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Re: ROBBED BY A COP— AGAIN! (PLEASE READ; NYCLU Needs Your Help!)

Posted by TimLawNYC on Fri Feb 22 02:38:27 2008, in response to ROBBED BY A COP— AGAIN!, posted by Nilet on Wed Feb 20 20:45:31 2008.

Hello,

I am a law student, and I'm currently working with the NYCLU on photography rights issues. Many of you might have heard about the lawsuit we filed last fall on behalf of Arun Wiita, a Columbia grad student who was handcuffed for taking pictures in and around a Manhattan subway station.

I'm posting in response to Nilet's recent account of his encounter with police at GCT. Nilet, I've sent you an e-mail; please post here if for some reason you didn't receive it.

For everybody else, the NYCLU is interested in knowing about any experiences you have being harassed or detained by police while taking photographs. We know that this problem is widespread and pernicious, and the more stories we can amass to help us prove it, the better for us to create some policy changes. So, if any of you get detained by police while photographing, please let me know--you can email me, call the NYCLU, or post here (listed in descending order of effectiveness). Informing us of what happened does not guarantee you any sort of representation, but NOT letting us know about it guarantees you NO representation. We do pay attention to what's happening on SubChat, so if you post here, we'll probably see it (but I can't guarantee it).

Thanks for taking the time to read this, and thanks in advance for helping us out!

---Tim

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