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Posted by BMTLines on Mon Mar 8 18:08:53 2010, in response to Re: Visiting Photojournalist Harrassed by New Jersey Transit, posted by Allan on Mon Mar 8 15:52:01 2010. I feel it is the other way around - the authorities are inviting press coverage by continuing to harass and challenge photographers. The solution is very simple - treat cameras like the legal piece of equipment they are and leave photographers alone yet for whatever reason the authorities refuse to do this.As for Carlos - he has personally been involved in 2 major incidents. The first one was the incident that prompted the creation of his blog. He was on a public street taking pictures of a police action - something that anyone (especially the pres) is perfectly within their rights to do. He was arrested and convicted for "resisting arrest" but he won the case on appeal - the trial judge was virtually ripped a new one by the appellate court. He was arrested in a similar incident a year later and that one is currently pending. He pursues stories and tries to get pictures of police action - something photojournalists do. For whatever reason police do not like their picture taken and it seems that they are now going to extraordinary lengths to harass press photographers. I support Carlos because without people like him the issue would not be receiving the attention that it does and by now photography on the subway and elsewhere would probably have been effectively banned. If every photographer challenged authority like Carlos does perhaps the cops and their superiors would finally respect the laws as written and stop enforcing frontier justice on the streets. |
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