"Bill W" wrote in message
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On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 17:49:04 -0700, charles wrote:

On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 17:17:29 -0700, Bill W
wrote:

On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 18:54:50 -0400, Tony Cooper
wrote:

http://petapixel.com/2015/03/07/la-t...s-not-a-crime/

I wish the story had a lot more detail. I'd like to know what court
this was filed in, and if there was any court decision at all, or
just
an out of court settlement. The other issue is that it also sounds
like the named situations could be taken as homeland security
concerns. There is no question that cops in some places, including
where I live, have become violent with people photographing them
during police activity. That certainly needs to stop, but I don't
think anything will completely stop this sort of thing when there is
a
homeland security excuse.


A bit more

https://www.aclusocal.org/supervisor...ee-settlement/

This makes it much easier to understand the position of the police:
"suspicious activity reporting" programs designed to train officers to
report certain activities believed to have a potential link to
terrorism." It kind of looked like that, and I wonder why it was left
out of the other article. It almost sounds like someone at Petapixel
has an agenda. I'm certainly not arguing that the cops did nothing
wrong, but at the same time, you could get the impression from the
other article that they just harassed these guys out of the blue.

I have been on the wrong end of some menacing cops, and it seems clear
to me that cops do not like cameras in general.

It's a strange place we have come to when legal activity becomes
suspicious activity. It is perfectly legal to photograph in a public
place.