Being a photographer and co-owner of the [much in need of an update] Freedom to Photograph site, stories of photographers done wrong tend to get under my skin. A freelance photographer was shooting a police scene in progress from a public street; the rest goes down hill, fast.

A photojournalist who goes by the name RaginginMiami was on assignment shooting Biscayne Blvd in Miami and was shooting a police action from a public street. The police asked him not to photograph them and he continued, resulting in a forceful arrest and his being charged with multiple infractions over the incident. He ended up spending 16 hours in a Miami Dade jail.

Thomas Hawk is doing an excellent job covering this, all of the links to the stories are below, and some are starting to die because the story is getting picked up by nearly every news outlet, so if they don’t work now, please try them again in a few hours. Stories like this need to be read by the tax paying public.

Thomas has also provided PDF downloads of the police reports, they can be found in the last article link.

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