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August 17th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
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Aug 17, 2011
Apparently the police in Long Beach, California, have a policy that says if a police officer determines that a photographer is taking photos of something with “no apparent esthetic value,”they can detain them. This revelation came after photographer Sander Roscoe Wolff was taking the following photo:
The police officer somehow determined that there couldn’t be esthetic value there, and thus, the photographer had to be detained and checked out. The police are defending this policy, saying that while officers don’t have any specific training in what qualifies as “apparent esthetic value,” they will stop anyone photographing things they don’t consider to be something a “regular tourist” would photograph. I actually have to go down to Long Beach next month for a speaking engagement, and I’m now tempted to take a bunch of photographs that have “no apparent esthetic value.”
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How can a cop determine whether photos have no aesthix value? He could be making a vudeo game. The pictures wouod have a lot of value to the photograher.
Apparently moronic police officers are to now be arbiters of aesthetics. I can just see donut munching scum bags in blue in art galleries camping it up with the best of them. LOL!!!!
America is truly screwed.
As a documentary style photographer I have more problems with photographing in the states then I do in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. Amazing. I can understand being routed from government installations in any country but, not in normal public areas.
Well, as I always say, ‘let them try’.
Police Say They Can Detain Photographers If Their Photographs Have ‘No Apparent Esthetic Value’
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“The Police say”?!!! The cops are supposed to be here to protect and serve the community, not harass the hell out of citizens.
POLICE STATE. No doubt.
Bravo2…….out
And the above photo is really good. I would have taken that photo also.
It is good to photograph the obvious aethestic subjects. But, I have always felt that in order to be fair that you have to photograph the beautiful and not beautiful.
It is always good to be polite to the coppers, but, you have to stand your ground.
When it comes to photography in public places I give no quarter and, I have been down this road with the coppers also.
Freedom!
Pathetic. You know the human species is one sad piece of crap when stuff like this exists.
So people who got their jobs because they scored low on an IQ test are to be art critique’s with arrest powers?
That’s disturbing.
thugs =/= artists
in court you should argue, “I have higher taste than the police and was doing a special piece on violence”
maybe that would help?
The name and address of the cop should be posted, published, and hung on every bulletin board.
how can a fat cop know anything about esthetics.