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Interference or over reaching cop?
Nick Morris, Photographer
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Andrew Link, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Winona | MN | USA | Posted: 11:35 AM on 04.11.11 |
| ->> Not much interfering going on, but if I were the photographer in that situation, I wouldn't be walking up that close and sticking my camera over their shoulder as the cops are talking to a driver. Give them some space to do their work. That's my opinion. |
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Bob Ford, Photographer
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Lehighton | Pa | USA | Posted: 12:10 PM on 04.11.11 |
| ->> Andrew, that's the first thing I thought. No need to be that close in that situation. Without knowing all of the details I would bet that the videographer was hoping to get a reaction from the police. |
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Geoff Miller, Photographer
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Portage | MI | USA | Posted: 2:29 PM on 04.12.11 |
| ->> I also would like to know what the officer said to the videographer right before the clip starts. It seems pretty obvious that there was an exchange that we don't see/hear. If it was the officer asking the guy to shoot from a distance and he then decided to march up to the scene and try and prove a point, then the actions of the police are at least a _little_ more understandable. |
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Willis Glassgow, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Florence | SC | USA | Posted: 3:40 PM on 04.12.11 |
| ->> That might be true with all that has been mentioned above, but the police handled this situation VERY badly. First of all, all he needed to do, was go up nicely to the guy and say,"hey, just give us a moment here to explain everything to this nice young woman and afterwards you can get all the interviews you need". Would that have worked?.....Maybe, maybe not. But as I have mentioned many times in the past in this forum, this is a SYSTEMIC problem all over the country with police. They feel they are above the law that they themselves are supposed to be enforcing. This is about them doing what they want when they want and no one to tell them no. It's that simple. As a long time photojournalist and dealing with police for many years, this problem has gotten progressively worse over the years and i don;t see it getting better. There is a major divide right now in our country and police are mostly on the far right and media mostly to the left and its getting ugly. |
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Kevin Novak, Photographer, Assistant
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Bel Air (Baltimore) | MD | USA | Posted: 6:15 PM on 04.12.11 |
->> Gee, Willis,
While I can understand your frustration here and respect your right to vent, don't you think you're wielding a rather broad brush there? |
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Yamil Sued, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Peoria | AZ | USA | Posted: 6:41 PM on 04.12.11 |
->> I agree with Geoff, I would like to see what actually happened just before the Cameras started rolling, or when the clip started, heck, Video can be edited out.
I've had bad experiences with a Volunteer Policeman just recently at an event I was shooting, he wouldn't allow me to shoot from the same exact place I had shoot the FOUR previous years, so my results were less than good this year.
BUT, I would still want to get the WHOLE story, not a partial Video of an encounter, what happened before and after the cameras rolled (Or video shown) |
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Primoz Jeroncic, Photographer
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Kranj | SI | Slovenia | Posted: 7:27 AM on 04.13.11 |
->> When it comes to this, I'm (almost) never on police side, but there's another thing. Why did he need to push it? He's journalist, he's reporter, he's I don't know what else. So what was there to report? Women getting police ticket? Big deal. So why to bother with that, except to show off that you can do it, and you have right to stick camera under policeman's nose.
Sure police handled this badly, but if this guy would be smart enough, there would be no need for anyone to handle this anyway. Women getting ticket is not news, so why to bother? |
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Willis Glassgow, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Florence | SC | USA | Posted: 9:19 AM on 04.13.11 |
->> Kevin,
You're right, my brush was pretty broad there. I should've stated that I was speaking in general terms. For that I apologize. I should've been more exact.
I also agree with Primoz, a lady getting a ticket is not really news. |
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Doug Strickland, Photographer
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Chattanooga | TN | USA | Posted: 11:22 AM on 04.13.11 |
->> One of the first things I learned in school is that, whether I have the right to photograph or not, when a police officer tells me to back up or to stop, I stop. Period. They can arrest you for any manner of things besides simply taking photographs, such as interfering with their duties, ESPECIALLY if you get right up behind them like this photographer did. It won't stick of course, but you'll go to jail. Is getting a picture of a lady getting a traffic ticket really so important that you're willing to spend a night in jail? This is definitely not what newspaper shooters do. If a cop tells you to back off, then you go around and find a new way to get the picture, you don't do something that you know will get you thrown in jail. When that happens, you definitely don't get the shot, and doing it to prove a point or flex your rights muscles hasn't done you any good at all when you get back to your editor the next day without a photo.
Was this cop right here? Probably not, but the photographer was either stupid or pushing the cop for a reaction. |
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