Photography is not a crime

By Carlos Miller
So far, I rated three of the five Miami cops who arrested me last year on www.ratemycop.com, a Website that was launched last month that allows civilians to rate the cops they encounter. Read the L.A. Daily News article here.
I gave Sgt. Rahming and Officer Kurver the lowest ratings possible because not only […]

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The following is a press release from Miami activist Max Rameau regarding the Liberty City Seven trial.
Greetings:
After several weeks of testimony, the Liberty City 7 retrial is coming to a close. The government put on only a skeletal version of the show they performed during the last unsuccessful trial. So, here is the updated […]

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By Carlos Miller
She weighed less than 100 pounds, but that didn’t stop her from aggressively grabbing my lens when I tried to photograph her.

And the only reason I even tried to photograph her was because she had threatened to call the cops on me after I refused to hand over my driver license.
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By Carlos Miller
I became a poet three years ago when I returned to Miami after a ten-year hiatus and enrolled in a creative writing class at FIU taught by James W. Hall, who has always been one of my favorite writers.
Hall showed me that poetry does not have to be an abstract babble of […]

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The Ten Legal Commandments for photographers comes to us from Photojojo. I would like to send this in a mass email to every single law enforcement agency in the country.
I. Anyone in a public place can take pictures of anything they want. Public places include parks, sidewalks, malls, etc. Malls? Yeah. Even though it’s technically […]

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By Carlos Miller
An editor at the New York Post just informed me that whatever happens to me while on assignment for the Post is only for publication in the Post.
In other words, I was being asked to remove the blog post.
Because this was my first assignment with the New York Post and I have yet […]

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By Carlos Miller
Two Houston brothers who sued the Harris County Sheriff’s Department after they were arrested for photographing and filming deputies against their wishes received a $1.7 million settlement last week.
The Harris County Commission voted unanimously to approve the settlement rather than take a chance with a jury trial, which would have decided the fate […]

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Update: And the winner is ……. guess who? 
By Carlos Miller
Last month’s post where I included a video of me getting surrounded by a group of angry Cuban exiles and assaulted by a Versailles security guard is one of four South Florida blog posts that is in the running for the South Florida Daily Blog “Post […]

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By Carlos Miller
Below is a press release I received about a protest planned Wednesday at 4 p.m. in front of the Miami-Dade School Police Department, 6100 NW 2nd Avenue in Miami.
On Wednesday March 5th, 4:00pm Power U youth and youth from Edison Senior
High School will join together in front of the Miami Dade School […]

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By Carlos Miller
More than 100 Miami Edison High School students called for the arrest of Assistant Principal Javier Perez while boycotting school Monday morning.
Instead of attending class, the students gathered at the park in front of the Little Haiti school.
“These young people are on the front line of a new wave of student activism and […]

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