The photo police are on the prowl

This is nuts! They are in the public eye!!!! They should be subject to photography!

Say cheese bitches! If we get busted they run us downtown and do what?!?...take our picture! If they don't like it, get a desk job!

Paranoia has set in....poor guy. I can't believe they did that, and the communication is very poor between marketing and the workers of Amtrak. Don't blame the guy for writing everyone, I would too! Hope he gets to travel around the world.

they get to record us why can't we record them...

seems like if these companies .. AMTRAK and jetBlue are going to sponsor contests encouraging customers to photograph and videotape their businesses for possible use in promotion.. offering rewards for the winner.. their own corporate law enforcers should be savvy ...

CCTV FOR EVERYONE !!!

Bunch of power-tripping assholes, what else would you expect from a bunch of metro police?

They're not trying to keep things safe, they're just cruising for a fight. I bet they were hoping he would resist so they could beat the shit out of him.

It's O.K. for big brother to take pictures and videos of us yet we don't have that same right. Why don't we just end it and become a police country because we aren't the land of the free anymore. They tell us what we can eat, where to smoke, how to raise our kids. It's getting to crazy. I love this country but I hate the direction we are headed.

anyone who believes that the cops care about right and wrong has never been in that situation. To them it was personal, just like the guy that got shoved off his bike and then the cop charged the BIKER with assault. They told him to do something and he refused! At that point it didnt matter what was legal or not. That guy WILL win, but he had to spend 90 min handcuffed in a cell. (lucky it wasnt longer) ANY time you tell a cop YOU know the law better than he does, youve made it personal. and thats why the tight handcuffs. "how does that feel perry mason?" Now thats the real reason they dont want the cameras there, they can disprove the way they said it went down. But unfortunately there are never any consequences for these cops. The guy on the bike that was pushed over by the cop, could have been looking at a felony charge for assaulting a cop and got lucky that there was a vid. But what about the cop that lied, and his partner who backed up his story (lied)? Are they arrested, (for assault) or even reprimanded? Not on your life!

Hilter succeeded in creating a state of paranoia, and Bush has succeeded in the same. But now that everybody realizes it, nobody wants to stop this insanity. The police actually like the powers they have been given. These new "powers" that allow them to make their own laws, and then falsely arrest people, and abuse them. Then it's up to the citizens to defind themselves against false charges. With the Police, you are guilty until you prove yourself innocent. Just like in China.

Our own Police Force have been turned into Hitlers Secret Police Force.

Stand up for your rights America. Otherwise, they will be taken away... one by one.

They don't want to be photographed because it might comer back to haunt them - if they shoot somebody, for instance.

What will it take before we revolt against this campaign to remove our civil rights? Its happening all around us and nobody seems to care.

Will it take the death of another child to spark a revolution here in america?

Lets fart on them!

This is typical behavior for america, isn't it?

I don't mean to sound flippant but do you expect less from america?

It seems the only people surprised by this type of stuff are the american people themselves.

I mean, really, have you been asleep for the last 8 years? You allowed this type of action to be the norm in your country. Stop acting shocked.

Lack of freedom is known to be as american as baseball and apple pie.

Again, I'm not joking. This is not surprising in the least. If you told me the story and asked me to guess what country it came from I would guess USA first, Britain second.

abusing authority is international, it has nothing to do with where you live, its a human defect

Hmm... that's quite the double standard, that is. It is illegal to photograph without consent in the presence of an officer, but paparazzi get away with it all the time. If this is to be upheld, shouldn't the paparazzi be held accountable?

Unbelievable

QCBUCKI,

And so ends that song of Imperial triumph over foreign tyranny which ended -

"Rule Brittania!
Brittania rules the waves!
Britons nevernevernever
shall be slaves..."

Ah, not til now.

Breaking the Law, To Enforce the Law.

Pareo Nullus

When someone is detained, there must be clear statements from the enforcers as to WHY the person is being held or arrested. Anything less is a violation of rights, and telling them AFTER they are in house is not a substitute for this. Prior to detainment, one must be informed of the situation, not doing so leaves the cops or arresting officials open to official scrutiny and is a sure-fire way to get the charges to NOT stick...............
damn the man without a plan

Will the common American not realize he lives in a cotemporary Nazi Germany until he sees the concentration camps for himself?

I'm not saying that the officers were right in this situation, they most certainly were not.
But...
The photographer could have taken steps to thwart this from happening. He should have downloaded and printed the contests rules from the website, also a photographer's rights document which is available online from legal websites.
He also should not have allowed them to detain him without question. That was a mistake. Just because an officer approaches you and says you are under arrest does not mean they can do it without telling the person why they are being arrested.
I hope he wins the suit.

While there are some good cops out there I still think that most of them think their shit doesnt stink and enjoy pushing people around. Just like pedophiles gravitate to jobs that let them get close to children (like gym teachers or school custodians) people who get off on power trips become cops. usually the worst ones are too loony for real police departments and they end up like these guys: transit rentacops. If we spent as much effort putting bad cops in prison as we do people caught smoking pot we might get somewhere.

Guess what? IT'S NOT ILLEGAL to take photos in public!
Out of control powermad cops NEED to be photographed at every chance! I only wish I'd recorded the phone call I got from a Detective "investigating" (read "attempting to blackmail Me !") My reclaiming of MY dog from My Ex & Her new boy-toy... While He was on speaker-phone @ My end of the call, with a witness listening in, He can still deny what He said when & if it gets to court!

It should be a civic and social duty to record the behavior of our police, bureaucrats and elected officials.

Never let your government off the hook. They MUST be held accountable to the public.