• Photographer wins police payout over lawful pics
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Title cut off, it was suppose to say safety. [release]A freelance photographer has won an out-of-court settlement from the Metropolitan Police over pictures taken at a military parade last year. Police had initially told Jules Mattsson (pictured), then 15, that he needed parental permission to photograph police cadets in Romford, Essex. He was eventually arrested for breach of the peace and detained for 15 minutes before being released. Mattsson's lawyers, Bindmans LLP, argued that officers had falsely imprisoned the photographer, assaulted him and breached his 'right to report, under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights 1998'. Mattsson repeatedly told officers that they had no right to stop him taking pictures in a public place. He was told that his photography of cadets taking part in the Armed Forces Day in June 2010 was 'anti-social'. Despite his protests, Mattsson claimed that police took his camera, frogmarched him away from the area and pushed him down some stairs after he refused to give an officer his personal details. The reasons for stopping the photographer appeared to change by the minute, as revealed in Mattsson's conversation with police which he recorded on his mobile phone and uploaded to YouTube afterwards, along with some pictures. At one point an officer told the photographer that police did not need the power of the law to stop him taking pictures. Mattsson - a student working as a photographer in his spare time - was told he was breaching the Terrorism Act, Public Order Act and child protection laws. 'I was quickly and aggressively stopped by one of their [police cadet's] adult officers asking me who I worked for …' the photographer wrote in his blog at the time. 'I responded that I was a freelance and upon being told I needed parental permission to photograph them, I explained this was a public event in a public place and that I didn't for editorial use.' Mattsson was told that his photography presented a danger because, if he continued, he was 'likely to be trampled on by soldiers' from the parade. Speaking today, Mattsson's solicitor Chez Cotton said: 'The police had no right to stop him photographing in a public place. The Inspector attempted to justify his actions in shocking and absurd ways.' In a statement, the Met told Amateur Photographer today: 'We can confirm the MPS Directorate of Legal Services, on behalf of the Commissioner, agreed an out-of-court settlement, as well as paying compensation and meeting legal costs for a 16-year-old male, following an incident where he was prevented by officers taking pictures at the Armed Forces Parade in Romford on 26 June 2010.' A Met spokesman added that the force has issued an apology. The amount of the settlement has not been disclosed. [img]http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/imageBank/j/jules.1.jpg[/img][/release] [B]Source:[/B] [url=http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/Photographer_wins_police_payout_over_lawful_pics_news_310784.html]Link[/url] It literally makes zero sense when they do stuff like this.
Titles a tad bit long. Other then that, yeah it's a strange state of affairs, he is 15 years old, couldn't they just have left him alone? Of course that being said he could have been making a scene, still the response was out of order.
And our fucking terrorism laws strike again. I swear that they're just ways to bag nearly anyone, as opposed to actually stopping terrorism. Even then, the fact that they exist shows that the terorrists won.
[img]http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/imageBank/j/jules.1.jpg[/img] He's got an RPG! Get down!
This behaviour's just picture-perfect, isn't it?
This is BEYOND stupid. God bless Canada, where is only terrorism if you wear a turban.
[quote]'The police had no right to stop him photographing in a public place.[/quote] Woah, you can get payouts for this? Excuse me lads, I'm off to photograph around the Australian experimental nuclear reactor.
[QUOTE=DangerStranger;33701958]This is BEYOND stupid. God bless Canada, where is only terrorism if you wear a turban.[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure racist people like you are the "terrorists" and disgrace Canada's free image.
There's a skyscraper in the city I live in that has some really nice art-deco architecture, but if the security guards inside even see you with a camera within twenty feet of the building they'll come out and try and confiscate your camera and delete the pictures. Which is of course illegal.
Jesus christ, the angle he is standing. I'm pretty sure I'd fall over.
His face is covered by the camera! And lol this is indeed stupid.
[QUOTE=Second-gear-of-mgear;33708046]Jesus christ, the angle he is standing. I'm pretty sure I'd fall over.[/QUOTE] Standard photographer protocol. [IMG]http://11even.net/wp-content/uploads/tourist-vs-art-graduatea.jpg[/IMG]
Upon reading "payout" I'm slightly disappointed I've never been stopped in London when I'm out with my camera.
Judging by the d700 with grip and immense lens he's wielding in that photo, the settlement was for a few £k's
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;33701948][img]http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/imageBank/j/jules.1.jpg[/img] He's got an RPG! Get down![/QUOTE] [img]http://i.imgur.com/2xhXj.jpg[/img] wow i'm bad at gimp
[QUOTE=Contag;33702079]Woah, you can get payouts for this? Excuse me lads, I'm off to photograph around the Australian experimental nuclear reactor.[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;McB9tsabPn0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McB9tsabPn0[/video]
[QUOTE=SwissArmyKnife;33707921]There's a skyscraper in the city I live in that has some really nice art-deco architecture, but if the security guards inside even see you with a camera within twenty feet of the building they'll come out and try and confiscate your camera and delete the pictures. Which is of course illegal.[/QUOTE] can you get some pictures of this building, also, bring lots of friends each with some sort of camera
[QUOTE=GameDev;33710144][img]http://i.imgur.com/2xhXj.jpg[/img] wow i'm bad at gimp[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqNRb-Hx17s[/media] Oh dear.
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