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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 timmarhy · · Score: -1, Troll
    so you admit the journalist was being aggressive, but somehow the young officer is the one over reacting?! police are NOT there to put up with your shit, inspite of what the spoilt brats of gen-y seem to believe. they aren't mommy and daddy who will put up with your temper tantrums, they are the enforcers of law and keepers of the peace. if this idiot thinks being questioned is the same as being threatened, he needs to try taking photo's somewhere like Columbia where they just beat you without even a hello.

    this guy is just a typical dickhead who thinks he can be as rude as he likes to everyone, yet whines like a little bitch when the inevitable happens.

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  2. Re:it's not a bad idea, and it's not costly by BasilBrush · · Score: -1, Troll

    they still made me stand-around in the hot sun for two hours. Why? I refused to pop my trunk. I politely told them if they get a search warrant from a judge, then I'll open the car, but I will not submit to an warrantless search. So they punished me.

    How long do you think it takes to get a search warrant? Two hours doesn't seem unreasonable if that's what you asked them to do.

    What did you have in your trunk by the way? Something you didn't want them to see, Or were you just being a pain in the ass for the sake of it?

  3. Re:it's not a bad idea, and it's not costly by BasilBrush · · Score: -1, Troll

    We should just voluntarily march into the gas chambers like polite little nobodies.

    Ah, you didn't mention that they put you in a gas chamber before. Only that they asked you to pop open your trunk. If you'd mentioned the gas chamber before I would have agree that that was unreasonable.

    You ever heard of Godwin's Law?

    If there's anything worse than jack booted Nazis, it's people who believe they have to behave as prats to the police, then call the police Nazis when they don't get their own way. Who extrapolate their little argument with the police into WWII analogies. It's pathetic.

  4. Re:it's not a bad idea, and it's not costly by c6gunner · · Score: -1, Troll

    I refused to pop my trunk. I politely told them if they get a search warrant from a judge, then I'll open the car, but I will not submit to an warrantless search. So they punished me.

    Naw, you punished yourself. You could have popped the trunk and been on your way 5 minutes later - instead you chose to play the martyr. It seems to me that you get a kick out of being "oppressed".