“Photographers being arrested to seize evidence” claim at NUJ Photographers’ Conference
“The relationship between photographers and police
could worsen next month when new laws are introduced that allow for the
arrest and imprisonment of anyone who takes pictures of officers
‘likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of
terrorism’.“
- British Journal Of Photography
This has been on the horizon for some time, as the footage above shows: two kids harassing a senior local resident for breaking a law that – at that time, and at the time of this posting – did not and does not exist.
I feel so much safer, now. Don’t you?
End these demagogic abuses of power. Go to www.TheyWorkForYou.com
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