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So why wasn’t Tipton arrested and charged with civil rights violations?

I think I’m going to write a ‘Groundhog Day’ song. F*cking bullshit. I need to yell something that everyone here knows: PHOTOGRAPHY OF ANYTHING FROM A PUBLIC STREET IS 100% LEGAL. PERIOD. No more yelling. For now.

Shows the overinflated ego’s of the Federales who imply that they have greater power to seize cameras than other law enforcement authorities. Seems that they don’t think the First and Fourth Amendment applies to them.

Interesting that the supervisor Gary McClelland stated: ORDINARILY OFFICERS DON’T PERMIT PHOTOGRAPHS BECAUSE OF THE NATURE OF THEIR JOBS, but the agency doesn’t want to hinder the media. So, even the supervisor thinks that they can limit public photography under the color of authority. I think this would have been really ugly if the photographer had not been a mainstream photojournalist.

Charles U. Farley

“He told me, ‘You don’t understand. We’re not local law enforcement here. We’re the federal government. We’ll take your gear right now,’” Nolan said.

Because being part of the federal government somehow magically makes it OK.

The gall of these douchebags.

Curious if Mr. Nolan or his bosses will let this die or keep it alive. Stories of federal officers interfering with a free press and a bullshit excuse from the port director justifying his actions shouldn’t be allowed to just fade away. It almost sounds like a play by play from a country like… China or Iran – you’d never guess it came from the USA.

Carlos pointed out “why should we believe the Customs officer was not at fault here?”

I have come to the point I believe nothing the police say. The other day a cop said “The sky is blue”, rain is wet, the earth is round, and Tuesday follows Monday, but I thought what a lying POS.

they will continue to operate above the law as long as they can bully the public into thinking they have “authority”. They have no authority they haven’t usurped, just like their boss the usurper wannabe pres. These criminals make the mafia look like boy scouts.

It is all a lie without video. Which they delete. See the trend. They do believe they are above the law. Read. We are feds.

All these egregious activities on the part of federal or state law enforcement just show a regrettable lack of professional training.

He was right when he said ‘‘You don’t understand. We’re not local law enforcement here. We’re the federal government. [We're even bigger douchebags than Barney Fife over there].

I’m in agreement with MacK.

I would have had the accident scene photos published and video of the incident uploaded to the newspaper’s website.

“You have to understand sir, it’s ok for a law enforcement official to break the law if he’s having a bad day”

great point you make, Carlos, about the credibility of those in positions of authority.

So the logic is “We get to violate the constitution because we’re cops.” Nice.