BP, cops detain reporter for taking pictures of oil refinery

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What is this shit? Seriously, BP is definitely trying to cover up their tracks. This is really pissing me off, and it makes me want to fly down to the coast videotaping and photographing everything I see along with hidden video cams of me doing so until I get taken in. It's time for vigilante justice... non-violent of course. Cameras are the new guns!

SOURCE
This story is part of an ongoing collaboration between ProPublica and FRONTLINE (PBS).

A photographer taking pictures for ProPublica was detained Friday while shooting pictures in Texas City, Texas.

The photographer, Lance Rosenfield, said that shortly after arriving in town, he was confronted by a BP security officer, local police and a man who identified himself as an agent of the Department of Homeland Security. He was released after the police reviewed the pictures he had taken on Friday and recorded his date of birth, Social Security number and other personal information.

The police officer then turned that information over to the BP security guard under what he said was standard procedure, according to Rosenfield.

No charges were filed.

[eternusobscurum]

Well, this is actually pretty typical regardless of the company.  No BP conspiracy here, just our wonderful government taking a shit on our freedom.  I have a friend who was "detained" for two hours of questioning after taking MACRO pictures on the side of a back-country road.  Turns out, this was too close to a federal facility for the cops to be comfortable, so they forced her to delete the pictures and made her leave the area after their interrogation.

BTW, for the non-photographers, macro shots are extremely close-up shots.  This friend enjoys taking macros of insects and flowers.  Evidently, those were some highly classified daisies.