Posted
5/15/2008 05:27:00 PM
by Douglas
Although I'm sure they hate it, it's still illegal for roughing up someone for taking pictures of
the police.A Galveston County Daily News photographer has been acquitted of interfering with police after a jury heard testimony that police deleted photos from his confiscated camera, an attorney said today.
A six-member jury on Wednesday acquitted photographer Nick Adams on charges he interfered with police while photographing an arrest during Mardi Gras on Feb. 10 last year, said Anthony Griffin, hired by the Daily News to represent Adams.
Adams was hurled to the ground and both of his $4,000 cameras were damaged.
"It's a victory for the First Amendment," Daily News Editor Heber Taylor said. "We just cannot understand why the photographs that were taken that would have shown Nick's relationship to that police line ... disappeared and why those were the only images that disappeared."
Without knowing the particulars of this situation, I have no idea if he "interfered" or not. I just know this act is becoming all too common.