Suit claims police harass journalists and bystanders

[Swede]

New Orleans police officers have engaged in a pattern of unlawfully arresting or harassing journalists and bystanders who tape or photograph them in public, a lawyer for two men suing the city told a federal jury Monday.

A lawsuit, backed by the American Civil Liberties Union, claims police officers violated the constitutional rights of plaintiffs Greg Griffith and Noah Learned, who were arrested at a 2007 Carnival parade.

http://www.wwl.com/Suit-claims-police-harass-journalists-and-bystande/6578605

[slampoet]

1. In Boston the judges allow this to happen legally.

[midnight]

2. But aren't we fighting over in the middle east for freedom, and democracy.

Aren't we being told these people hate us for all our freedoms... Yet taking a public photo of what is going on with our citizens and police is not allowed? Something is wrong?