Photography is not a crime

By Carlos Miller
My new blog is called Magic City Mania and it will be more personalized and localized than my current blog.
Magic City Mania will consists mostly of personal stories growing up in Miami as well as personal reflections as I go about my day in this mad city. My first post starts at the […]

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By Carlos Miller
Even a “known drug dealer” is legally allowed to photograph undercover cops as they serve a search warrant, if he takes the photos from a public space, according to a Florida prosecutor.
The photographer was 20-year-old Randy Sievert of Bradenton, who was arrested in February after he stood on a public road and […]

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By Carlos Miller
A Boston photographer said he was shooting reflections off a window of an unidentifiable building when a voice through a loud speaker ordered him to leave or be shot.
“Leave now or we will shoot you!”
The photo he was taking was a distorted reflection of Boston’s Zakim Bridge.

Daniel Brim told the Bostonist that although […]

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By Carlos Miller
I wasn’t exactly surprised that Internal Affairs cleared the cops who arrested me of any wrongdoing.
But I was surprised that they went as far as interviewing witnesses to the incident and even went as far as obtaining my mug shot from the night of my arrest, which apparently shows my face and neck […]

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By Carlos Miller
The real story is not necessarily that undercover police were photographing students demonstrating at Harvard University last March.
The real story is that undercover police arrested one of the students after she photographed him photographing the student demonstrators.
After all, police officers have as much right to photograph civilians as civilians have to photograph them, […]

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By Carlos Miller
Not much information on this story, but the photographer involved beat police to the scene, which may have ended up in his arrest, according to the AP story, which is posted in its entirety below.
DENVER (AP) — A KDVR-TV executive said the arrest of one of the station’s photographers at the scene […]

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By Carlos Miller
Barry University officials proved to be clueless of the First Amendment when they expelled a student for videotaping a fight on campus.
Javon Jackson was expelled Friday from the Miami college after he recorded a campus brawl involving dozens of students, according to WSVN-TV in Miami.
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By Carlos Miller
A British photographer who was arrested while photographing police two years ago finally was able to access the photos he took that day. Below is one photo that lead to his arrest. Many other photos are posted on this site, along with detailed background about his case.

There was a time when British police […]

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