Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Must be something in that Toledo water. Check out the following story: http://www.toledoblade.com/editorial/news/9d09pix.htm Bryan - -----Original Message----- From: Bryan Caldwell <bcaldwell@softcom.net> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Saturday, April 10, 1999 7:00 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Cops run amok >Don't get the idea that I support what the cops apparently did in this Ohio >situation. I do know that their statement or supposed justification wasn't >reported. Just because they didn't give a statement to the reporter covering >the story doesn't mean that there isn't another side to this - with or >without merit. Whatever happened, the District Attorney considered it had >enough merit to prosecute. > >My last comment was meant to be more general. Yes you have a right to take >photographs on your own property. But it is not a right without limits. You >don't have the right to photograph absolutely anything under any >circumstances. Now, even if your actions are violating the law, that still >doesn't mean that you have no Fourth Amendment protection. But, our Fourth >Amendment protections have been dwindling. > >My guess (and that's all it is) in this Ohio incident, is that courts will >give tremendous latitude to law enforcement in controlling accident or crime >scenes. This is the only thing I can think of that the District Attorney >could be relying on. It would be very interesting to know exactly what >happened. There are certainly incompetents in every profession. I'm not >saying that this is the case here, but that includes reporters. We've read >one brief news item. It could be entirely accurate or there could be much >more to the story. I know what it's like to work on a case and read very, >very distorted coverage of it in the press. > >As for cops having no right to be ignorant - I spend my career attacking >the actions of cops and you'll get no argument from me here <g>. > >Bryan > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net> >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Date: Friday, April 09, 1999 11:22 PM >Subject: Re: [Leica] Cops run amok > > >>At 10:10 PM 4/9/99 -0700, you wrote: >>>It depends on what they're taking pictures of and under what >circumstances. >> >>If they're going to blow the neighborhood up, I guess the cop should take >>the camera away. But he doesn't have to get ignorant. >> >>Otherwise, the cops have no right whatsoever. >> >>Eric Welch >>St. Joseph, MO >>http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch >> >>Logic: The art of being wrong with confidence... >