that the charge relating to pit bulls was dropped when he proved his pet was a bulldog. A grand jury in St Louis is considering whether Wilson, now 28, should be charged for killing Brown in Ferguson on 9 August. Wilson shot Brown repeatedly after an altercation that followed Wilson stopping him and a friend for jaywalking. The officer has reportedly told investigators that he was assaulted by Brown and the 18-year-old threatened him further. Several witnesses said Brown was shot from some distance away after surrendering. Successive nights of protests over Brown's death were met with a militarised police presence and crackdown. The grand jury is due to announce its decision in "mid-to-late November," according to Bob McCulloch, the prosecuting attorney for St Louis County. The city is braced for potential unrest if Wilson is not indicted.