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photogdave
03-20-2008, 09:25
http://theonlinephotographer.com/the_online_photographer/blog_index.html

Interesting viewing. Revisits the infamous petition of last year.
kully
03-20-2008, 09:44
Interesting, but the camcorder bloke seemed to have gone out to pick an argument to prove his point. I would certainly ask if someone was pointing a camcorder at my face and panning as I walked along the street at that close distance. Then he [camcorder bloke] got hostile from the off and the CSO reacted in kind.

Sure we can photograph in public, but we can also legally fart in public - doesn't make it right to do so in peoples faces...
photogdave
03-20-2008, 09:50
I agree, he did seem to be looking for a fight. Of course all the footage was edited into clips to make the case for the photographer. I wonder if he wasn't filming for a longer time before the CSO approached? I wonder if the photographer behaved even more aggressively but it wasn't shown? I wonder about a lot - it would be interesting to see all the footage uncut!
chikne
03-20-2008, 10:08
Cut or uncut, the footage clearly shows the officer telling the guy filming to shut up. That cop is one hell of a stupid thing...
jamxo
03-20-2008, 10:23
Ahaha, yeah looks like someone isn't get a promotion this year!
Alexander De Vere
03-20-2008, 10:25
We have a phrase here in England to describe individuals like him- a 'Little Hitler'. For some reason we seem to hear this phrase much less than we used to, a bit ironic since we seem to be encountering more and more of these individuals here, both in and out of uniform.

Regards,

Alex.
chambrenoire
03-20-2008, 10:27
The cop can't even speak proper English! He just wanted to excersice power.
Bloody police state manners.
chikne
03-20-2008, 10:50
The cop can't even speak proper English! He just wanted to excersice power.
Bloody police state manners.

Damn right, a while ago I got stopped outside the Chinese embassy in London by a real British cop. That was a complete different experience and I even explained to him how unhappy I was that he said that I could be a terrorist. Nevertheless it was quite a civilized stop and search (for which I didn't get searched) and he thanked me in the end.

But that Asian guy seriously needs to get a life and learn some English!