Remember that apparent arrest of over a dozen guys in the Bayview that was recorded on video because they were actually in the middle of shooting a video at the time? Well, now the guys who shot the video have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the SFPD and the arresting officers saying that they were subjected to "an unreasonable search, seizure, arrest, conspiracy to arrest and humiliation at gunpoint." The suit is seeking unspecified damages in connection with the incident, which occurred on March 8.

The video was for a track called "Demo" by local hip hop artist Yung Lott, a.k.a. Arthur Stern, and Stern is named as a plaintiff in the case along with videographer Brian MacArthur and two other men, as the Chronicle reports.

Here's one of Yung Lott's last tweets, from March 20.

The SFPD arrested two men that day, including Richmond resident Taj Williams, who may have been their target arrestee to begin with. He was arrested on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a loaded semi-automatic handgun.

The lawsuit suggests that the SFPD was negligent in identifying Williams as possibly being armed and then allowing him to approach the crowd shooting the video, of whom he was not a part. The suit states that police "willfully and/or recklessly allowed Taj Williams to enter the group of musicians with a loaded gun," given information that they had about him, and then created this "dangerous condition in order to manufacture cause to conduct a search of the entire group."

During the search, individuals had their faces and tattoos photographed, just for police files — a scenario not unlike the one that unfolded at the Hall of Justice in January, which led to deputy public defender Jami Tillotson trying to intervene on her client's behalf to keep an investigator from forcing him to be photographed.

Below you can see the footage that just preceded the searches and arrests.