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Canadian Teenager Arrested For Photographing Mall Takedown

Posted by Soulskill on from the i'm-sure-it-was-a-polite-takedown dept.

blackfrancis75 writes "An aspiring teenage journalist in B.C., Canada who witnessed a mall takedown and decided to photograph it (using a real-film camera), was told to 'delete' the photo by security guards. He (quite legally) refused to do so, and when local police arrived they assisted mall security in pushing him to the ground, handcuffing him, cutting off his backpack with a utility knife and searching it. 'He said the security guards held him, attempting to grab his camera, and he was pushed to the ground. He said he then tried to use his body to protect two cameras he carried in his bag. "They're just yelling and screaming, and just telling me to stop resisting," Markiewicz said.'"

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  1. I'm sorry but.. by Time_Ngler · · Score: -1, Troll

    You shouldn't take pictures if you are unsure of the legality of doing so.

    1. Re:I'm sorry but.. by Hentes · · Score: -1, Troll

      Except that he wasn't in a public place but in a mall.

    2. Re:I'm sorry but.. by ScentCone · · Score: -1, Troll

      you shouldn't assault a kid when you are unsure of the legality of taking pictures

      You shouldn't use your hipster retro film cameras on someone's private property without asking, first, if the property owners are serious about the "no photography" policy that's posted on property (which is the case is almost every shopping mall in almost every country).

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    3. Re:I'm sorry but.. by AK+Marc · · Score: -1, Troll

      So says the one that should have killed himself.

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  2. Socialized medicine is only the beginning... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    First they take away your guns, then they promise you socialized medicine and other services, and the rest of your civil liberties soon disappear. Poor, poor Canucks.

  3. Damn You George Bush!!! Damn You!!! by Vinegar+Joe · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh, wait a second.....this was in Canada.

    Nevermind.

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    "The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
  4. Re:FREEZE! by Vinegar+Joe · · Score: 1, Troll

    That's why the US has the Second Amendment. It's to protect us from the government.........it's not about hunting or sports.

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    "The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
  5. Re:It smells like troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah, that's the problem. Failing to see the human rights violations in socialized medicine is the exactly the kind of blindness that will get you all the way to serfdom before you recognize the road you're on.

  6. ITT by Revotron · · Score: -1, Troll

    ITT: Slashdotters nerdrage over one side of a story. Other side nowhere to be found. And now, sports!

  7. Mental note by lightknight · · Score: 1, Troll

    Make it an executable offence for law enforcement of any type to fail to uphold the public good.

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  8. Re:lawsuit time? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You must be new to Canada, Vic Toews (Public Safety Minister) has empowered law enforcement to do as they please.

    This is one more of many many reason why smart people spend their
    tourist money elsewhere.

    No one with a brain is interested in visiting a police state, even if it is the
    half-assed sort of mess typical of everything else Canadians do.

  9. Re:lawsuit time? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    When a corporation kills, it's capitalism.