That is right. Taking a picture can get you arrested. Although the reason given by the police initially was even more insidious:
“’Because you’re a dick,’
Still waiting for them to put cuffs on Cheney if being a dick is illegal.
But wait there is more. Is anyone aware of phone guns? I mean besides on old Get Smart episodes, Q's laboratory, and science fiction movies?
Apparently American police have great fears of them despite their non-existance.
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.
Ahh I see.
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