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14. I agree about the play on words - it's unnecessarily provocative
Thu Aug 21, 2014, 02:03 PM
Aug 2014

. . . but the rest about it being 'fishy' doesn't make any sense to me.

That particular innuendo needs more than a gut feeling to validate it . . . I'm sure the cops would share your sentiment though.

I'm thinking of the way in which these officers have intimidated innocent protesters and others at the point of these weapons for no reasonable cause - actually threatening their lives in countless cases during the past week and actually assaulting them with those weapons he's photographed - and I'm finding it hard to find one drop of sympathy for them, or any impetus from those words to cast any aspersion at all on the photographer's character.

maybe it's just me . . .

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Wow. Brazen... TeeYiYi Aug 2014 #1
provocative bigtree Aug 2014 #2
Exactly... TeeYiYi Aug 2014 #12
website not innocent in its intent? bigtree Aug 2014 #17
Of course not... TeeYiYi Aug 2014 #26
not defending the tweet, has a hells of photos to his name, listed at his linked name in the op bigtree Aug 2014 #30
There is no doubt he's going to get a visit from the FBI. That is a given. 951-Riverside Aug 2014 #3
Seems like a manufactured incident. How would the officer KNOW a bottle thrown at him was urine? Erose999 Aug 2014 #22
What do you mean by manufactured incident? n/t 951-Riverside Aug 2014 #23
I'm saying that the cops could be making up a story about how this officer was provoked. Erose999 Aug 2014 #25
(Sorry!) And yes I absolutely agree! 951-Riverside Aug 2014 #29
Smell, color, temperature. pintobean Aug 2014 #27
I'm confused. Alerted to what? lunatica Aug 2014 #5
It was probably a play on words... TeeYiYi Aug 2014 #6
Oh! Okay, I get it. lunatica Aug 2014 #8
Radical photography? lunasun Aug 2014 #7
I once caught the ire of an Indiana state cop Boom Sound 416 Aug 2014 #9
I think his play on words is a little disturbing... TeeYiYi Aug 2014 #10
Agreed. He's asking for what he might get. Boom Sound 416 Aug 2014 #11
I agree about the play on words - it's unnecessarily provocative bigtree Aug 2014 #14
Let me clarify... TeeYiYi Aug 2014 #16
wow, you're full of aspersions against this fellow -personal ones. I guess that's fair bigtree Aug 2014 #19
Looks like a Family Reunion-Costume/Fancy Dress (UK term) party!!!! MADem Aug 2014 #4
I always liked "Vicars and Tarts" for fancy dress myself. nt msanthrope Aug 2014 #13
Ferguson Police Department was never handling the Michael Brown protests pintobean Aug 2014 #15
The 'portraits' at his website... TeeYiYi Aug 2014 #18
I know that. pintobean Aug 2014 #20
As an ex-photojournalist I got his pun GliderGuider Aug 2014 #21
I wonder if the officers will withdraw consent for their images bigtree Aug 2014 #24
Withdrawing consent retroactively is legally difficult. GliderGuider Aug 2014 #28
Sorry, I don't get it. sadoldgirl Aug 2014 #31
Photogs are always using that term "shoot" mainer Aug 2014 #32
Mulling this over - not the best thing to post - reconsidered it bigtree Aug 2014 #33
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