Reporter Hassled By Union Station Security While Reporting a Story on Photographers Being Hassled at Union Station
Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by bile Categories and Tags: Uncategorized, cameras, crime, fascism, Fox 5, freedom, fucking retarded, liberty, News, police, police state, politics, prohibition, terrorism, Tom Fitzgerald, Union Station, Washington DC, your rightsThis is pretty good: Fox 5’s Tom Fitzgerald decided to do a report on the ongoing harassment of photographers inside D.C.’s busy Union Station, a topic we’ve written about and heard about from our own Flickr contributors many times before. While he was there interviewing Amtrak’s spokesperson on the subject, who in fact told the reporter that photography is absolutely allowed inside the Amtrak portion of the station, a security guard came up to the Fox 5 crew and told them turn their cameras off. You can watch the report here. Interestingly enough, the company that owns the mall area of Union Station never got back to Fox 5 to clarify their policy.
If we can get the photography protesters to be consistent and persistent we could reverse this. It’s more likely to get this than the bikers.
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June 4th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Hmm… I guess I forgot to post my comment the first time.
Anyway, what is the comparison you’re making with critical mass? I’m slightly confused.
June 4th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
As far as I understood the photographers being harassed were part of a larger protest around the nation to take photos in cities where the cops were telling people they couldn’t. If they did it on a regular basis like Critical Mass they’d likely get their way.