LAPD Now Arresting Photographers

Globalists Wage War on Free Speech and the Press

Linda West
Infowars.com
September 5, 2012

Despite legal battles raging over 10 years and a noticeable lack of terrorist activity in that time, the LAPD is moving ahead as the first police department in the U.S. to implement Special Order 1, a policy which will allow the police to detain and arrest you if you are taking photos or videotaping certain buildings deemed by them as “suspicious activity”. The problem being of course – what exactly is considered suspicious activity?

Take for instance the innocent man Greggory Moore who was confronted for shooting pictures on his front lawn just because it happened to have the court house in the background. Eight policemen were called by “good citizen spies” to confront and interrogate him while he was held with his hands behind his back then patted down. Other photographers have experienced similar heinous police behavior and even been threatened with being put on the FBI watch list for taking pictures at the airport.

This new police policy will make such instances more common, as they clearly put photography itself under suspicion. It reads:

The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) wrote a letter to the sheriff’s department. “It is one thing for law enforcement to act when there is probable cause,” said Mickey H Osterricher, the association’s general counsel. “It is quite another to abuse that discretion in order to create a climate that chills free speech under the pretext of safety and security.”

LA Sheriff Leroy Baca said, “While taking pictures in itself is not a crime, in our heightened state of national security, a courthouse is a Homeland Security hard target, and as such, supplemental security precautions are in place. We would be remiss in our professional duties if we did not investigate all incidents which appear to be suspicious.”

When asked by an Infowars reporter about the new policy, the commanding officer at LAPD responded, “You really only have to be careful about airports and filming TSA– you can’t do that.” When asked if it was still “legal” to film police on duty doing such despicable things as hitting defenseless protesters, etc., he confirmed that, “Yes you can still video that.”

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