Comments on: Jury Clears Photographer Who Refused to Stop Photographing an Arrest

By: The United States of Cowards - Wingnut Extreme

The United States of Cowards - Wingnut Extreme — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:52:17 +0000

[...] year old IN THE HEAD because she ran away from a cop when her Mom wanted them to talk with her. – Arresting and beating people for taking photographs of public servants (uniformed police) or landscapes, [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:12:00 +0000

http://www.sportsshooter.com/nickadams

“When I got my cameras back from the police, the two photos that followed were deleted. We ran recovery programs, however, when they shot 12 photos in the police sub-station they over-written the deleted data. Making image recovery impossible.”

I know Nick, they sent the card to sandisk for recoverly but they were unable to recover the photos.

Also, Nick doesn’t delete as he shoots, if you look at that night of photos, there is not one missing file other then the two of the arrest.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:00:00 +0000

As it was posted … ” It would have been interesting to see if the ‘deleted’ pictures were deleted by the police, or the photographer.” Yes – so it would come down to he said / she said kinda thing. What the photographs showed could help in determining who did the deleting (blurry crud vs cops beating someone over the head as examples). At this point in time it might be hard to take to court and win depending on the card, because if the photos were recovered then where is the damages and if not you can’t say who did the deleting – a real “catch 22″.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:34:00 +0000

I always seem to look at these things with a jaundiced eye. It would have been interesting to see if the ‘deleted’ pictures were deleted by the police, or the photographer. If by the police, then shame on them. If by the photographer (as many of us do while shooting, to save card space), then he had a very slick attorney who used the missing pictures as a defense. I do wish someone had brought back the pictures.

By: urothane

urothane — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:33:00 +0000

Doesn’t the deleting of images from his memory card count as destroying evidence? Shouldn’t there be a prosecution of the officers involved if that is the case and nut just a civil trial?
Or is it only destroying evidence if a crime has been committed?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:50:00 +0000

Justice has not yet fully prevailed. The man was prosecuted when the crime was committed by the police. It is an outrage that the police deleted photographs from his camera. For that they should be prosecuted for tampering with evidence. The prosecutor should be drummed out of office for sheer stupidity/corruption in taking this to trial. It is unfortunate that we will have wait for the civil suit to render some semblance of justice now given the complicity of the local prosecutors in this malfeasance.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 16 May 2008 10:39:00 +0000

What does……..when their suit brought forward racist and pornographic emails on his computer……mean?
Found, posted, put there? Brought forward is a totally meaningless expressionin this context I believe.
Jules

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:13:00 +0000

Thanks for the post Thomas. Dugg and blogged here:

http://www.pixelens.com/2008/05/16/jury-clears-photographer-who-refused-to-stop-photographing-an-arrest/

By: Cybasumo

Cybasumo — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:45:00 +0000

lucky people getting $2m just like that! and yeah you’re right with attitude like that of some policemen, im sure they will never get the people’s sympathy or whatever you call it.

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 16 May 2008 05:04:00 +0000

Great article, I would love to see the missing shots. Police are unde rappreciated, but this is why most folks don’t like em much