[Leica] Re: More Police action against a Photographer

[dpost at triad.rr.com (Dan Post)]

Wow! A couple of nit-wit cops violate a citizen's fourth amendment rights-
to wit:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and
effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated,
and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or
affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the
persons or things to be seized." and poor ole Bush catches the flack!
I think with a good lawyer and about six months, and this guy could buy a
new camera outfit... Possibly even a Leica!
(To keep it on topic!)
Dan  (???? ?????? ?? ????? abdul) Post    :o)~


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul T. Winkfield" <paladin007@comcast.net>
To: <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 8:22 PM
Subject: [Leica] Re: More Police action against a Photographer


> Hi guys, this story posted 7/31/04 from another photo newsgroup,
> alt.binaries.photos.nude-art:
>
> The pictures he shot (and posted) are not nude at all, more like street
> photography when cops arrived. Here's his story (today's post he's got a
> lawyer)
> <paul>
>
> I got arrested today....fixing to shoot glamour portfolio, non-nude
> shots at the fountain downtown Baton Rouge. We got to the fountain, two
> models and me, they were both fully dressed...and they got in. One girl
> tried to turn her dress around and a boob popped out. A guy with his wife
> saw it and he threatened to throw my camera gear into the fountain. The
> model in question knew this guy and he works as a bouncer in a strip club.
>
> They left, but evidentally called the cops who came and detained us for
two
> hours waiting to see if what they wanted to do.
>
> They spoke to each girl separately...tried to get them to tell the cops
that
> I was a pedofile...and both girls..one 20 and the other 23 both told them
> that I was a glamour photog and shot them often.
>
> Two hours later, they confiscated my camera, my disk, and my video. I had
no
> tape in the video, and the disk contained two pics...both of the cops...
>
> I cannot take the puritannical swing that Bush is making this country go.
I
> am now totally for Kerry, and somehow we have to stem the tide of the
> ashcroft puritanism that is grabbing hold of the country, and I want to
have
> some rights back again. I am tired of being guilty and having to prove
> myself innocent.
>
> They have no evidence, no witness, and yet..I cannot get my camera back
till
> they disect the equipment. This reeks of nazisim...I am done totally with
> bush..and though I do not like Kerry..I am going to grow to love him..
>
> -- 
> Jon Barry
> Baton Rouge, La
>
>
>
>
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