DENVER — There is a new development in how Denver police handled the response to an alleged case of excessive force. It has to do with how the man who shot the video of the incident ended up in jail himself last week, and how the department is responding to the new controversy.

Levi Frasier recorded video last August of a Denver police officer punching an unarmed suspect in the face six times, and then tripping his pregnant girlfriend when she approached during the confrontation.

There is new video, also shot by Frasier, which raises new questions about DPD’s handling of video recorded by citizens.

When Levi Fraiser saw an unmarked Denver police cruiser slip behind his truck Thursday, December 11, he says he got a little nervous. Not because he knew he had expired temporary tags – but because two weeks prior he`d gone public with a complaint that DPD had harassed, intimidated, and threatened him with arrest for recording what he considered excessive force.

“I’m either the unluckiest man in the world or I’m being targeted and I’m used in a prejudiced way to prove a point that you don’t come out and say things against us without some kind of retaliatory force,” Fraiser said.

He admits he was wondering if his latest traffic stop was legit – so he hit record on his Samsung tablet  — that`s the same tablet he used to record a violent arrest of a suspected drug dealer in August that is now at the center of an internal affairs probe. It’s the same tablet he says DPD illegally seized from him in an attempt to erase evidence of how they acted during that earlier incident.

“I turned it on, flipped it over to camera real quick, let it play and set it right under my seat face up,” Fraiser said about recording his most recent encounter with police.

Denver police tell FOX31 Denver the officer had no idea who Frasier was when he pulled him over Thursday. But when they ran his name through their computers, they found a traffic warrant out of another county for failure to provide proof of car insurance. “I said, ‘am I under arrest?’ He pulled me out of the car and said, ‘Yeah you`re under arrest, what do you think?'”

In Fraiser’s recording, you can see the officer search the truck, find the tablet on the floor and then he turns it off. “You can see him sort of look at it and he hits the stop button. I didn’t know he had done that at the time,” Fraiser says.

The officer restarted the tablet’s record function, creating a second video file. He then asked Fraiser about it.

“Do you want this on for a reason?” the officer is heard asking on the new recording. “Yes, please,” Fraiser responded.

The police report about Thursday’s traffic stop and arrest doesn’t mention the recordings.

Denver Police Commander Matt Murray declined an interview, but told FOX31 Denver on the phone, “Whether (the officer) turned it off or not is irrelevant. It was not a search. The officer was only securing valuables out of the car as required by policy.”

Fraiser spent about 24 hours in Denver jail for failure to appear in court on two traffic tickets in Park County. We asked DPD how often such offenses result in incarceration, but have not received the answer yet.

Related: Citizen Oversight Board criticizes DPD over response to FOX31 story on excessive force