police take camera from photographer

[poah]

taken from dpreview

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/rea


wonder what he did and why they took his camera particualrly if he was press I can't see what right the police would have to take his camera

[imperialism2024]

The police can do whatever they want? That's my guess...

[beano500]

Whoa!


Unless he was using a Nikon in a built up Canon zone...

...we still (almost) have a free country????

[robdickinson]

beano500 said:

...we still (almost) have a free country????

Oh how naive... GB became a police state 5 years ago, wake up!

[poah]

imperialism2024 said:

The police can do whatever they want? That's my guess...

but they can't.

[imperialism2024]

Quinny said:

poah said:

imperialism2024 said:

The police can do whatever they want? That's my guess...

but they can't.

No, but they think they can

And no one's really going to question them about it. I believe here in the US, the excuse would go "September 11th".

[jwyatt]

I've heard about this happening, via photography magazines, and there is an excellent document linked to in the "POLICE HASSELING PHOTOGRAPHERS AT CRUISES " thread (2nd page here) which highlights the actual law.

The police are OTT whenever they feel like it. There was a story in a paper a while back about a guy who had his car searched at random in London. They found.... a small penknife in the boot. They then went to town about it being an offensive weapon and when he became indignant, threw him in the cells for the night and prosecuted him for it.

If they can use anti-terrorism laws to throw some old guys out of a labour party conference because they dared to try and debate something, they can do anything!

[joust]

jwyatt said:

If they can use anti-terrorism laws to throw some old guys out of a labour party conference because they dared to try and debate something, they can do anything!

That wasn't the police that started that, that was the labour party 'heavies'.

J