News: Man imprisoned for 24 hours for snapping photos of a balloon. In the continuing criminalization of photography, MSNBC reports on a man who was imprisoned for 24 hours and had his name and mug shot broadcast on local news reports for….. taking “artistic photographs” of a balloon and a table at a state fair in Texas.
[Photoethnography.com]
bq. The prosecutor said the system ultimately worked because Vogel was never formally charged.
If the system really worked, the cop who arrested the photographer would have been charged.
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