"Carlos Miller and his blog Photography Is Not A Crime has to be the best blog I have come across to date that documents the ongoing battle that photographers and videographers are facing in increasing numbers."Hodson Report
"Anyone who promises to 'mock, madden and maybe even muckrake' has my attention - especially when he's fighting for my right to plant my sticks wherever the Constitution says I can."Lenslinger
"With a seemingly increasing number of stories of police harassing and arresting photographers making headlines, one man has made it his job to watch the police."B-roll
"This is not a partisan issue. It's a police abuse-of-power issue, and 'security' is no excuse for this sort of totally unacceptable and unconstitutional behavior by officers of the law. Carlos Miller is a great source of information about these unfolding stories."Brendan Loy
I have a bunch of RSS feeds on my smartphone, and I tell ya, this is one i read constantly. Great info, and it is unbelievable what is going on right here in the USA.... Virginia Beach Photo Club
“Photography is not a Crime” is informative, well written and takes no prisoners. The Photojournalist
"If you read enough of his site, you start to understand that Miller has a bit of an ability to instigate. I don't blame him for this. I think that in order for society to progress, authority must continually be challenged. [Post] Modern College Life
The Bad
"This Carlos Miller character is just a jerk, no redeeming social or personal value."Conservative Cave
"You're a good writer, Carlos, but until you're able to recognize and acknowledge your biases, your quests for justice will be seen by most as little more than sour grapes by a man with a chip on his shoulder."South Florida Daily Blog
The Ugly
"You are a cockroach and boil on the ass of journalism in Miami and the sooner that responsible journalists in Miami disown you and repudiate your actions the better.""Hank"
"Your arrogant, crass, thug-like behavior crops up at every turn. One only need to read your blog to see that.
You can’t seem to cover anything without getting into a potentially violent confrontation.""Hank"
Recognition
The South Florida Daily Blog Post of the Month February 2008The South Florida Daily Blog Post of the Month June 2008The South Florida Daily Blog Post of the Month November 2008Some Cranky Guy
Uber Amazing BlogNovember 23rd, 2008
By Carlos Miller
And when Denver police were not arresting journalists for standing on the sidewalk, they were clad in indistinguishable uniforms and masks – sans name tags – and arresting protesters.
In the second video, one of these officers shoves a Code Pink woman to the ground by slamming his baton against her chest. She is less than half his size. Quite a threat, I imagine.
Then another officer comes up from behind another Code Pink woman and arrests her as she is speaking into a camera.
Well all of this was entirely uncalled for. The constitution clearly give the right for people to protest peacefully on public property. The police broke several laws, but there was obviously power behind these mass arrests and police violence. Cops get nervous when they don’t know what to do.
What part of “inalienable rights” do these government thugs not understand? The right of the people to assemble peacefully shall not be infringed. This is an obvious abuse of power and “authority” and a violation of your constitutionally protected rights.
Congrats to these riot cops for validating the protesters existence. They just made that woman’s day, or life. Now she can feel like she “made a difference” while the man kept her down.
The girl getting “Slammed” by the cop was teh fail.
1. The police are in the middle of an arrest
2. The cops are surrounded by a huge crowd
3. The girl, Alicia Forrest, runs up and interferes with the arrest
4. The cop tells her to back off
5. She keeps talking
6. The cop pokes her with the baton, warning her again to back off
7. The grabs at and shoves away the baton and tells the cop to fuck off (never grab a cops weapon… ever… especially during an arrest in the middle of an angry crowd)
8. The cop uses an approved crowd management technique to counteract an upper body attack called a “high block”
9. Girl hits the ground, gets arrested.
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My Story
My name is Carlos Miller and I am a multimedia journalist who was arrested by Miami police after taking photos of them against their wishes, a clear violation of my First Amendment rights.
Since that arrest on Feb. 20th, 2007, I've fought a lengthy battle against the State of Florida to prove my innocence. After going to trial in June 2008, I was acquitted of all charges except resisting arrest without violence. I appealed that conviction pro se, meaning I represented myself, and I won a reversal.
However, I am now fighting another arrest for photographing cops against their wishes. On Memorial Day Weekend 2008, I was arrested on Miami Beach on a single charge of resisting arrest without violence after I photographed a couple of cops against their wishes.
Click here to read more.
Their side of story
Police “escorted defendant to the middle of the street and told him to cross to the sidewalk. Defendant for the fourth time refused the verbal commands and that’s why he was arrested.” Read arrest report.
A legal view
The general rule in the United States is that anyone may take photographs of whatever they want when they are in a public place or places where they have permission to take photographs. Absent a specific legal prohibition such as a statute or ordinance, you are legally entitled to take photographs. Examples of places that are traditionally considered public are streets, sidewalks, and public parks.(more).
SPJ’s protest letter
National leaders of the largest journalism organization in the United States have expressed their disappointment in Miami-Dade County Court Judge Jose L. Fernandez for violating my First Amendment rights.
Fernandez, as I mentioned in a previous post, gave me an extremely harsh sentence and criticized me for having blogged about my case.
Read the press release from the Society of Professional Journalists.
Sarcasm Disclaimer
I am a very sarcastic person in person. And I am probably even more sarcastic in my writing.
But if you’ve never met me, you might not see that sarcasm. After all, sarcasm depends on tone and delivery for pure effectiveness, something that is hard to do with the written word.
So if you are ever offended by something I write, whether you are a conservative, liberal, Catholic, Jew, atheist, American, foreigner, black, white, southerner, yankee, homosexual, straight or whatever, chances are, I am just being sarcastic.
Truth is, I am not a hater. I don’t even hate cops. I just want them to abide by the law.
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Fernandez, as I mentioned in a 
Well all of this was entirely uncalled for. The constitution clearly give the right for people to protest peacefully on public property. The police broke several laws, but there was obviously power behind these mass arrests and police violence. Cops get nervous when they don’t know what to do.
What part of “inalienable rights” do these government thugs not understand? The right of the people to assemble peacefully shall not be infringed. This is an obvious abuse of power and “authority” and a violation of your constitutionally protected rights.
Didn’t you have some great video coverage of the Code Pink protests in Miami?
Congrats to these riot cops for validating the protesters existence. They just made that woman’s day, or life. Now she can feel like she “made a difference” while the man kept her down.
The girl getting “Slammed” by the cop was teh fail.
1. The police are in the middle of an arrest
2. The cops are surrounded by a huge crowd
3. The girl, Alicia Forrest, runs up and interferes with the arrest
4. The cop tells her to back off
5. She keeps talking
6. The cop pokes her with the baton, warning her again to back off
7. The grabs at and shoves away the baton and tells the cop to fuck off (never grab a cops weapon… ever… especially during an arrest in the middle of an angry crowd)
8. The cop uses an approved crowd management technique to counteract an upper body attack called a “high block”
9. Girl hits the ground, gets arrested.
She is teh fail