At 12:22 PM 20-03-00 Monday +0100, Richard wrote:
"Keith (R.K.) Berry" schrieb:
>
> I've had very few experiences of being accosted for photographing in public
> places, the most memorable being when I'd just taken a shot of a window
> cleaner carrying his ladders in the centre of Walsall, Staffordshire. Two
> men seized me by the shoulders, thrust CID warrant cards in my face
What´s CID? Central Intelligence Deficiencies?
They were police detectives!
> and
> asked me why I was taking pictures.
Sounds like former "east block".
Being stopped by the police in the UK on random frisking checks is no
longer a humouress business!. A man was stopped recently by the London
police for no good reason, forced from his car, verbally abused, and
threatened with physical violence is not actually assaulted. When asked
what he had done wrong the man was further abused. When the constable asked
the man who he was the poor fellow opened his trench coat and showed him
his purple, black, and white attire. The constable is reported to have
acted as if he had seen a ghost ............ the constable had just roughed
up the Rt Reverend, The Bishop of Stepney, one of the most prominent
bishops of the Anglican Church. He happened to be the only black man on a
blue ribbon panel of experts looking into racism in the London police!!
jh
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