They bring SWAT teams to peaceful protests nowadays
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Published February 21, 2014 Documentary Photography , Photographers' Rights , Photography , Photojournalism , Police , Police Harassment , Protests , Protests & Rallies , Shawn Nee , Street photography Leave a Comment
Tags: discarted, shawn nee
Charlie Beck as a Regular Cop
Published May 9, 2013 Documentary Photography , LAPD , Los Angeles , Photography , Photojournalism , Police , Protests , Protests & Rallies , Street photography 1 CommentTags: discarted, hollywood, Los Angeles, shawn nee
No Nukes: America’s Dissipating Anti-War Movement
Published May 2, 2013 Documentary Photography , Hollywood , LAPD , Los Angeles , Photography , Photojournalism , Police , Protests , Protests & Rallies , Rally , Shawn Nee 17 CommentsTags: Afghanistan, anti-war, discarted, hollywood, Iraq, no war, Obama, shawn nee
This essay was shot back in 2011, but for some reason it was never published here or anywhere else. Nowadays, there’s not even a whisper from LA’s anti-war movement.
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Published June 11, 2012 Los Angeles , Photography , Protests , Protests & Rallies , Rally Leave a Comment
Tags: discarted, Los Angeles, Occupy LA, OWS, shawn nee
YOU CAN’T ARREST AN IDEA
Published June 9, 2012 Los Angeles , Photography , Protests , Protests & Rallies , Rally Leave a CommentTags: discarted, Los Angeles, Occupy LA, OWS, shawn nee
LA County Sheriff Tells Photographers Not to Photograph Them
Published January 6, 2012 LASD , Los Angeles , Los Angeles County Sheriffs , Photographers' Rights , Photography , Police , Police Harassment , Protests , Protests & Rallies 9 CommentsTags: civil rights, Constitution, first amendment, LA County Sheriffs, Los Angeles, Photographers' Rights, police abuse, Police Harassment
While waiting for OccupyLA members to arrive at the Wilshire/Normandie Metro station in Los Angeles, CA, an LA County Sheriff told two photographers not to photograph them.
At that point, a video camera was turned on to document the encounter, as the photographer defended his constitutional rights to take pictures in public.
The irony of the video is the fact, that at the beginning of the footage, the Sheriffs tell the photographers that photography is not allowed on the Metro (which is quickly rebuked by the photographer). However, five minutes into the video, the sheriff backtracks, and starts saying the opposite—so suddenly photography is allowed on the Metro?
And it is, in this case, for now, simply because the photographer knew his my rights and Metro policy and stood up to these Sheriffs.
This kind of behavior from police officers needs to stop. We can no longer allow them to continue harassing photographers exercising their constitutional rights while using the Metro.
To voice your concerns regarding this officer’s behavior, contact the LA County Sheriffs via this complaint form.
The Hypocrisy of the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority
Published June 8, 2011 Photographers' Rights , Photography , Police , Police Harassment , Protests , Protests & Rallies , Rally Leave a CommentTags: Adam Brodsky, Buffalo, New York, NFTA, Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, Richard Russo
So apparently it’s not a crime for a Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority to tell a member of the public that they’re going to break their fucking face, but it is a crime for a member of the public to yell at an NFTA cop while on a public street during a anti-war protest. And if you do such a thing, you’ll be chased down by NFTA police, assaulted with pepper spray, and unlawfully arrested for practicing your First Amendment rights.
From BuffaloNews.com:
NFTA spokesman Doug Hartmayer said that neither Brodsky nor Russo would be disciplined. NFTA Director Kimberley Minkel defended Brodsky’s spraying of Buckley as “a use [of force] within our guidelines.” She called Brodsky’s actions in the bus terminal episode “a closed case. … We look at each event independently.”
Nothing but the finest heroes at the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority.
A longer version of the video can be viewed here.
SLUT-GASMS
Published June 7, 2011 Photography , Protests , Protests & Rallies 3 CommentsTags: slut walk, Tom Andrews
Whoever knew that slut-gasms would become a word some day, but if the intellectual heavyweight Sarah Palin can invent “refudiate” (spell check is telling me refudiate is misspelled) and get it recognized by the New Oxford American Dictionary, then maybe this guy has a shot, too. Anyway, my friend Tom Andrews took a walk with some self-proclaimed sluts recently and captured their hilarious and clever posters.
Check them out here, here, and here.
LA TACO also covered the protest.
The Fauxtog Does It Again
Published April 4, 2011 Hollywood , LAPD , Los Angeles , Photography , Photojournalism , Protests , Protests & Rallies , Street photography 16 CommentsTags: 20635, Afghanistan, anti-war rally, discarted, Iraq, Military Families Speak Out, Obama, shawn nee
I’ve been called a lot of things in my lifetime, some good and some bad. But after the Espinoza video was released in 2010, a working photographer based in Los Angeles, who I thought was a friend, sent me an email calling me a fauxtog — ouch.
Hate this fauxtog more than the drunkk
So it’s a great feeling when you’re the only photographer to capture the most important moment of the anti-war rally that took place in Hollywood on March 19 — which was the arrests of 11 brave members of Military Families Speak Out for staging a sit-in at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.
Published April 1, 2011 Hollywood , Los Angeles , Protests , Protests & Rallies , Rally , Street photography Leave a Comment
Tags: anti-war, discarted, Obama, shawn nee
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