Carlos Miller - Photography is Not a Crime

19 hours ago

Gingrich Staffer Strikes Photographer's Camera In South Florida

For the second time this month, a member of Newt Gingrich’s campaign assaulted a member of the public for video recording them. The first time took place in New Hampshire just over two weeks ago and resulted in a pair of activists educating police on the right to video record cops inside the lobby of a police station. The second time took place Wednesday in South Florida as Gingrich was [...]

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California Cops Criticized For Killing Man In Incident Caught On Video

A Youtube video that recorded police shooting a man to death outside a fast food restaurant in California is raising all kinds of questions. Police were called to the scene after the man had used a crow-bar like object to shatter the windows at a Carl’s Jr. in Monterey Park. Steven Rodriguez, 22, then stepped inside the restaurant, prompting customers to evacuate. Then he stepped outside [...]

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Woman Who Bullied Videographer Threatened By Internet Bullies

Sarah Duncan of the United Kingdom was just another faceless driver who believed she owned the road. You know the type. You see them everyday as you drive. You may even be even that person on occasion. But what sets Duncan apart was that she stepped out of her car to accost the man who had video recorded her attempting to enter a closed street, trying up traffic for more than a minute in Bath, [...]

2 days ago

Four Conn. Cops Jailed After Arresting Priest For Video Recording Them

Four Connecticut police officers who arrested a priest for video recording them inside a store as they were harassing its owners and occupants were arrested by the FBI on federal civil rights violations today. The indictment, filed last Wednesday, is extremely damning to the East Haven police officers, including the following, which is not the worst of it, but most relevant to this blog: [...]

3 days ago

Massachusetts Man Who Refused To Open Door For Cops Receives Arrest Warrant

Hector Nunez, the Massachusetts man who has had a running dispute with the local police department, was issued an arrest warrant Monday for maintaining a noisy and disorderly house, a summons that obviously stems from the videos he’s been posting on Youtube. Otherwise, Haverhill police would have cited him on the occasions they showed up to his home in response to a neighbor’s [...]

3 days ago

Cop Block Founder Seeking Donations For Upcoming Legal Battle

Despite already facing a two-year jail sentence for two resisting arrest convictions and up to 20 years for three wiretapping charges if convicted on those, Cop Block co-founder Adam “Ademo Freeman” Mueller is still not afraid to stand up to police officers in New Hampshire. In the above video, he is recording a Londonderry police officer in the Manchester airport who tells him it is a [...]

4 days ago

New Jersey Cops Detain Man For Walking Down Street With Cameras

It took Todd J. Dreyer three minutes after he was confronted by three New Jersey police officers to lift his camera to their faces. But once he did, they were on their best behavior. Dreyer was walking along a sidewalk in South River when he was stopped by the cops who began demanding his identification because they apparently found him suspicious because of his cameras. The cops were threatening [...]

4 days ago

Las Vegas Cop Detains Man For Taking Photos

A Las Vegas police officer detained a man for refusing to walk away after taking a photo of a movie set that was completely visible to the public. The man video recorded his interaction, which doesn’t show the officer’s face or name, but allows us to clearly hear him trying to justify giving the photographeran unlawful order. The photographer whose username is 1willwanders on Youtube, [...]

1 week ago

UK Photographer Gets Harrassed For Photography; Funny Exchange

I am about to leave for the Keys for a fun journalistic assignmnet involving free food, booze and lodging, so I don't have much time to flesh this out. My ride is waiting for me downstairs. All I know is a guy named Hamst had a run-in with security guards and defends himself perfectly. And maybe it's just the accents, but their conversation makes me laugh. Read his article here. Please send [...]

1 week ago

Univision Reporters Tell Ron Paul Supporter He Has No Right To Record Them

At first, I sympathized with the Univision news crew when the annoying Ron Paul supporter insisted on sticking his sign in their shot. But that lasted a few seconds until the Univision news videographer, carrying a large camera on his shoulder, informed the Ron Paul supporter that he did not have the right to record them. A woman who apparently also works at Univision told the Ron Paul supporter [...]

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