Paul Detrick: Harassed for Taking Photos

In
October 2009 Shawn Nee, an award-winning photographer, was stopped
by officers from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD)
while taking pictures of turnstiles in the L.A. subway. According
to the officers, Nee was engaged in “suspicious terrorist
activity.” This sort of encounter, says Paul Detrick, in which
local cops harass ordinary citizens engaged in constitutionally
protected behavior, has become disturbingly frequent in cities
nationwide, largely because federal anti-terrorism funding has made
local law enforcement agencies major participants in the War on
Terror.

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