MMMM# 188 -- Freedom of The People

     We call it freedom of the press, but everyone has the same rights. And an event in New Jersey illustrates one of those rights rather nicely. A man was harassed by police in Jersey City New Jersey because he was taking pictures from a public sidewalk of the personal vehicles of police officers in a parking lot.
     He had been told a lot of those vehicles had obvious violations, like FOP badges obscuring part of their tags, or windows that were too darkly tinted.
     The cops came out and hassled him, took his camera too. But he's the local director of the ACLU, so a suit is in the works.
     There are rights and freedoms in America, and one of them is not to be harassed when you are taking pictures of a public place on public property.
     And you don't have to be a reporter to exercise that right.
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