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A Message to SCD43

If police officer SCD43 from the Met Police is reading, I can confirm that you took my photograph earlier without my consent. You were the guy outside the Houses of Parliament while I was walking from Waterloo to Westminster Central Hall, with the huge purpose-built camera rail (complete with Nikon D2H and Sony compact camcorder). You took a few photos of me I think before I noticed, and then went on to take portraits (latterly with my camera in while I took a picture of you) in a very in-your-face an unapologetic way.

Your colleague and minder GD1 told me you were "recording the events", presumably in conjunction with the Greenpeace protest that was happening next to Big Ben, but I found your behaviour threatening and chilling and did not in any way consent to it. Since you would not talk to me, I asked a local (female) bobby, PC CX698 about you, but she had no idea where you were from, so presumably you're associated with some special unit building dossiers on people associated with dissent - I noticed you and your minder leaving alone in a big van a few minutes later. If you're associating me with the protest you were in error (although I am now protesting, about your chilling behaviour).

Mind you, your behaviour did help the protestors because it made me ask Jamie, one of their orange-jacketed minders, what was happening. The fact all the Greenpeace minders were clearly marked in orange jackets should have given you a hint I was not associated with them, by the way. Anyway, Jamie told me that four people climbed a river crane outside Big Ben around 7:30am this morning to protest about "WMDs" ahead of a vote in Parliament. They had a banner reading "Tony ? WMDs" and I have to say they had some guts to be protesting that way. Unlike the people who behaved with chilling silence, recording the peaceful events in a flak jacket with a heavy minder. I wonder if it was your intent to politicise me, Mr SCD43?
Labels: Police, politics, UK

posted at 3:08 PM (UK) | |

Comments:

Simon,

If you had your camera in such a crowded place as around Parliament, then you're lucky you weren't arrested as a terrorist suspect. Check out the latest ad campaign from the Met - http://gizmonaut.net/blog/uk/mps_ad_campaign_to_arrest_more_innocents.html

To make clear that your protest is a lone protest, you may consider applying this afternoon to protest in Parliament square next Wednesday. - http://www.markthomasinfo.com/demo/default.asp

br -d

# posted by David Mery : 2:18 AM

That is absolutely crazy, and I thought the States were bad.

# posted by Dennis Rowe : 10:35 PM

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That is absolutely crazy, and I thought the States were bad too

# posted by nazliada : 7:33 PM