Carlos Miller - Photography is Not a Crime

yesterday

At Least One TSA Screener Knows Photo Policy At Checkpoints

Unlike the last time when I left the TSA photo policy sitting in my printer before leaving to the airport, I made sure to print out 30 copies in case I had to hand them out to several Transportation Security Administration officials at Miami International Airport as I prepared to board a plane to Boston this morning. It turned out, I didn't even have to pull one out because the first TSA screener [...]

yesterday

These Photographer Rights Lens Cloths Will Help Raise Money For My Legal Fees

As I prepare my legal battle against the Miami-Dade Police Department for falsely arresting me and for deleting my footage, I am seeking new ways to raise money for my legal defense fund. I recently entered into a business venture with Keith Robertson, a Vancouver man who runs Zap Rag, a company that sells lens cloths and laminated cards with photo laws printed on them. The items are designed to [...]

2 days ago

Oakland Cops Failing To Activate Body-Mounted Cameras During Protests

Relations between Oakland police and the city’s residents have never been good, which is one reason why the department issued body-mounted cameras to its officers last year. The goal was to increase accountability, which is important for a department that is facing a federal takeover this March. However, the above video, which shows several officers with their body-mounted cameras turned off [...]

5 days ago

Hilarious Spider Prank Turns Even Funnier When Victim Confronts Videographer

A hilarious spider prank on an unsuspecting man in what appears to be a univeristy got him all bent out of shape when he realized he was being video recorded. Somebody from a higher level dangled a spider down in front of his face as he was sitting at a table, working on a computer, causing him to have a minor panic attack. Most of us probably would have reacted the same way. Well, most of us [...]

6 days ago

Florida Deputy Damages Camera Of Man Recording Him

A Florida deputy who did not appreciate being video recorded by a citizen standing on the sidewalk ended up chasing him down, ripping the camera out of his hand and handcuffing him. Pinellas County Sheriff’s deputy Mike Smalley ended up releasing William Kilgore with no charges. But the camera ended up damaged because the flip screen broke off. Kilgore, 21, a member of Orlando Cop Watch and [...]

1 week ago

Chicago Police Accused Of Racially Motivated Arrest On Man Recording Them

The good news is that Chicago police appear to have backed off from using wiretapping charges to arrest people who record them, even though the Draconian Illinois law still exists. The bad news is that they are still forbidding people from recording them. Even worse, they are allowing white people to get off with a warning while arresting and beating black people. At least according to a lawsuit [...]

1 week ago

SD Photog Brutally Attacked For Photographing Discovery Channel Reality Show

Ashi Fachler, who operates the Flickr group “Photography is not a crime”, was brutally attacked after snapping a couple of photos on a Discovery Channel film set last month. At least two men, possibly three, punched him, then stomped and kicked him after he was down. A woman that he had photographed, the third on the right in the picture below, also joined in the attack by [...]

1 week ago

Seattle Cops Exonerated After Caught On Cam Threatening To Make Up Evidence

Seattle police were caught on dash cam telling a pair of innocent robbery suspects that they would "make stuff up" to ensure the charges would stick, even though there was a complete lack of actual evidence. That incident is just small sample of what KOMO-TV plans to eventually release after a lengthy investigation compiled from dash cam videos of its local police force, which always seems one of [...]

1 week ago

Maybe This Is Why Miami-Dade Police Major Nancy Perez Had Me Arrested

There has been a lot of speculation as to why Miami-Dade Major Nancy Perez had me arrested in the aftermath of the Occupy Miami eviction on January 31. Some believe she singled me out because she was familiar with my blog and wanted to teach me a lesson about writing negative (but true) stories about police officers. I’m not sure if she’s that stupid, even though some of her co-workers [...]

1 week ago

Photojournalist Jailed For 48 Hours On No Charges

Four days after I was arrested covering the Occupy Miami eviction, another photojournalist was arrested covering the Occupy DC eviction. I didn’t have a chance to write about him back then as I was too busy trying to retrieve the video footage police deleted from me, but I didn’t want to let it fall through the cracks either. Unlike me, who bonded out of jail the following morning, [...]

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