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Posted by Nilet on Mon Oct 15 20:17:18 2007, in response to Re: Scoping out the System [Photos], posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Oct 14 21:45:43 2007.  The worst he could have done was called the police, and the police would have most likely been on your side (assuming their rulebook was up to date and showed the same text as your printout does). I don't know. I met a cop today who declared that my printout of 1050.9(c) wasn't "really" the rules. He said that the MTA doesn't make the law and that the NYPD said that photography was illegal. He actually went so far as to ask: "Are you willing to bet your freedom that you're right about the law?" (I should have said, "YES! But I'm not willing to bet that you know the law.) In retrospect, I should have asked him (on camera, since I tape everything now) "I hope to continue filming. If I do, will you arrest me?" That way, he has to give me permission to keep filming or illegally force me to stop a legal activity on camera, in which case I'd stop filming and send the tape to the CCRB as soon as I could. Incidentally, I asked the cop which supervisor told him that photography is illegal. He said that he wasn't told as such by a specific supervisor; it's common "knowledge" in the police department. He also said, when I pointed out that the MTA website says photography is legal, that the NYPD, not the MTA makes the laws (!) and that the NYPD website says photography is illegal in the subway. So I'm wondering— do I send this tape to the CCRB, even though he didn't specifically do anything blatantly illegal? Or are we going to have to bring in the NYCLU and get an official memo issued like was the case with the LIRR? Or should we alert the newspapers? |
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