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This is about crowd control. During the My Lai Massacre protests in Cambridge during the Vietnam war protests, the cops wore masks and covered their badge ID tags with black tape.British bobbies could become off limits to photographers
Tourists better think twice now before snapping pictures of the iconic British bobby.
A new British anti-terrorism law went into effect today that could effectively bar photographers from taking pictures of police or military personnel — a move that prompted some 200 photographers to protest outside of Scotland Yard's headquarters.
It is like hooding the executioner.
This measure would make it illegal, thus any such photographic evidence could not be introduced into a court of law in police brutality cases.
This is all very sinister. It should not be confused with just being stupid.
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