WikiLeaks Truck Owner Arrested For Photographing Cops; Image Deleted

[Hissyspit]

Source: Pixiq

April 26, 2012 @ 7:29PM

WikiLeaks Truck Owner Arrested For Photographing Cops; Image Deleted

By Carlos Miller

Metropolitan Transit Authority police arrested a man for photographing them at Penn Station in New York City this afternoon – deleting his photo – before releasing him from a jail cell an hour later. Clark Stoeckley was issued a summons charging him with “engaging in threatening behavior.”

“I was walking through Penn Station and I came across these MTA cops with semi-automatic weapons,” he said in a phone interview with Photography is Not a Crime. “I stopped to take a photo and the cop came up to me and arrested me. I asked, ‘why am I being arrested?’

“’Because you’re a dick,’” the officer responded. While in custody, Stoeckley asked the cop why he felt threatened by a cell phone when he was carrying a semi-automatic gun.

"'Because it could have been a phone gun,'"  the cop responded.



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[dhill926]

1. this shit is out of control......

[ronnie624]

18. What's really odd

is the police state looms ever nearer during a point in history when violent crime is down all over the world.

[harmonicon]

2. Gotta watch out for those phone guns. nt.

[freshwest]

5. Hey, I want one of those.

Beep! Bang!

[ArcticFox]

12. some people have deficient powers of perception

I just wish we'd stop giving so many of them guns and badges

[Comrade Grumpy]

3. What moronic thugs.

[freshwest]

6. Just think if the NYPD chief becomes the new mayor, er, king.

[freshwest]

4. I wonder if they'll arrest all those CCTV cams now. We feel threatened!

[RKP5637]

7. This BS is taking this country in a very bad direction. It reminds me of

checking papers during WWII. (Oops, initially typed WWIII typo, maybe Freudian.)

[PatrynXX]

8. Create an international incident if they

arrest Russian TV.

albeit wonder if forensics can get the image back

[gateley]

9. They view us as the enemy. They don't realize we'll all in this together. nt

[limpyhobbler]

10. So cops can arrest people for no reason, insult them, strip search them, delete their data...

and then just let them go without charges. Yep that's a police state. Bummer.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

15. "You can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride"

They teach pigs that saying in their training.

No charges or conviction but they can ruin your night.

[limpyhobbler]

16. Ruin your night and intimidate others from getting out of line, taking pictures, protesting, etc..

[saras]

22. But it's NOT a police state! umm.. I can't think of a reason, but...

They've crossed every "police state" line that I've drawn.

But it CAN'T be a police state! It CAN'T!

Because I work for them, and don't want to face what I'm doing for a living...


People always leave the last line off of that argument, though.

[caseymoz]

11. NY cops are arrogant goons.

Really, it's time to get them to act like civil servants.

[Angry Dragon]

13. I think the cops today watched too much Get Smart

[G_j]

14. of course once arrested, they could have strip searched him...nt

[99th_Monkey]

17. Can't these assholes be sued?

I would certainly think so.

[countryjake]

19. K&R!

And thanks to Carlos for that report, too!

[solarman350]

20. This is just a warm-up for OWS

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Might be time to invest in a GoPro camera. Mount it where it'll do the job. Then let Anonymous "DOX" the pigs caught on it.Test the legality of that technique.

[dothemath]

27. it is already happening ......

A Smartphone will do the job. Some of them can be programmed to instantly transmit what was just recorded via email to anyone, including YouTube. In addition to the smartphone, button cams, pen cams and others can record the same thing - some with sound.
It is going to get more interesting as time passes.

[Javaman]

21. "the old gun in the phone trick!" Maxwell Smart. nt

[drdtroit]

23. Mentally ill, the whole society is MENTALLY ILL !

[KansDem]

24. “Because you’re a dick”

The can't be grounds for arrest. If it were, several members of the Bush family would be in jail now, not to mention Cheney, FOX News "journalists," and the entire GOP...

[saras]

25. Upload, upload, upload. Learn how now, so it's instinct when you need it.

[Hissyspit]

26. And there are apps for that...

[TheMadMonk]

33. And there are cell phone jammers for THAT. /nt

[saras]

34. Any evidence they're using them? SF pissed off a lot of businesspeople who LIKE their cell phones

[Earth_First]

28. I've got Carlos [Miller] on my FB page, he's fighting this same charge/situation in Miami

love me some Photography Is Not A Crime blogging!

[gratuitous]

29. You can shoot someone and walk free

But taking a picture is "threatening behavior."

[The Wizard]

30. People should start calling

the authorities every time they see someone with a phone and report is as possible terrorist behavior. Terrorists use cell phones, and you just can't be too careful. They could also be phone guns that emit a radioactive death ray.
Mayor Goonberg and his brownshirts have to get sued every time they abuse the authority the people granted them.

[ManiacJoe]

31. That is one way to get rich.

Bummer for the tax payers, but the suit is necessary to get the cops correctly trained.

[fascisthunter]

32. Ja, Amerikkkka lost WWII

it seems after all.

[Lars77]

35. I feel less free i the United States than in Europe

Because of shit like this. Every time you are in an airport, train or bus station or have anything to do with authorities, they feel like power tripping psychopaths.