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El Reg has a nice piece on how various police up and down the country are harassing photographers taking pictures in public spaces.
It's a subject I've been following for a while but it's rarely covered these days.
Like the Doherty piece put up, it has a classic piece of police logic:
"there were individuals who had learnt how to use cameras at demonstrations as a means to wind individual officers up"
Though how this could be classed as a "fair comment" is up for debate. The comment is especially ironic given police use of "forward intelligence teams" of photographers who are used to intimidate protesters and in some cases, used by forces to incite protests as a means of justifiably breaking them up...
Read the full, sorry tale here.
It's a subject I've been following for a while but it's rarely covered these days.
Like the Doherty piece put up, it has a classic piece of police logic:
"there were individuals who had learnt how to use cameras at demonstrations as a means to wind individual officers up"
Though how this could be classed as a "fair comment" is up for debate. The comment is especially ironic given police use of "forward intelligence teams" of photographers who are used to intimidate protesters and in some cases, used by forces to incite protests as a means of justifiably breaking them up...
Read the full, sorry tale here.