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UK Police Threaten Teenage Photojournalist

Posted by kdawson on from the mightier-than-the-truncheon dept.

IonOtter writes "In what seems to be a common occurrence, and now a costly one, Metropolitan Police in the UK still don't seem to be getting the message that assaulting photographers is a bad idea. UK press photographer Jules Matteson details the event in his blog, titled The Romford Incident. The incident has already been picked up by The Register, The Independent, and the British Journal of Photography, which contains an official statement from the Metropolitan Police."

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  1. Re:it's not a bad idea, and it's not costly by BasilBrush · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Do you really believe that if he had, say, 20 pounds of heroin in his trunk he would have thought that just refusing the search would save him?

    It's certainly something he'd try.

    It was obviously a matter of principle (look it up) to him.

    Wasting police time is a matter of principle? Just think, in the time this guy wasted with the police, the police could have been doing what we pay them for.