A Coosada man was arrested Tuesday after response to a video of his encounter with Wetumpka police officers created "chaos" and jammed the police department's phone system, according to the police department.

Wetumpka police claim Lynwood Keith Golden, who operates the YouTube page Bama Camera, encouraged viewers of his video to contact the police department.

The police department then received a barrage of "obscene, threatening and racially motivated" phone calls that crippled the phone system, police said. The response also forced the department to shut down its Facebook page.

Callers to the Wetumpka Police Department on Wednesday are greeted with the message: "Due to a technical difficulty, we can't accept your call at this time."

Golden was charged with interference with public safety communications due to the "chaos" his video created.

According to a video on Bama Camera, Golden filmed outside the Wetumpka Police Department headquarters on June 2 to exercise his First Amendment rights. He told officers he was a journalist working on a story.

The video shows several police officers approach Golden and ask him his name and why he was filming.

"I don't care about your First Amendment rights," one officer said. "I am asking why you are filming.

"I don't know if you are terrorist," another officer said.

Wetumpka police claims Golden refused to show officers his identification.

"Mr. Golden refused to identify himself or his reasoning for the film, so his actions were deemed suspicious to the officers," the city of Wetumpka stated in a press release. "After a brief investigation, Mr. Golden was deemed to be no immediate threat and released at that time."

Golden was arrested after he allegedly asked people "to begin mass communications" against the department.

"This sparks computer generated calling to the parties filmed in the videos, social media attacks on the municipalities involved, family members of officers and civilians, emails to the local governments and threats to the officer's lives," stated the press release.

Wetumpka police say the large volume of calls jammed the department's phone system blocking their "ability to notify ambulance and fire service of emergency calls.

"Due to the intentional acts of Bama Camera and Keith Golden, the phone system of the Wetumpka Police Department was jammed to the point of crippling our communications system. Calls have been obscene, threatening and racially motivated and hindering dispatchers from answering 911 calls," the police department stated in a release.

"The police department Facebook page was attacked by Bama Camera affiliates, forcing the department to unpublish the page to prevent our citizen's from being contacted through private messages with racial slurs and spam emails," the release also stated.

The police department also claims the city's emergency domestic violence shelter was forced to close because the department lacked manpower to properly manage the facility while assisting dispatchers in fielding the barrage of calls.