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Title: Take a picture in Miami, go to jail
Source:
Boing Boing
URL Source: http://www.boingboing.net/
Published: Mar 1, 2007
Author: Boing Boing
Post Date: 2007-03-01 21:08:04 by Zipporah
Keywords: None
Views: 153
Comments: 9
Miami police didn't want a photojournalist named Carlos Miller taking pictures of them, so they arrested him. Miller tried to explain he wasn’t, but he’d lost his negotiating leverage a few minutes back. He went down hard on one knee. The officers planted (Miller said slammed) his face into the concrete and twisted his wrists and arms behind him to the point of pain. “They were treating me like I was uncontrollable, a meth addict or something,” he said. “I tried to explain, but one of them said, ‘If you don’t shut up, I’m going to tase you.’” Miller, at last, shut up. Take a picture in Miami, go to jail
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Miller said that in the next instant, he was surrounded by the officers. One attempted to trip kick him to fall to the ground, but he was concerned about his expensive camera equipment, so he tried not to fall on his face. He heard one officer say “He’s resisting arrest!”
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#2. To: Zipporah (#0)
I operate on the assumption all police are stupid thugs. So, I wouldn't use a flash at night, as this photographer did, to draw attention to himself.
#3. To: YertleTurtle (#2)
A safe assumption. Once they see you are complient you can measure them for what they are. And then you can start to be in somewhat control, or at least nor percieved as "the bad guys".
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