I've seen it before played out in many youtube videos. Some "punk" kid video tapes a cop and the "heroic" cop punches the guy then cuffs him for being a "hippie with a camera". From then on the comments look mostly like "NAZI PIGS!" or "THEY SHOULD KILLED THAT HIPPIE PUNK!"
Well today I stumbled upon a site called Photography is not a Crime. It's got a lot of stories of people being arrested for simple photography. One story in Carlos Miller's site has a group of high schoolers getting in trouble for disorderly conduct after rapping their orders at a McDonalds.
There are plenty of other stories like that. Some people don't have much of a problem of course, but for people who make a living off of photography, getting man-handled by the police is probably a constant fear. Unfortunately it should be an irrational one but I guess that's not always the case.
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