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Police Stop Journalists From Photographing Metrorail System

Posted by Soulskill on from the don't-cloud-this-issue-with-facts dept.

schwit1 writes with this excerpt from Reason.com: "Carlos Miller, who runs the Photography Is Not a Crime blog, and veteran photojournalist Stretch Leford decided to test the photography rules in Miami-Dade's metrorail system. Before embarking on their test, they obtained written assurance from Metro Safety and Security Chief Eric Muntan that there's no law against non-commercial photography on the system. The two didn't make it past the first station before they were stopped. Employees of 50 State Security, the private firm contracted to provide the metro's security, stopped the pair first. They then called in local police. The private firm and the police then threatened the two with arrest, demanded their identification (to check them against a terrorist watch list), demanded multiple times that they stop filming, and eventually 'banned' Miller and Ledford from the metro system 'for life' (though it's doubtful they had the authority to do so)."

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  1. Re:Hmmm... by fyngyrz · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Unfortunately, the only way to really fix this is to go ahead and get arrested.

    Nothing will turn this around. This is the fruit of the "for the children" insanity combined with the "Terry-wrists! Terry-wrists!" insanity. All getting arrested will do is (a) cost you a shitload of money and time which you will not get back in full, and (b) eventually get you lynched by the surrounding crowd if you give the "authorities" trouble. After which, they'll all go have a beer and laugh at the beating you took.

    Can't be fixed. They've found a perfect combination of imaginary threats to keep the population in line. You stick your head up, they'll bring out the mallet and smash it right back down where they think it's supposed to be.

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  2. Re:It's the sun by gbutler69 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, a you should be ass raped daily by a nigger horse-cock. Oh wait, you'd probably like that.

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  3. Re:What were they really doing? by GNT · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You pretentious fascist asshat. I routinely DO NOT CARRY ID. There is NO REASON, in a country based on liberty and freedom, to have ANY ID at all, let alone so a pig can ask you for "Your Papers please".

    I'm also a photographer and the absurdity of the "don't photograph" crowd, in violation of First, Ninth and Tenth Amendments is unfathomable to me.

    These people had a RIGHT to do what they did. It wasn't a privilege. The gov is clearly in the wrong here.