Tag: First Amendment
After publicly declaring they would burn the Confederate and American flags, a group of protesters set both symbols on fire Wednesday evening, but it was the torching of the latter — the Stars and Stripes — that ended up creating a chaotic scene. Just after 7:30PM, about 20 demonstrators, some of whom were from Disarm […]
A Brooklyn federal district court has convicted Ronald Herron aka Ra Diggs for three murders of drug-related associates. Though murders should be punished to the full severity of the law, the court proceeding featured a worrisome implication for First Amendment Rights. Herron, a rapper, has previously been acquitted in state court of one of the murders. The […]
In 2011, a freelance cameraman working for a news outlet began filming an arrest in Long Island, enraging an officer at the scene. Suffolk County Police Sergeant Michael Milton ordered Stringer News Service’s Philip Datz to leave the area or “get locked up,” so the videographer moved about a block away to a location where […]
What with the recent arrest of Shawn Thomas, a photographer who was arrested and allegedly beaten for the non-crime of recording video of a police officer, it’s an opportune time for Photo District News to be releasing their photographer’s guide to the First Amendment. In the video above, National Press Photographers Association general counsel Mickey Osterreicher explains the […]
