Photography is not a crime

I was standing on a sidewalk on Miracle Mile Thursday night carrying my Canon 5D with a 50 mm f/1.8 lens, a combination that works excellent in low light situations.
The officer was across the street standing on one of those motor scooters that police have nowadays that enable them to walk their beat without actually […]

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During the last five days, my attorney conducted depositions on two of the five officers who arrested me, allowing them to further contradict themselves as to what actually took place the night of my arrest.
The officers not only contradicted each other in separate depositions, they contradicted what was said in the arrest report.
Meanwhile, my story […]

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An appeals court has ruled against family members of an Oklahoma National Guard member whose open casket was photographed by Harper’s Magazine.

The 2004 funeral of Sgt. Kyle Brinlee at the Pryor High School gymnasium was attended by 1,200 people, including Gov. Brad Henry, who spoke.
“While it could be argued that publication of [the photo] without […]

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You are cordially invited to attend the Photography is a First Amendment Right fund raiser Saturday afternoon in Dania Beach.
A portion of the proceeds will go toward my mounting legal fees as I prove my innocence against the five Miami police officers who arrested me after photographing them against their wishes.
A portion will also go […]

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North Carolina freelance photojournalist Carter Rabil was arrested April 26th after refusing a police order to move back as he was filming an accident scene involving a fatality.

Now the State Bureau of Investigations is investigating the Smithfield Police Department to determine whether they acted improperly.
Rabil’s video shows Smithfield Police Captain Bruce Gentry ordering him “away […]

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All Gabriel Lopez-Bernal needed was for a police officer to harass him and he would have earned the Triple Crown Photo Frisk Award.
After all, the Miami blogger says he was harassed by both a rent-a-cop and a U.S. Marshal on Monday for the sole crime of standing on a public sidewalk and photographing the Federal […]

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Ever since I was charged with nine misdemeanors after photographing police against their wishes, many people I’ve talked to within the legal community have said that it is virtually impossible for a judge to grant a defendant’s request for a deposition if that defendant is facing only misdemeanor charges.
A deposition is a pretrial process that […]

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Why not send them all to Iraq?
If they want to bash the legs of brown children with their clubs for the crime of not walking fast enough, then they should be the ones partaking in our country’s liberation occupation of the Iraqi people.
If they want to disguise themselves in riot gear and unanimously beat, kick […]

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In a disgusting show of force that is reminiscent of how Miami PD acted during the 2003 FTAA meetings, LAPD was caught on video clubbing journalists and shooting non-violent activists with rubber bullets, sending ten people to the hospital, including seven reporters.
The Los Angeles Times reports that several media organizations are weighing their legal options […]

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On May 1st, 2007, a Wackenhut security guard violated my First Amendment rights by denying me the right to take photos from the platform of a Metromover station in downtown Miami.
I am a photojournalist who was photographing the immigration rally marching through downtown that afternoon. A little after 6 p.m., I climbed to the second […]

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