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June 22, 2008
I was taking street photos of my local neighbourhood during my lunch break one day last week and I was accosted by police.
I was actually taking a photo outside my house when a cop demanded to know my identity. His attitude was one of suspicion, which remained in place even when I gave my name and address and pointed to where I lived. He continued to demand proof of my identity I refused.
Photographers taking photographs in public places are clearly deemed to be suspicious by the police who seem it to be linking taking photos to terrorism. Try taking a photo of a central police station to test this.
The police's antagonism and aggression towards the 'suspicious public' suggests that we live in a different world now. The devil is very much in the details of this developing post-constitutional domain of power, governance, surveillance, and control.
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