Police to investigate whether officer threatened to confiscate photographer's camera at crash scene
Among the press types who rushed to West Roxbury yesterday on word of a possibly bad crash involving a police cruiser was Alex Jones, a freelancer who specializes in "spot news" (i.e., things like car crashes). He tweets:
Had a @BostonPolice officer threaten to take my cameras for photographing in a public space today w/o his permission.
Naturally, he took the guy's photo.
BPD Superintendent in Chief Daniel Linskey tweeted this morning he will review the situation.
You may recall how, last summer, a federal appeals court said people have the right to photograph police in public places, as long as they're not interfering with the police - after which the city paid out $170,000 to settle a lawsuit by a lawyer arrested on the Common for photographing officers making an arrest there.
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Picture of the Officer
Ain't Gonna lie, that's a nice pic of the officer. If I was him, i'd be flattered
Manly
He looks all stern and determined.
You think he tweezes his eyebrows?